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Love his, lo-tech but refined where it counts, approach. Also enjoy his photography.

The stuff he finds at 1h30m and onward ...

Cats at 1h57m, in case you want to skip the boring car stuff.

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  • Turn on subtitles/CC's if you'd like explanations on what I'm doing throughout the video.
  • This is a 1948 Chevrolet Thriftmaster 5-window pickup. In the 1990's it was driven up from the cities and parked in this storage shed where it then sat until now. The owner, who learned to drive in this truck, reached out to me to see if I'd be interested in getting running and driving again.
Love his, lo-tech but refined where it counts, approach. Also enjoy his photography. The stuff he finds at 1h30m and onward ... Cats at 1h57m, in case you want to skip the boring car stuff. Description: >- Turn on subtitles/CC's if you'd like explanations on what I'm doing throughout the video. - This is a 1948 Chevrolet Thriftmaster 5-window pickup. In the 1990's it was driven up from the cities and parked in this storage shed where it then sat until now. The owner, who learned to drive in this truck, reached out to me to see if I'd be interested in getting running and driving again.
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[–] • 2 pts

Maybe @morbo knows the life of like 80w gear oil from the 60’s but I don’t see any reason to service it.

While I used to work with petrochemical engineers, I didn't find their particular engineering field was my speed. I did enjoy engineered resins and polymer engineering, but I was already doing software development for my career after leaving EE and the power industry. My knowledge of petrochemical products and their properties is weak. But, my educated guess is that 80w lubricants in a closed system would have a long lifetime if oxygen and moisture do not infiltrate the system. A heavily greased rear end that's never been cracked open probably has a long service life due to the system being mechanically simple and forgiving. A "pumpkin" from that time would be quite simplistic in that it was just a few gears rather than a modern limited-slip differential with more moving parts in it. Simplicity seems to be the key here for longevity. It's not a high precision component and that works in its favor for sure.

[–] • 2 pts

Pumpkins of the time were not Swiss watches. That’s for sure!