Knocking Out the Little Bugs

This morning Tom addressed a couple of the little problems that arose while Ariel was driving me yesterday. First, he cleaned out the crud that had accumulated at the carb filters. Draining the tank to fix the leaks last month had disturbed some crud that eventually found its way to the filters. He had me run for about fifteen minutes and I ran nice and smooth, so it looks like that fixed the problem. He did notice, however, that the passenger-side carb's choke opens way sooner than the driver's side. That might contribute to the rough-running that happens before I'm fully warmed up.

To fix the no-blinker problem, he had to remove my steering wheel and disassemble the turn-signal mechanism in the column. After cleaning, regreasing, and reinstalling all the parts, everything works smoothly now.

Since Ariel only had to use the hotwire to start me once yesterday, Tom told her that installing a remote start switch will wait.

He ran some water over the back window to check for leaks, and found one small one that he addressed with some more well-placed black silicone. We're all hoping really hard that that was last time he has to get the silicone out.