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We are hundreds miles away from the nearest seawater. Manitoba has 100,000 lakes, all freshwater. But it's possible (even likely) the vehicle spent some time in a saltier environment.

The hood was also very bad. Check out the rocker panels and lower doors.

I'd forgotten about the Sprinter vans - it was scary how much surface rust they developed here.

I think of German cars in general as being quite rust-resistant, and was surprised to see this poor thing in traffic today. The front looked just as bad. I'd bet it spent its first few years in the rust belt somewhere

I ordered parts from Rock Auto Thursday, May 8th. I paid extra to have them delivered today by UPS (Tuesday, May 13th) rather than tomorrow (Wednesday, May 14th) by FedEx. The parts were not delivered today. RA considers them shipped, and has billed my CC. Per the tracking number, UPS says...

Think of this fellow as Bob Wilson, great-grandson of Gus, keeping the Model Garage in the family.

Good thought about a possible excessive load elsewhere on that circuit. You would expect the breaker to trip if the circuit was consistently overloaded, but some brands of breaker seem to tolerate excessive current without tripping. The switch should have been rated for at least as much...

That looks like there were three wires running to the switch - are they RD, BK, and WH? If so, that's a 3-way switch. I would expect a 4th wire, a bare copper ground, running to the switch's chassis.

@Chris142, where were the Bosch plugs made?

I remember those - they were used before I was driving. The stickers that replaced them have been around since at least the mid-'70s.

A lesser evil than the reverse. 😁

The speed of light (C) is at its theoretical maximum in a vacuum - 186,000 miles/s or 3 x 10^8 m/s. It will be slower in different media, but never faster. In optical glass (i.e. in fibre optic cables), the speed of light is "only" about 2/3 its speed in a vacuum. Optical glass's index of...

Exhaustive research reveals that comparable houses in the area typically sell for $495K. This house is more expensive due to its historical value; not evident in the photos is the bronze plaque detailing @Toy4x4's youthful stunts.

Yup ...

And immediately the Charity Brown song from 1974 began playing in my head. 😁

Thanks - I get very motivated thinking of my grandchildren riding in that van. 😁

Here's the weird thing - I have Princess Auto (sort of a Canadian equivalent to HF, but more eclectic with weird surplus stuff) press, but was afraid of breaking the irregularly shaped and rare knuckle. (Rock Auto lists a variety of hub-and-knuckle assemblies for may vehicles, but not the...

If you're really bored, you can look up the predecessor to this thread, posted by me May 2, 2018. (Where do the years go?) Before removing the front driver's-side wheel to address a slow leak, I found there was quite a bit of play in the wheel. I confirmed it was not the ball joint or tie-rod...

Welcome aboard, @Oily Ape! I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.

The plan is to look at them on the weekend. I'll update this then.