Recent content by Dave Sherman

Because Autozone doesn't carry Valvoline VR-1 20W-50 for my Midget in anything but quart bottles.

Very sorry for your loss. Everyone experiences grief in a different way. Lost my father in December. His health had been declining for a couple years. I last saw him a couple months before, and I had a feeling it was the last time I'd see him. It was bittersweet when I got his Lincoln back...

Thanks all. An update, the plastic traps are working, just not all the time. I've caught 3 so far. Seems they were the ones that were giving me trouble, because tonight they haven't tripped and nobody took the bait. I like the bucket trap idea, I might have to look for one of those. For...

Having a little mouse issue in my garage. Started noticing some mouse droppings, though thankfully it doesn't look like they have caused damage to the vehicles (yet). Set out the spring traps (plastic jaw type) that have usually worked in the past, but these critters seem to have figured out...

Back to the muffler. Ran into a snag when the replacement muffler, despite having very similar dimensions, had an inlet pipe that was the same size as the pipe in the car. Took it to a shop to have it enlarged slightly, measured the dimension I needed, and well... The shop didn't measure it...

I guess I've usually had good experiences buying used from dealerships, I can think of several cars I've bought used that were all well maintained and far from junk. The Ram I bought at 22,000 miles and the Nissan we just bought had 28,000 from the same dealership. The Honda Pilot I had was...

Today was getting the speedometer out, because my trip odometer was having trouble, and the main odometer was stuck between two sets of digits. Found a couple shops willing to work on it, but thought I'd open it up and see what I could find. Turns out it's not so difficult to work on. Gears...

Thanks all, light silicone grease seemed to be the favored lube. I had a tube of Lubricam for the distributor, so I've got the old grease cleaned up and a few dabs of that on the shaft pivots and the helical drives.

I've got the speedometer and odometer apart for the '47 Lincoln. Relax, I'm not tampering, though I am lining up the odometer dials because it has been stuck between two sets of numbers for decades. Mainly I wanted to fix the trip odometer because the reset cable was frozen, and on the last...

My Lincoln would. No transistors in that.

A few, actually. The Lincolns had V-12s in different sizes from 1932-1948.

Today's project, the muffler. Dad once boasted that it still had the original muffler. Well... Now it needs a new one, the seam split. I was dreading taking it out, but remarkably, the bolts on the clamps unscrewed without too much fuss. Found the split in the coupler on the exhaust pipe...

Stepson was applying for a job at Advance Auto. Wife said I wasn't allowed to go heckle him by telling him I needed a water pump for a 1971 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia if he got the job.

Lots of good ones, but "White Room" by Cream.

Woohoo! The day finally came. Went for a drive, and everything worked, including the overdrive.