Sep 272026
 

In yesterday’s blog, I said I taken the oil bath air cleaner off the Chrysler, let it soak in solvent, flushed it well, and let it dry, hoping that would help the engine breath better and ease the stalling problem I’ve had. Yesterday we reinstalled it, filled it with oil, and I took it for […]

A Long Way To Go

 Posted by at 12:21 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 202026
 

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 Found Out

 Posted by at 12:03 am  Nick's Blog
Sep 192026
 

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 […]

Getting Naked

 Posted by at 12:30 am  Nick's Blog
Jun 052018
 

Note: After reading my recent blog about declaring war on mosquitoes, longtime reader Sue Butler reminded me of my past experiences with Mother Nature’s critters in this blog post from 2013 and suggested I might just want to surrender now and save myself and those around me any further misery. We’ve never been to a nudist […]