I used to carry a spare quart of oil and a can of brake fluid in the spare tire well. The brake fluid tipped over at some point and a couple of drops of juice leaked out the top. The new paint I had sprayed in there was ruined. Turned to goop and wiped off with the brake fluid...
Note: I apologize in advance for the pictures in this post. I didn't have a whole lot of day light left when I started this process and couldn't get very good before and after pictures. Decided to go ahead and post this up anyway for posterity. So, there are lots of whiskey de...
I took a road trip to my parents' house a couple of hours away. Well, normally it's a couple of hours away on the highway at modern car speeds. I plugged their address into Google Maps and enabled the Avoid Highways option, so it turned into a 4 1/2 hour trip instead. It was a...
The last couple of times I went out beetlebuggin, there was a terrible clattering coming from under the car. It definitely sounded like sheet metal rattling and would only happen when going over an especially rough patch in the road, like railroad crossings. I still don't have...
I ordered a couple of tools from Amazon to help extract that rusty mystery oil filter canister. (Amazon link) The ratcheting three prong thing gripped really well, but was just crushing the end of the canister and was starting to twist the canister, so I switched to the pliers...
Back onto the headlight bezel thing for a minute. The new outer bulb brackets are the same size as the old brackets, so that's not the problem. It looks like the bulbs are just sitting off center in the bucket. Kicking that can on down the road for another day. There is this t...
Back at it this weekend. I've got replacement headlight buckets to be mounted. Rusty screws It's nasty back in there Brake Kleened Tight fit on that bottom mounting screw Broken plastic Hella SB12 That's factree. Another tight fit on the bottom mounting screw You can tell in t...
As I was poking around, I finally found an actual rust hole. If this is as bad as it gets, then the old girl is doing pretty OK. This is at the top left corner above the engine bay, behind the air vent louvers. Not even sure how you would get up in there to fix it. Next, the h...
The car didn't come with a spare tire, but did come with four "spare" rims and tires, the Empi wheels shown in the listing pictures. I had been carrying one of those wheels in the front trunk, but had to lay it down horizontally on top of the gas tank. The tires that were moun...
The steering wheel is in pretty good shape, considering the age, but there are some cracks that I couldn't stop absentmindedly picking at while driving. Shopped around online and found the old school lace up vinyl steering wheel cover (Amazon link). It was so cheap and chintzy...