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The car is due for an oil change and the radiator is leaking so I figured I would get after it.
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The engine has not sounded right since I adjusted the valves. I already found one exhaust leak, which helped, but it still sounds wrong. Time to bite the bullet and figure out what is wrong.
Continue readingI was taking my neighbor for a ride and the door did not want to latch. The problem was not hard to find.
Since I did the valve adjustment the car has sounded like it has an exhaust leak. I thought it was the manifold gasket. But I was only 1/2 right. After driving the car for a while I spotted this:
My plan back when I did the wiring last year was to put a set of Unity vintage fog lights on the car for front turn signals. But I waited too long and Unity discontinued their vintage line. They make the same lights for 80+ years and I miss out by 6 months.
Continue readingBack when I did the new wiring harness I said that everything was working perfectly. It turns out that was not correct. I did not realize at the time that the new turn signal switch had a light in the handle that is supposed to blink when the signals are on. When I discovered this, I found the light was on dimly when the turn signals are off. The light blinked (dimly) when the turn signals were on. My first thought was a bad ground, so I tested that and it was fine. So today I decided to try and figure out what is going on here.
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