Quite simple: they're cool. ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Simmons" <tasimmons@cbnn.net>
To: "Deve Krehbiel" <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>; "JULIE HUBER"
<JHUBER@alltel.net>
Cc: "oltrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
> Maybe I'm just lucky but I have never had any major problems removing
> clutchhead screws from my truck! Of course I live in Eastern
Washington(very
> dry-not prone to rust area). Does anyone know the reasoning behind GM
using
> those instead of slotted or phillips screws?
> Don Simmons
> 1953 3100
> 1962 C10 etc.
> Othello,Washington
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deve Krehbiel" <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
> To: "JULIE HUBER" <JHUBER@alltel.net>
> Cc: "oltrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
>
>
> > I just feel that a person has to strike a balance between restoration
and
> > preservation. To do a proper restore job, one must keep preservation in
> mind
> > as well so when I think of my truck and where it will be in another 50
> > years, certain items that were stock just dont lend themselves to
> > practicality when all things are considered. Adding weld nuts where
sheet
> > metal screws pierced and warbled the skin of the firewall, stainless
steel
> > brake lines with Cat 5 fluid, a 12 volt system disguised to look like 6
> > volts, etc.. etc.. make the truck worth more than being a hardhead and
> > sticking with things that have proven over the years to be a bad idea.
> > Clutch head screws lasted how long? Where are they now? Our ancestors
may
> > have been geniuses in most aspects of the AD, but they werent perfect.
By
> > ensuring that fittings and misc hardware are state of the art, we are
> > ensuring our restore jobs will be preserved for just that much longer.
> >
> > If it would make the buyer of my truck (someday) feel better, I will
> include
> > a bag of clutchhead screws (a complete set) for posterity. I got tons of
> > them.. all stripped out or rusted beyond belief.
> >
> > To answer your question in short.. it wont be! ;)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "JULIE HUBER" <JHUBER@ALLTEL.NET>
> > To: "Deve Krehbiel" <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
> > Cc: "oltrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 4:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Removing clutchhead screws
> >
> >
> > > 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
>
> 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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