Air Cooled Addiction

all finished. the pic's don't really do the color justice. it's called pearl arctic blue. i was expecting something a little more silvery, but in person it's really blue. but it looks pretty cool with the flames (stickers) and black wheels. https://i.imgur.com/cLvuTMj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/eHsbhPm...

flashback!

i know it's a cover, but i may have to change my opinion of Moby Moby got a lot of hate back in the day and I'm not sure why. I definitely didn't dig his music but he seemed to stick to his style and not follow trends, which I thought was admirable. He was like a less chic Beck. i did a little bit ...

i know it's a cover, but i may have to change my opinion of Moby

ok, had the battery on the charger all day. volt gauge in the car is now showing 12 volts again. fluke meter still shows the battery at 12.6. it cranks like crazy now, and i can read the time on the head unit again! haven't seen that sense i put the battery in. still won't idle. tomorrow (weather pe...

well, i just tried it. still won't idle got it on the charger again cause why not. works great everywhere from 900rpm up to about 5000rpm. just won't f'ing idle

im thinking the fuel filter is empty cause it's sucking back to the tank. there's no way the tank could suck the carb dry. that ether leaked or evaporated. don't know how, it's never happened before. the other option is that somehow the carb syphoned into the engine. don't know how that would be pos...

pulled the carb off today. pulled all the jets and needles and everything out, blew the piss out of it with compressed air and carb cleaner. not sure if it actually cleaned out any debris. had a suspicious fleck on the throttle plate. don't know where it came from, don't know if it came from inside ...