From: paisley@cme.nist.gov (Scotty Paisley)
Isn't is amazing what a broken part will do to motivate ya to work on
the car? The only thing I can think to give ya more motivation is to
make your LBC your daily driver.
Not only your daily driver, but your only driver. I am in that
situation, and I am now fanatical about adhering to the maintenance
schedule. I am slowly getting the car into reliable condition, but it
is the things I don't think about that strand me. Last time the
culprit was the throttle cable. I was sitting at a traffic light.
Light turned green, I press the gas pedal, gas pedal goes straight to
floor with no accompanying increase in engine speed. I don't remember
anything in the manual about replacing throttle cables every 100,000
miles. Opened the hood... gee that cable looks awfully small. Looks
like a brake cable for a bicycle. It done broke in half. And it's
snowing, and I am in the left turn lane. Fortunately Linda was in the
car behind me, and she pushed me into a parking lot.
Next day I come equipped with a new cable and new return springs
(because springs are cheap and I have no idea how old these are.
Turns out they were pretty weak.)
My next project is... fix the hole in the top of the gas tank.
James
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