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Originally Posted by gwood View Post
So it fills your tire with gasoline vapor?
No,
The air going into the tire was air from the engine compartment, but not out of the cylinder, if I remember correctly. As the engine ran, you could hear the thing sucking air.
I do remember it seemed to take a heck of a long time to pump up a hay wagon tire with one, using a 250 cu in Chev 6. (Faster than using the hand pump, though!)

My big score from an estate sale was a jointer plane (think hand plane about 18 inches long, for making edge to edge joints). It needed a plane iron, so I got it for about $5. I figured the plane iron was going to be pricey, but the local hardware store had one for $6.95. It had been on the shelf for about ten years.

My other score was a painting I bought for .25 when I was a kid. Turned out to be a sepia water color by a regionally known artist and was worth about $50 a decade ago.
I must have had better taste then.

Oh, one thing about the guage package: In a '68 Chev half ton with the 250 cu in 6, a three on the tree and a 4:10 (I think) rear end, if you were cruising at 70 mph, you could actually watch the gas guage drop!
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Last edited by oldE; 02-10-2014 at 08:49 AM..
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