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Author:  _Sean_ [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:55 pm ]
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I've been doing a LOT of reading around here since finding this place and have had very good help/advice so thank you. That said I never said I was a mechanic, just grew up around a bunch - grand-father (dad's dad) had a business rebuilding alternators and starters and he was a mechanic and pilot... All that said, is there a logical reason other than trying to shoot a flame out the back of the exhaust for this?

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Author:  olafla [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:45 pm ]
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Nope. Search youtube for 'car with flamethrowers'. Flamethrowers were THE thing to have at the time, and well, some leadsleaders and other custom drivers actually think it still is... 8)
Olaf
Author:  Fopar [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:27 pm ]
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Might be a plug for an unused O2 sender hole.
Author:  emsvitil [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:43 pm ]
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Might be a plug for an unused O2 sender
If it's an 18mm plug, that's what I'd say it was for..
Author:  _Sean_ [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:43 am ]
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Ah ha! That makes perfect sense. Especially since the hole looks manufactured; i.e. not custom. Thanks for clearing that up.
Author:  oldblue [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:49 am ]
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When someone told the former owner just to "plug up the hole" he did.
Author:  christian_guitar [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:29 am ]
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Wait! Isn't that an early California Clean Burn System?
Author:  _Sean_ [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:38 pm ]
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When someone told the former owner just to "plug up the hole" he did.
Pretty much. After I posted that pic on FB his wife wrote this:
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Mike said he put that there as the original part (I don't remember what it was) was missing and one of the car dealers told him to put a spark plug in to keep it from making noise.
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Wait! Isn't that an early California Clean Burn System?
Not sure - or are you joking?? It's technically a '79 but they must have not changed up the line until after April that year (inside of the door tag...) because the '79 was the last year for this particular truck and was the only year to have dual headlights - mine does not have dual headlights... I'm pretty certain for all intensive purposes it is a '78
Author:  olafla [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:40 pm ]
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_Sean_, sorry about jumping to conclusions, I thought that was an older car... :oops:
Olaf
Author:  _Sean_ [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:31 am ]
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_Sean_, sorry about jumping to conclusions, I thought that was an older car... :oops:
Olaf
I wish. I did have a chance to buy a '56 Chevy steps-side about nine years ago (that actually was running) and the wife talked me out of it. :evil: You live and you learn, or at least hopefully...

On a side note: Dude, the underscores are only in front and behind my name because someone else here got the name first. :lol:
Author:  christian_guitar [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:55 am ]
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Most definitely joking. My brothet has a rat rod with a sparkplug he uses to seal up an emissions connection; even uses a plugwire...you wouldn't believe the questions he gets from the kids today about that plug. The funny part is that they believe him when he tells them about the Ninth Plug Ignition System. :lol:
Author:  _Sean_ [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:12 am ]
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Too funny...
Author:  olafla [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:18 pm ]
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On a side note: Dude, the underscores are only in front and behind my name because someone else here got the name first.
I know, _Sean_, it is just me that got used to writing the usernames as is, it can make a search easier later, but I'll try without: _Sean_
Nope, doesn't work, sorry keyboard stuck to fingers, have to go now...
Author:  _Sean_ [ Sat May 01, 2010 5:18 am ]
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Too funny!
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