It’s possible, but if so it’s not how it came from the factory. Charcoal canisters were pretty much de rigueur by 1968 or so, and I know Jeeps had them from 1972 at the latest.

Sealing the tank by looping hoses between the vents is a *bad idea*.

Assuming the tank is now sealed, it will pressurize itself. It will then attempt to push gasoline out through the fuel pump pickup (the lowest available outlet). This will cause fuel leaks when not running and rich run when under way.

If you don’t want…

I miss my Pug. Best car I ever sold.

And I want the wagon.

I just finished a service/repair on a Lancia today. A 1971 Fulvia Sport Zagato 1.3S, to be precise.

Thing is, it’s easy to say, but how are you going to do it? As long as the GOP controls the Senate, you won’t get it changed.

I wish I was somewhere along your route, if only so I could point out all the ways you could have done things better as I help you patch whatever has failed this time.

As an ASE Master Tech, your wrenching articles often bring me sadistic joy. At least you are smart enough to fix things that shouldn’t be fixed…

Just buy a Duraspark ignition box to go with the Duraspark distributor. They’re like forty bucks.

So, any bets on whether the tail lamp was actually broken?

245/35ZR10? That is what my eyes see, yes? So a 17" tall tyre that’s over 9 1/2" wide?

Sure, it’s a typo, but it’s a funny one to imagine.

I never had a subscription, but pretty much every time a new issue came in I was at Barnes & Noble picking it up. Max Power, CAR, Performance CAR, Autocar & Motor... those were the rags I really got my automotive culture from. No wonder I work at a Euro repair shop.

How would you know a gun owner didn’t turn everything in? There’s no records. There’s also evidence that compliance in the US would be spotty at best; if you look at Connecticut’s and New York’s registration laws passed post Sandy Hook, pretty much all the available estimates of guns and magazines that were required…

It’s not about the absolute amount of money needed, although the number would be staggering. It’s about the will to spend that amount of money, and the will of the gun owners to take it. I certainly would be unlikely to turn in *all* my guns in a buyback, and I’d like to think I’m on the rational end of the gun…

I assume they’re using the same definition as everyone else, i.e. guns that use energy from the last round to chamber a new round after each shot.

Gun nut here:

This wouldn’t work in the USA. I think the statistic I heard for the number of semiautomatic firearms in NZ was something like 15k guns. And buying them back is going to cost $140 million US. That’s over $9k US per gun bought back (which seems excessive, but whatever). If you just bought back Colt 1911…

Love these. Definitely a bucket list car for me, so that may be influencing my NP vote. Also, I daily a 20-year-old Saab, so I’m a little more flexible on oddness in a daily.

If it was closer, I’d be dialing the phone.

I have just scrolled through 3+ years of camera roll, and don’t have one picture.

Not surprising, as it’s not mine.

The car in question is my father’s 1970 Triumph Spitfire; he bought it new in 1969, and I didn’t arrive on the scene until 1974. Someday, it will pass to me as caretaker. And from my keeping, hopefully, to…

I’m no liberal. But the blindness of right-wing supporters regarding political violence is unconscionable. The vast majority of political violence in the US is carried out by right-wing nutjobs. The single deadliest domestic terror attack was carried out by right-wing nutjobs. The Republican President of the United…

I am still bemused and amused by the fact my wife’s Honda Civic has flappy paddle shifters. And a CVT.

THERE ARE NO GEARS TO CHANGE, HONDA! WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO IMPRESS?

Late 2017, my wife wanted a new car. We had a new baby and her Yaris was just too small. She liked the Civic Hatchback, but they were both hard to find and hard to find at or below sticker. When local dealerships got one, it tended not to stay for long.

So we drove out to a Honda dealer about an hour away (Superior…

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