Media blasting harmful on intakes?

[Duke W.]

Re: Bon-Ami

Are you kidding, Joe. Bon-Ami was available from GM?! For what purpose?
Not engine break-in, I hope!

Duke

[Jim T.]

Re: Bon-Ami

I believe it was recommended to clean windshields.

[Joe L.]

Re: Bon-Ami

Jim and Duke----

Yes, windshield and glass cleaning was the category of maintenence product which the GM-available Bon Ami was specified for. It was NOT specified as an engine additive or maintenence product.

Bon Ami works very well for window cleaning. It will remove ALL TRACES of road film and other hard-to-remove film from windshields. I have memory of my father using it on the windshield of our 1952 Chevrolet in the driveway of our home at 20 Clovelly Street in Lynn, MA. We moved from there when I was 5 years old so the car must have been almost new. I still use it today. But, NOT for engines.

[Joe L.]

Correction

It was 22 Clovelly Street, NOT 20 Clovelly Street. I got confused with the address of the house we moved to. That one was 20 Johnson Terrace in Rockland, MA. My father used the Bon Ami in the driveway of that house, too, on our new 1955 Chevrolet 210 2 door sedan with 6 cylinder and 3 speed on the column. My family left there when my father was transferred and drove the 1955 Chevrolet to California when I was 10.

I still remember the day when we picked up the new, light blue 1955 Chevrolet at Commonwealth Chevrolet in Boston. There were big advertising displays in the showroom for the 1955 Chevrolet Corvette and a display for the new V-8 engine, complete with moving parts. I asked my father why we weren't getting the V-8 engine in our car. He told me that it was new and unproven and would probably never be successful. I still wanted to get it, but he said no. My father was right about a lot of things, but, as it turned out, not this time.

[Duke W.]

Sooner or later, we all become our fathers

Joe - my dad bought a '54 Pontiac with the old flathead straight eight for the same reason. He didn't trust the new OHV V-8 that he knew was on deck for
'55, but he had a reason to be concerned because his '49 Fleetwood, which was Cadillac's first OHV V-8 was an oil burner, and he had to have the engine replaced, but it took a letter to GM's president to get the job done.

When it came time to buy a '59 Pontiac the choice was a Bonneville wagon. I lobbied hard for the tripower engine, but dad said it was "too complicated".
He was willing to buy it with the standard three speed column shift (a four-speed on the floor was not available from Pontiac in '59), but being as how the Bonneville was to be primarily my mother's car she adamantly refused to drive it unless it had an automatic.

Nowadays I look at new cars and see them as four-wheeled local area networks, that will require hundreds of dollars in manuals and thousands of dollars in equipment to work on them. Conversely, my vintage cars are simple, and I know how to work on them. It's too bad I can't buy a new "basic" car with a carburetor and point ignition, so I guess I'll just have to keep driving the old crocks that are not "too complicated" for me.

I now know that I have become my father.

Duke

[Patrick H.]

Jack Humphrey's Cleaning Method

Hey Jack,

Any chance we get to hear the story about cleaning aluminum in the shower? Some stories from this Board one doesn't forget...

Patrick

[Juliet P.]

Re: Jack Humphrey's Cleaning Method

Hey Jack - are you going to make us all go archive hunting? ~Juliet

[Patrick H.]

Here it is.

For those of us who have been on this Board since the very beginning, we've read some interesting things...

Thanks, Jack. Hope you understand it's all in fun. Of course, its a way of presenting another method of cleaning.

Patrick


Jack's Intake Cleaning Method

[Jack H.]

Like others....

appearing before House and Senate sub-committees these days, "On advice from counsel, I decline to testify based upon the rights afforded me by the First Amendment to the US Constitution....

[Juliet P.]

WHat!?!? No pictures???

You guys crack me up.... Too bad they don't allow photos on this board anymore or I'd ask for photos to go along with the procedure. ~Juliet

[Terry M.]

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[Roberto L.]

Awarded Cleaning Method of the Year *NM*

[John W.]

Re: Which amendment? 5th. *TL*

Terry,

The editor picked this up pretty quick. The First ammendment gives you the right to talk. It's the 5th that gives you the right to shut up.

[Patrick H.]

No Thanks. Not for me. *NM*

[Terry M.]

Which amendment? amended *TL*

Jack is sometimes subtle.

Patrick I missed this the first time around and I heartily thank you for bringing it back - made my day. ROTFLMAO

Juliet - on this of all days??