1931 Chevy Coupe No Vice Grip Needed. This is a nice old car скачать в хорошем качестве

1931 Chevy Coupe No Vice Grip Needed. This is a nice old car

A friend told me about this 1931 Chevrolet Coupe that was for sale and said I should go look at it. So Cousin Paul and I hooked a trailer to his truck and went to look at the vintage Chevy. We met the owners Pattie and Gary at their house in McMinnville Oregon. The car was stored inside for the last 20 years but had not been started for three years and the battery was mostly dead. We were unsure if the fuel was bad. However, Gary said he had put some fuel stabilizer in the tank. With some starting fluid and a roll start the old Chevy started right up. The old Chevrolet Stovebolt inline 6 cylinder engine roared to life. I was very surprised how well the clutch and brakes worked on a car that has sat for so many years. There aren’t many engines that stay in production for 70 years. Even the venerable small block Chevy V8 only lasted 48 years before it was discontinued in America – although it is still made in Mexico 62 years after its introduction. But the basic Chevy overhead valve inline six-cylinder engine was first introduced in 1929 and remained in active production until 2001, for a total production run of 72 years.The earliest of these engines were known as “stovebolt” sixes, because the bolts that held the engine together resembled the bolts that were commonly used to assemble woodstoves. The new 1929 engine displaced 3.2-liters (194 cubic inches) and made 50 horsepower. While lubrication for the connecting rod bearings was by the traditional “splash” method of dragging the crank through the oil in the pan, the engine offered pressurized lubrication for the three main bearings, and a pushrod-actuated overhead valve design. Compression was low, at 5:1, and the cast-iron pistons were of course quite heavy.