MackTheFinger

Transporters are the real VW experience! Enjoyable to drive, easy to work on, incredibly versatile vehicles.

I was a VW freak for a long time and while I haven't really been involved don't know that I'm over it yet. Same with Harleys although that involvement is nearly impossible to escape. Part of it's the machine, part of it's social even though those are two glaringly disparate groups. Somehow they both have farhrvergnugen and I was fortunate enough to have been involved in both. Here's a good story if you have time to read it. http://www.inertia.org/ACVWJYRO/acvwjy/drawbar.htm

Doc told me that I was as close to death as I'd ever be, just short of that final step. I sure felt like it.. ?

Just remembered this one. Early '80's I hired a skinny redneck bricklayer who'd had heart surgery. We were working on a job that summer and he said he was feeling funny and needed to go sit in the shade for a minute. I told him to go right ahead because if he keeled over dead he'd be found sitting behind the wheel of his pickup on the side of the interstate. No way was he gonna die on one of my jobs!!

Getting overheated is no fun.. When I was working construction I got overheated a few times. A couple of times I just threw up and got over it pretty fast. A few years ago on a nice, sunny hot August afternoon I was laying brick on the west side of a house, got overheated, threw up, and decided it was time to quit for the day. It was all I could do to stay awake on the trip home and tossed my cookies in the truck floor, too. When I got home I laid down on the kitchen floor with a fan pointed at me trying to cool off. It's scary to have your fingers and toes, hands, arms, and legs curl up and not be able to do anything about it other than grit your teeth and take the pain. I remember all the "old guys" saying you can't take the heat as well after you get seriously overheated. I don't know if that's true but I've been much more cautious since that experience.

You know how that guy is, he's liable to say anything! ?

No matter how hard you try you just can't make a Corvette look good..

Condenser is a possibility.

Thanks for the info!!

Who is Roger?

I'd go for a breaker bar although a slugging wrench would be my first choice if you can find one in the correct size.

Wish I'd seen this thread earlier. Chestnuts.............?

Not all velour, only diamond tucked! Keep the rest of that under your hat.. I'm trying to hold onto at least a little dignity!!?

Flat paint, Chevy in a Dodge, Chrysler in a Ford, I'm good with all that stuff. Diamond tucked velour interiors is where I draw the line! ?

Nice looking car!! I would love to find one in that condition!!

I always heard that if your OL doesn't support you it's time for a new OL. ? I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with that, just that it's something I heard. My wife and I met in '70. Been together since '71 and married since '74. I currently own 10 motorcycles and a few parts bikes, a bunch of other vehicles and parts, a slew of guitars and amplifiers, plus collections of other stuff. During our time together I've worked on motorcycles in the living room, rebuilt engines in the kitchen, and there have always been various motorcycle or car parts somewhere in the house. The only thing I've given up since we've been together is playing in rock bands. For me that's self-destructive behavior and I'm better off without it. I do admit to being a bit nostalgic for those days but as the great St. Louis philosopher Yogi Berra said, "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."

Those look like something from a Warshawsky or JC Whitney catalog, right next to the water injection setup. ?

I believe the letters that form a square mean Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler, Desoto or a variation thereof. No idea what AC means.

Show of hands, sale or sell; who can tell the difference? Someone grouched because he didn't get an answer concerning rotational mass. As if he really, genuinely, and for true expected an answer. Regardless of what anyone thinks that wouldn't have gotten an answer 50 years ago, either; and don't tell me that it would have. I was alive then, too. If someone wanted to maybe, possibly buy one rotational mass and asked that question and whined when he didn't get the answer he wanted he'd have gotten hit over the head with a not-so-rotational mass and thrown out the door. At least that's what would have happened had I been running the business. I useta be a man of action. Still am but the action's slowed down a bit.. Meanwhile in another corner of the universe is it sale or sell? What's going on there? George Carlin would know and so do I Hoochie mama!!! ?

I apologize if I caused anyone a headache or took the thread "off track". Seemed to me it started out with a wheel in the ditch.?

True, but it's hard to beat the simplicity of a T-10. I like slushboxes but even 10-15 hp isn't easy to find on any L-head. I just realized that what's really needed is a CVT!! ?

This is our old homeplace as it is today. When I was a kid there were more trees and fewer metal buildings and grain bins. We left there in 1965. “Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have been mad and drunken, furious and wild, filled with hatred and despair, and all the dark confusions of the soul - but so have we. You found the earth too great for your one life, you found your brain and sinew smaller than the hunger and desire that fed on them - but it has been this way with all men. You have stumbled on in darkness, you have been pulled in opposite directions, you have faltered, you have missed the way, but, child, this is the chronicle of the earth. And now, because you have known madness and despair, and because you will grow desperate again before you come to evening, we who have stormed the ramparts of the furious earth and been hurled back, we who have been maddened by the unknowable and bitter mystery of love, we who have hungered after fame and savored all of life, the tumult, pain, and frenzy, and now sit quietly by our windows watching all that henceforth never more shall touch us - we call upon you to take heart, for we can swear to you that these things pass.” ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

And after all that you know you really need a stick shift.. ?

I'd put in a new set of spark plugs.

That wasn't a bad deal. There are some dealers around here that sell those for about $5k. so it's not too hard to figure out the markup. Probably even better if you buy a container full of them. I don't know that they can be made street-legal here but they're popular on private property. Sure beats the price of a JD UTV or the like.