Percolation? Heat soak? Don't drive during summer??
Yea i may take laps around the neighborhood. What a jerk of a car today, making it to where I couldn't test anything with it not dying...
My vacuum guage also has a fuel pressure guage integrated into it, but I need to get an adaptor to screw it into my fuel line.
LOL...all these cars are jerks!! They will throw you curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs.
It’s just the way it is. Most of this stuff is 50 years old or close to it. These cars were used for daily transportation, and on the weekends they pulled boat trailers, camper trailers, motorcycle trailers...just about anything. So they got used. Hard.
And then you have people working on them, which did more damage to these cars than anything else. One of the nightmares I always see when looking at this stuff since I was a kid is the electrical nightmares.
Blockheaded dolts installing stereos, cutting wiring, splicing this onto that, using those frigging WIRE NUTS (I hate those things with a passion...they have no place on a car) and stuff like that. Just ruined the car, unless you want to re-wire the entire car. Of course, the seller never wants to come down on price because they are sitting on gold.
You’ll get it. These things are kind of a never ending project. There is always something to tinker with or improve.
I’ll never forget in the fall of 1979 a couple of guys showed up at my auto shop class. They were from whatever they called the auto repair school down in Phoenix at the time. I think it’s UTI now, but I think it was something different then.
Anyway, they came in and said in in 10 years no one would work on their own cars anymore, not even change their oil. That cars would become too “sophisticated” for the vast majority of the public to work on.
That the future was paved with gold if you just went to their school and learned to work on the new junk.
Sadly, they weren’t wrong. If nothing else, making cars today the way they are, stops the these butchers from wrecking them.
