My toolbox includes several paper clips, chewing gum and tape as a result
of the following experiences:
In the middle of nowhere in Northern California I once resuscitated my B's
fuel pump by replacing the broken pivot pin for the contact points with a
paper clip. It got me back to the Univ of Oregon, 250 miles away.
Way up an unpaved logging road in Oregon, gum, wadded around a stick and
jambed into a pencil-sized hole in the gas tank - just created by that rock
I *thought* I could straddle - got me about 50 miles back to town. (Moral:
don't go 4-wheeling in an early B)
Two hours spent on the side of Tioga Pass in Yosemite with a car that
wouldn't restart ended when it was discovered that the wire had come off
the ignition capacitor. Taping it down did the trick.
Russ Wilson
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