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Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws

To: "Deve Krehbiel" <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
From: "JULIE HUBER" <JHUBER@alltel.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:11:54 -0000
how will it be original?
Greg in Fla
-----Original Message-----
From: Deve Krehbiel <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws


>I had a problem with clutchheads on the WHOLE truck.. While disassembling,
>they pretty much all either stripped or broke. I have no respect for the
>clutchhead concept and will not use them at all when reassembling. Even my
>clutchhead screwdrivers are all stripped and broken after using them on one
>truck!
>
>Deve Krehbiel
>Hesston, Kansas
>1950 3100 * 1949 3600 * 1948 4400
>www.speedprint.com/Deves50/index.html
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "tcape" <tcape@weblnk.net>
>To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:54 PM
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
>
>
>> I had a major problem with the clutchhead screws when I started trying to
>> take off the weatherstripping around my driver's side door.  (The '47 AD
>has
>> the weatherstripping held in place by a metal strip....held on with about
>20
>> clutchhead screws!)  Finally resorted to holding an old screwdriver
>against
>> the screw heads and pounding on the screwdriver with a hammer.  As NMJim
>> says, this jars the screws loose.  I then used a small pair of vice-grips
>to
>> turn the screws and take them out.
>> Tom Caperton
>> 47-2nd 3100....in Whiteville, NC
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: New Mexico Jim <ADvent@thuntek.net>
>> Cc: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] clutchhead sizes?
>>
>>
>> > I used a pneumatic chisel at a 45º angle and just using enough pressure
>to
>> keep
>> > the chisel at the head of the clutch head and blipped it a few times
and
>> the
>> > vibrations vibrated the rust and crud loose enough to remove without
>> twisting the
>> > head off or rounding out the clutch head hole. Works pretty good. I did

>it
>> this
>> > way on the trans cover on the floor board of my '50 ½ ton.
>> >
>> > Pastorjon994@cs.com wrote:
>> >
>> > > Don,
>> > >     I did get a clutchhead bit to work on those.  I twisted several
>> screws
>> > > off so be careful. If I could only remember which one that I used.  I
>> think I
>> > > have a 1/8, 3/32, 3/16, 1/4 and 5/16.
>> > >
>> > > Jon Callahan
>> > > '50 3100
>> > > Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
>> > > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
>1959
>> >
>> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>> >
>>
>>
>> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>

oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

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