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[greatbear]

Catalogs. I got a million of 'em. I receive catalogs from companies and outfits I have never heard of nor done business with. Everything imaginable it seems. If one were to gauge who I am by my favorite catalog, they'd either know me very well or think I am some sort of weirdo. Where some people's favorite wishbook might be from Sears, Neiman-Marcus, Williams-Sonoma, Cabelas, etc, mine happens to be from Grainger:



Grainger is an industrial supplier. Everything imaginable, from air compressors, pumps, motors, plumbing, tools, electrical, paint, etc. Their catalog is a six pound plus tome of more than 4000 pages. Over the years, I have bought countless things for the garage, home, workshop, as well as for work and my garage sidebusiness. I find it slightly odd that me stepping into a Grainger branch is not far removed from that Shoes video that infiltrated Livejournaldom. Is it so wrong that an impulse purchase might need a forklift?

What's your favorite 'wishbook'?

Comments

[sparkygearhead.livejournal.com]

I'm smacking my head for not thinking about this right off. My two favorite catalogs of all time have to be Summit Racing and Jegs. I couldn't have a decent crap without sitting down with one of those.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I havent gotten anything from Jegs in a while, so the catalogs dont show up as frequently. Summit sent a new book earlier, and today had a supplement in the mail.

[sparkygearhead.livejournal.com]

I've been scouring the catalogs, but I can't find what I need. Maybe you'll know someplace I can look. I need a right-angle adapter to a 700-R4 speedometer gear drive. The tranny is so tightly wedged in the transmission tunnel that the cable has to make an unholy bend where it screws into the casing. This puts undue stress on the cable and breaks it.

Any ideas?

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I know they exist, but for the life of me I cant recall any source for them. In a similar situation few years back, I used a ratio converter to offset the cable for the same reason. I had to put the 'wrong' speedo gear in the tranny to make up for the difference the converter added. The converter was something I had laying around, and it allowed the cable to come in just a bit lower to clear some bump or reinforcement in the trans tunnel.

If I am not mistaken, there are also variants of output shaft housings for that trans that can be swapped to put the speedo gear in a different location, but dont hold me to that.