Drove her 8 miles from storage to my parents house, even with the rear carburetor not quite up to snuff she cruised along smoothly. I was a bit worried about the tires and brakes for the first mile. Actually I still am worried about the tires and brakes but it was overheating a bit on [...]
After a couple weeks of cleaning, rebuilding, and sitting on these carburetors I decided to take them out to the car and give them a shot. I was optimistic – they were clean inside and out with fresh rubber parts and clean metal. I even cleaned the damn screws. I obsessed a little. I drove [...]
Put the new sparkplug wires I got from NAPA on the other night. Autozone and Advance didn’t have them and I tried Napa as a fallback – but not only did they have the right ones but I spent half an hour talking with the guy at the counter about them. He picked out some [...]
Got out to the car today for the first time, went to change the oil and found that I had the wrong size sockets. Getting under the car was a squeeze and I’m a skinny guy. This sort of thing will be easier once we can actually drive it up on ramps. Largest socket I [...]
