I saw them stuck in Vietnam, usually on the side of a road in a ditch where it was swamped on one side and the other side was basically not touching the ground.

CHEAP!!!!!

Hey, when this first blew up I was wearing my N99 paint mask complete with organic filters. You want to talk about strange looks. Remember that I am in NJ where it took off fast and furious and any kind of mask was impossible to find. That was back when they first were saying that a mask was not nec...

Good point! Something to think about with military vehicle rallies also.

Hopefully it did not run so long that it ruined the bearings! That is the main problem with the fording vent on the fuel pump. That vent is there for the main reason so that if the diaphragm breaks you will visibly see the gas running out of the side of the pump and stop running it. Without being ab...

Can't see what you have since it is on the other side but no real need to have the vacuum pump if you are running electric wipers. Do be sure to hook the vacuum up to the distributor though since you need to remove the ozone created by the sparks inside the cap. Contrary to popular belief the vacuum...

Moot point, it is on the ground. Just worked around it and trimmed off all the stuff I knew was not holding it and then when I got to the touchy stuff I made sure there was a tree between me and what I was doing so if it went I was protected. In the end it was a large group of branches all jammed be...

And hideaway headlights!

Personally, I'd be considering felling that trunk and allowing it to take the upper bit with it. Is that an option? Not really an option since the way the upper part is attached it is most likely going to go in the direction of all the stuff I am trying to protect. And even if I could pull it the o...

Hey Dave, Is that one of those new in the box engines that was for sale back in those days? I remember seeing a few of them. Advertised as "new in box" or "New government rebuilt" and this is what would show up.

Come on up to NJ where I have your Tx. heat and NJ humidity and on top of all that I have a massive pine tree that broke off 20 feet up and is just trying to finish falling right on my container with all of my M-37 parts in it and on the collection of M-37 beds and body parts. You can barely see the...

A Cord. Sweet car!

While working on recent exhaust manifold issue, I finally got to lay my hands around this A1 engine. But with some A2 fuel tank and other MUTT salad issue, I noticed several vacuum lines with sheet rock screws or other various methods of plugging the lines. I would like to go through this engine ba...

The fitting on the back of the intake manifold does go to the wipers eventually so if that was the problem then there must have been a fairly large leak in that line somewhere.

The speedo cable was brand new................ But how many years ago? The grease could have dried out. How high is your idle? It should be fairly low. Even with a rich idle and exhaust leaks they don't usually backfire unless they are running fast enough to dump a lot of raw gas at shut down.