Re: [Amc-list] Steering box changes, early 60s to later

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm actually looking for a copy of "Zen and the art of maintainign one position on top of thine bicycle whilst travelling rapidly down a steep declining rough terrained area".

Or subtitled "Oh $#!T call 911 I hurt myself"!!!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> I loaned my copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> Maintenance to my sons.   I gotta get it back.  It's
> time for another read.
> 
> Dad (I mean Joe Fulton
> Salinas, CA
> 
> 
> --- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Kelly Hardie wrote:
> > 
> > > You just reminded me of a favorite passage in Zen
> > and the Art of
> > > Motorcycle Maintenance, when Phaedrus cuts up an
> > aluminum beer can for
> > > shim stock to secure the handlebars on his buddy's
> > BMW, and Phaedrus'
> > > phriend phreaks out  cause he sees the material
> > for what it IS (an old
> > > Coors can) rather than for what it DOES...
> > 
> > ...which neatly sums up the difference between
> > people who make
> > things, and people who don't.
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > Kelly
> > >
> > > Tom Jennings wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Did/does someone not make shims? I'd swear I'd
> > seen them somewhere.
> > >>> I had a buddy who made his for a Ford F-250 gear
> > swap. He used thin steel stock wrapped around the
> > stud and cranked it down tight. It never wore out in
> > the several years I knew of it being setup that way.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> In fact, the more I think of it, .010 shim stock
> > carefully
> > >> wrapped without wrinkling, cut for zero overlap
> > on the final
> > >> turn, then trimmed, would probably be 100% safe
> > and wouldn't
> > >> change torque. There would be some "air space"
> > but since it's
> > >> a taper that would compress out just fine. It'd
> > be disposable
> > >> basically. Somewhat kludgey but a safe, reliable
> > and repeatable
> > >> kludge.
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