As I said in yesterday’s blog, I adjusted the carburetor on my old Chrysler, and it was idling much better but still dying when I stopped. When I put the air filter back on it wouldn’t start at all. A couple of blog readers told me they believed adjustment I had made was okay when […]
I said in yesterday’s blog that I was going to try to adjust the carburetor in my 1952 Chrysler and asked what could go wrong. Well, I found out. I took the oil bath air cleaner off the top of the carburetor and adjusted the idle and the richness as much as I could, and […]
Years ago, country singer Dan Seals released a song called My Old Yellow Car. Anyone who grew up poor and drove beaters when they were young could relate to it. I know I sure could. My first car wasn’t yellow, but the rest of it rang pretty true. These days, I have an old yellow […]