Runamuck Bus wrote:The test ride was the 2nd longest ride I have had in the bus, but it unveiled some potential problems that resulted in a carb removal and cleaning.
Carb options have been added to the ever growing list of things to do. There's more to be done
and
most importantly -
I'm keeping the bus with new motivation.
Thanks Colin.
Music to my ears . . .
This visit was most auspicious for the simple fact that it was the first time I got to actually
drive Runamuck's bus . . . on his only-the-second-time-ever test drive.
I was raring to go, but we had to get a brake pedal. Fortunately, the rear shoe/e-brake adjustment brought it right up. As Runamuck Bus was heard to chant, "up yours . . . unless you're right, and I'm right, so I must be down."
A quicky point replacement and timing lesson and off we went, about the suburban palaces perched on the hill above us.
These VWs quickly talk to me when moving under their own power, and I needed to get a sense of the personality and overall health of this particular car that I had hitherto only ever witnessed sitting and eating people ... ... :
... ... or basking like an inplacable Buddha in the presence of beseeching prayers:
I was very happy to find a lively soul under the recalcitrant Weber Knock-off Holley carburetor. It drove well with the secondary throttle open, so I had to keep the brakes applied for most of the time. The neighbors, well, the neighbors could only conclude that this was the first time either of us had ever driven a manual transmission.
Get thee some decent carburetion post haste! Runamuck. I have your Kustom Screwdriver and will send it to you.
Colin
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