Yup.
Always started in 2nd unless dragging something heavy or teaching the boys how to drive stick
That's how I learned to drive too - I knew I could put the old GMC into Grandmaw if I was nervous about a start off - like on a hill or something.
Wow, DuckNut - you need to take your expertise to Detroit and save the automotive engineering world. Go tell those bean-counters how it is!
And to give you an idea of just how expensive changes in the automotive world are, I'll tell you a story about taking "New Employee Orientation" at Harley-Davidson in 1993. I sat through a presentation from a design team leader that had just completed a project to move the battery on the Ultra Classic touring motorcycle. For years, it resided behind one of the saddlebags, but in that location, that saddlebag had a bump inside to go around the battery. The idea was to make that saddlebag have the same internal storage capacity as the one on the other side. He talked through the dozens of parts affected and presented the engineering, tooling, and testing costs to make the change. Those costs totaled about $2 million - just to move the battery! Life in the automotive engineering world is so much more complex than first glance...
Trying not to ruin an expensive Ford GT40 upper intake
Pulling vacuum connections out and tapping them 1/8" NPT to help clear tall valve covers and just clean things up.
2 just came right out, one broke off flush and I had to mostly drill it out and knock out what was left with a punch, and 2 got the "I'm done fucking around" big boy slide hammer
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I will post pictures tomorrow night.
