Thanks for the heads up on the hardware. I'm sure I'll be needing some. Leave it to Ford to sell only the gold plated versions.
Another fun day in the shed. Took the moped out for a run. Been using it for living room art for the last 8yrs. and got it out a couple months ago. Clutch plates were stuck so bad I had to run it down the hill and hit 2nd gear to pop them loose. Stuck again this morning. Now has 1051 miles, so 44 years on it's time for the break-in service. Swapped the OE fish oil for some Rotella 15/40. It was nasty, and the sealing washer wasn't sealing, so got a new one. A few sparkles in the pan, but not more than I expected. ran it around the block, and do it again tomorrow to see if the plates stick again.
Hard to pick a band for such a mundane job. Been thinking about that, and last week came up with a fix. Had an old windows 7 laptop gathering dust because a bunch of bad sectors in the hard drive retired it. Gave it the full nuke reset to see what would happen. Loaded up all my.mp3's, and all my digital service manuals. Fortune smiled upon me. It plays tunes, and the Adobe reader still works. This is all it's good for as it won't talk to the interweb. Put it on random and the first song was by King Crimson. Score!
Car content. Ran more errands in the Comet. Was checking the p/s pump leak (still dry) and noticed the battery sitting a little awry. Hold down clip nut broke. Looked rusty enough to be OE, so I'll give some slack. All good now.
Another fun day in the shed. Took the moped out for a run. Been using it for living room art for the last 8yrs. and got it out a couple months ago. Clutch plates were stuck so bad I had to run it down the hill and hit 2nd gear to pop them loose. Stuck again this morning. Now has 1051 miles, so 44 years on it's time for the break-in service. Swapped the OE fish oil for some Rotella 15/40. It was nasty, and the sealing washer wasn't sealing, so got a new one. A few sparkles in the pan, but not more than I expected. ran it around the block, and do it again tomorrow to see if the plates stick again.
Hard to pick a band for such a mundane job. Been thinking about that, and last week came up with a fix. Had an old windows 7 laptop gathering dust because a bunch of bad sectors in the hard drive retired it. Gave it the full nuke reset to see what would happen. Loaded up all my.mp3's, and all my digital service manuals. Fortune smiled upon me. It plays tunes, and the Adobe reader still works. This is all it's good for as it won't talk to the interweb. Put it on random and the first song was by King Crimson. Score!
Car content. Ran more errands in the Comet. Was checking the p/s pump leak (still dry) and noticed the battery sitting a little awry. Hold down clip nut broke. Looked rusty enough to be OE, so I'll give some slack. All good now.
