Broke down yesterday. Car refused to do 55, fuel starvation. Had just fueled up, got about ten miles and it started to splutter. Pulled the fuel filter off and it was blocked solid with refinery sand. Removed the filter and replaced it with a barbed fitting in the AutoZone parking lot and that fixed...

paulplom wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:01 pm I know but everyone else is using Americanisms.

I have an excuse.

Mardi Gras parade today along the highway here. Parked up ad hoc just as the road was being closed. 20240204_120831.jpg There was a marching band. 20240204_130959.jpg Floats, music, that's the king and queen of the parade on top of the yellow float. 20240204_132040.jpg The car gathered many beads. 2...

Tonight at the mall.

The factory gaps there are utterly shit and got worse as the tooling wore out. You've made it better than they did new. That gap was just filled heavily and painted.

The car was stroppy today and didn't want to run. I adjusted the auto choke and it started up but I think it needed fuel. Also, randomly today, as I was driving, the speedometer quit working. That's great. Phil

I'd love an old American car or truck. It's just I don't have the undercover storage for one though due to their size. They do sit outside well, so long as all the drain points are kept clear. Unless you get the full cab long bed version, most American pick-ups from the 60's and 70"s are no wo...

Nope, today's now up to 25c, and windy as heck.
Dog agrees.

The radio had become all crackles and distortion, so I fought with it and won, liberating it from behind the dash. 20240122_174910.jpg I think the damp had gotten into the connections, cleaning the pins up got it sounding good again. 20240122_180141.jpg Sat it on the bench for an hour. 20240122_1903...

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:28 am How cold does it get there Phil?

Average annual low/high is 45/95f (7/35c) with spikes of hot and cold, down to about -5c and as high as 40c.

This recent cold weather is transient, it blew in from up north. Today is 19c.