OR...you can be like me. I have a 1969 VW beetle. I spent two years restoring this car. She and I are one. I can hear, feel, smell, and sense anything wrong with the car. No need for the idiot lights.
And unlike my ex-wife, she won’t leave me for another guy.
Lucky.
I have a 1965 Willys Jeep that I am off and on working with. Every rattle or problem I fix or patch results in a couple more it seems.
I put a new one barrel on it at that helped a lot but it’s got very audible valve problems with #1 cylinder. The others compress test OK. It smokes some and I’m sure annoys the commies next door so it isn’t a total loss.
If anyone wants some laughs, watch and listen.
http://tysonneil.smugmug.com/Cars/1968-Project-Willys-CJ5/i-7DQZ96V
Mine is some kind of oddball in some respects. I think it has some M38 in it. One thing I don’t ever recall seeing on an old model vehicle is a distributor with out a vacuum advance. It simply isn’t there.
I have an aftermarket distributor around that I bought for another long gone Willys. Maybe IF I can be left alone, dig it out and see if it will work.
The killer on the other one was someone had been in that engine before and the distributor and oil pump shaft were keyed one way but I couldn’t see the difference. It was 180 out. I have a feeling I may run into the same thing here.
I am going to have to farm out a rebuild sometime. It’s been decades and where I live and my home and work, not practical at all.
Maybe what time I get around Christmas I can tackle the worn steering box. There is a lot of death wobble. Tires are borderline junk too.
There is the CJ7 that I am finally getting more into and the old raggedy 79 K5 blazer that runs OK.
OR...you can be like me. I have a 1969 VW beetle. I spent two years restoring this car. She and I are one. I can hear, feel, smell, and sense anything wrong with the car. No need for the idiot lights.
And unlike my ex-wife, she won’t leave me for another guy.
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Unless he has a better key..... ba da boom!