[Ben M.]

Originally Posted by Bliss_Street

Someone flooded the carb repeatedly which dumped a lot of fuel into the oil pan. The oil got thinned out and started leaking past the main seal. Spilled oil looks like more then it is, so someone added more oil to the car. Over filled oil led to a rough idle and someone tried to tune it.

I'm having a hard time believing that a carrier driver would have this much forethought to check the oil and top it off like that. Fortunately my car came with the oil level correct. Never underestimate the power of the uninformed, right??

Originally Posted by Bliss_Street

He changed the oil and filter. He then tuned the carb and adjusted the dwell time. Checked the distributor timing, replaced the points. It now runs better then ever and no longer has any pinging. It has noticeably more power and smoother acceleration.

You found a good shop with someone who knows what they are doing, you would do well to keep them handy and in business! Finding someone who can work on points or even knows what they are is extremely rare these days.

Originally Posted by Bliss_Street

Also, when you get moved with a large corporation, some times you don't have much choice. Granted, we didn't pay for it. But we also didn't have time to arrange it for ourselves.

My situation exactly too. When a company moves you, you for the most part don't get a choice unless you pay for it yourself. My '72 came to me covered in oil and grime from a generic hauler, the guy told me he picked it up like that but had typically seen it when another car above is leaking or the rig is belching out smoke and soot. My '69 came to me last year by 2 Armenian guys who had no clue how to drive a stick and I heard grind the gears 3-4 times trying to get it off the trailer. I had to pay for my '69 to get moved last month and while it was annoying finding the problems it had, ALL of them so far were related to the bozo previous owner and not anything the carrier did.

[Trulyvintage]

Like all things in Life - you do actually get what you pay for.

Some folks do not like what they get.

I do this every day & have been for many years,
I haul everything from $350 to $350K cars.

The one thing the folks I haul for have in common,
they care about their vehicles and they are willing to
pay what it takes to get them from one location
to another .....


Jim

[421mike]

As long as you are now in Simi Valley be sure to check with Simi PD to see the safest ares in Simi. Just saying

[Bliss_Street]

Originally Posted by 421mike

As long as you are now in Simi Valley be sure to check with Simi PD to see the safest ares in Simi. Just saying

Having lived in the Middle East for close to 5 years and South Africa for 4, I have a hard time thinking of any part of Simi Valley as "unsafe". But thanks for the laugh, I needed it. When I see roving bands of 12 year olds with Ak-47s and machettes, I'll start to worry.