Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put

Re:Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of... by forgetfreeman on Monday August 12, 2024 @04:19PM (#41228857)

Oh man, I got to "rejetting carbs" and had the momentary urge to toss a chair out a window and then dive out after it. Kudos if you'll do your own carb work, that's where I draw the line.

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Re:Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of... by johnmaguire on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:19PM (#41229444)

I keep telling myself that carbs are an obsolete technology and there's no reason to learn them.

I almost believe myself.

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Re:Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of... by forgetfreeman on Monday August 12, 2024 @09:06PM (#41231159)

Unless you've got a burning desire to perform stupidly fiddly restorations on old lawnmowers there really isn't. You couldn't pay me to own a gas powered tractor, and EV conversion kits are starting to get good enough that dicking around with anything smaller than a dragster is less like a reasonable hobby and more like a weird fetish at this point. Full disclosure: I've got a holly 4 barrel sitting in a box waiting to go on my 62 fairlane this fall. I may be a glutton for punishment.

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