Im under 40, and as you saw in some of my postings in the “let’s make a deal on Oilburners thread” outside of this forum. I’m “old” with the IDIs. Lots of crowd under 30 and even under 20. As @IDIBRONCO mentioned the owner of CDD is younger than me.
I hope you get everything figured out, my friend. We'll all be decent mechanics one day won't we? Always something to fix and learn.
Oh yeah, it's pretty much figured out. Gotta hammer out a couple more details and put it back together. And as ive said before, I exclusively drive old vehicles, yes I got to work on them but I enjoy it and it's cheaper than a car payment and the only tow truck that comes in my yard belongs to me.
If you never put an IDI back together from bare block before, the one tool I would invest in the better quality version of is the piston ring compressor. I used the thin cheap sheet metal one last time and it was a pain.
I think that we all do. Actually it would be a vacuum of all people who turn wrenches. It may seem like there's a lot of us (everyone on this forum), but we're really just a small part of a small community of people. I do have a friend who just recently rebuilt an engine with his 16 year old son. They put it in a 1967 Cougar. Next a AOD transmission is going in so it will be better to drive on the highway than it is now. Then they'll do the body work and paint it. There is still a little bit of hope out there.
It's like when you notice someone's obscure last name and comment that is your mother's maiden name, and they say, "ha small world" but your in the same county. So yeah, obviously we'll find young people here.
Over 40 crowd on OB - can’t imagine there’s many young folks that are into these engines
