Given that beer is an acquired taste and vegemite is from the bottom of the beer barrel, then, yes, vegemite would be an acquired taste itself. My girlfriend brought me a pack of vegemite back from h
This roadster keeps getting bumped down in priority on the list of projects, so I need to find it a loving home. It runs and drives, although it's not currently tagged for the street and needs a new
once right? Exchange rate is $0.75 US to the Australian dollar. Live it up. First thing you do once you arrive... hit the magazine stand in the airport and buy a few car mags. You'll be drooling ove
Okay, I feel silly asking this, but how the heck does one remove the fuel pump from a 1600 without lifting the engine? I take the nuts off and the thing slides back until it hits the frame, then no m
That's me at the back of the class, staring out the window. At least I know I'm not the only one who was puzzled by the pump. Shoving the engine over by the valve cover gave me enough clearance. The
Okay, this was not my intention. As I remounted the mechanical pump, I could feel that it wasn't right. Did I take it back out and try again? No, of course not! Even as I continued to think it wasn't
Now that I've finally getting fuel to the carbs (had to bake a hard line on my barbecue this morning to free up the gunk that was clogging it), I see that I'm missing one of the damper rods that thre
I've been working on getting a '70 1600 running that was missing a damper and cap from one of the carbs. Joe Russo was kind enough to fish one out of his stash to sent me but, after installing it, th
Okay, answering my own questions here. After posting, I had a few ideas on how to debug things. First, I figured out that if I don't thread the longer rod all the way in so that it's effectively the
Of course they do. Like I said in my earlier post, when I switch dampers back and forth between the carbs, the behavior moves with the damper. That would indicate the difference in the damper length
If you're coming through Tucson, I can point you towards a station with 100 == This past April I made the trip from ATL to PHX. I spent two weeks there. After the first fill up in PHX, at a Circle K,
Every time I have blasting done, it's been a pain in the ass to get all the particles out of the crevices. You never get all the debris and end up either painting over it or having it blow out onto y