The entirely mechanical Bosch K-Jetronic is a pretty robust system. The smog control trend in the 1980's brought about KE-Jetronic so that the system could be electronically managed. KE-Jetronic, in my experience (1989 W124 300CE M103) is a raging piece of shit that is difficult to diagnose, expensive to repair, and…

Not a car, but a Mercury 50 horse twin cylinder starter. The three and four cylinder models of this design had enough height so that removing the starter allowed it to miss the lower housing. Not so on the twin cylinder. The book called for removing just about every bolt holding the transom clamp, leg and lower…

I think you are forcing bolts and thusly breaking them. Put oil on the stuff you want to disassemble, let it soak a few days, add some heat. I’ve heated hopelessly stuck bolts with a propane torch and then touched wax from a candle to the stuck bolt, capillary action sucks the wax between the threads and lubricates…

I love how everything gets completely destroyed but the Beetle just kind of scoots over.

Well my neighbor is a barber and got arrested last night for selling weed! I have been his customer for YEARS and didn’t even know he was a barber!

My boss did a similar thing many years back, sucking water into the airbox and hydrolocking the engine.  He successfully convinced Chrysler to replace the engine on his Grand Cherokee because Chrysler had an advertisement out that showed a Grand Cherokee successfully fording a rive that went over the roof of the…

I have an ‘89 300ce, W124 Mercedes with the M103.  It is signal red with a black interior, so kind of the opposite of what you are looking for. 89,000 miles, I’ve been taking good care of it.