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Title: Car Mechanics are Weasels
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Published: Dec 7, 2011
Author: Turtle
Post Date: 2011-12-07 18:38:45 by Turtle
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Comments: 24

My check engine light can on and my 1999 Ford Winstar van did not want to start. It finally did, so I took it to the local mechanic whom I had never been to before.

It was the Mass Air Sensor. $200 for the part, he told me, $70 labor. I checked at Autozone and got the part for $129. It was located in the air filter. Took me about 45 minutes to change it.

Weasels!

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I always keep my cars a long time. I'm 57 and this is my forth one I've had since I got my first of two VW Super beetles.

I also have a almost ready to re-title standard bug I bought out of someone's farm field and I am completely overhauling and getting ready to become my primary vehicle.

I hate not having a VW Beetle up and running. They are the greatest. I am using my last 1600 engine I rebuilt as a spare for the other one. I need to buy another to overhaul to keep as a spare.

Ferret  posted on  2011-12-07   22:05:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Add this place to your VW favorites folder, they always have winners in car shows in North Texas.

X-15  posted on  2011-12-08   2:37:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Thanks, great site. Eugene, Oregon is one of those places that is the elephant's graveyard of air cooled VWs. I ran across an old 1963 standard beetle that still had an intact pan with all it's german steel fenders, deck lid and other parts in repairable condition at an old woman's place by my brother's place in Salem, Oregon.

I completely dismantled it and have been methodically restoring it. It is completely unshaved and has no real modifications done to it other then those that make sense like California style window seal rubber, some better then stock engine modifications, headline, seats and carpeting.

I used to plaster my bedroom door with VW ads in the 60s and early 70s and my first one was a 1973 Super Beetle I had to really struggle to save for when I was in my late teens as my Mom would not co-sign for anything but a "save real car" like the Ford Pinto she tried to talk me into getting.

When the self lighting hibachi barbecue aspects of the Ford Pimple when hit from the rear came out, I never let her forget that. It was the best car I ever had.

One time though when I was going tree planting in Idaho I got toilet paper near a vandalized highway restroom sucked into the cooling fan behind the engine doghouse and fried the engine five miles out of Arlington, Oregon and the nearest tow truck in Boardman many miles away wanted 200 dollars to do the tow.

I put my shoulder into the door and pushed it back all the way to Arlington. (fortunately much the last mile back was down a shallow hill). I got a ride back to Portland, got $$$ from my sister and Greyhounded back home where I hired a couple sleeping in a pickup near White Bird Clinic to drive me, my tools and a spare engine back to Arlington where I field installed it.

We took the dead engine to Portland where I cored it and then went back to Eugene where I had the facilities to make sure everything was rigged right and then headed out to Wallace Idaho to re-join my crew.

People can say what they want bout how nasty and dirty tree planting is, but one thing for sure; I would never have had the strenght to do that push without the strength going up and down hills with 65 pounds of trees on my hips with a 19 pound hoedad in my gloved hand.

I have a Porsche engine I want to install into a bug someday. I think that is the most carefully rebuilt engine I have ever done. I am from a family into aviation and the first engine I ever 'helped' rebuild was to the family Cessna 140.

Which is why I have an affinity for air cooled power plants. I used to make extra money rebuilding engines in the self help car shop at Fort Bragg, N.C.

I'd get bored because I didn't drink and go to clubs so I would work on cars, my Harley (Sportster) or Veewees. There was one old cracker in Spring lake who had three derelict oval windows rotting in his collection of VW junk who I tried everything I knew to get him to sell one of them to me.

He told me, "I'm saving them for my retirement" (he was in his 60s.) I left before he died and his family sold them. That is my big one that got away.

I have a 1600 CC block that has been dye penetrate tested for cracks, line bored and had the case savers installed, but I am going to get an engine from a yard in Portland to make the new spare for the 1963.

It was funny how blind I was when I got to Bragg of how many people in other parts of the U.S. judge you by your ride. It wasn't until I got the Harley before some car oriented guys would warm up to me. Taking off the Grateful Dead stickers off the bug helped too.

I found an interesting way to get new seats too when I was there in the late 70s before the pee test era.

They had dogs go through our cars and one smelled the pound I had had on the seat and started attacking the oder. I objected bu the handler wanted to let the pooch work.

They paid for new seats. I made sure I found the most expensive ones before I turned in the receipt to get my claim paid off. It's a good thing I had vacuumed the interior before this happened. I told them I had forgotten my grocery bag one day and the heat in the closed car had done a number on the beef I had bought and that was probably what the dog was attacking.

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