The transmission locked into first gear on a drive a couple months ago. It is probably not that hard to fix but I have been less and less enthused about working on the car. The thought of dropping the transmission and figuring it out frankly bored me. So I sold the car. Hopefully the new owner has fun with it!
I will leave this site up, I hope it is useful to someone. Final mileage
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This morning I started the Jeepster and the ammeter was at 0 and the voltage was only 12 volts. When I just turned the ignition on the AMP light does not light. Looks like we have a charging problem. Since I see people all the time who have no clue how to do this I will try to explain the process.
Continue reading “Fixed an electrical gremlin and put a new battery cable on”
Most years I do annual maintenance every spring in March or April when we get a nice day. But most years my father does not die. He passed away in April and since then I have been helping my mother and dealing with a pandemic so the cars got pushed on the back burner. But it is the last day of spring so technically it is still spring maintenance. This year I decided to go through the entire Tune Up chapter of the service manual (Section C if you are following along in your copy of the service manual). I will put the subsection numbers in as I go
I drove the Jeepster to work today and when I disconnected the batter I noticed this. I could have sworn I replaced the belt but obviously not.
I am determined to get the Jeepster running tonight. First some pics of the floorboard patches from underneath. I put that cable tie in there before I put the seam sealer on so I would have a place to tie the fuel lines to. The factory brace had a metal tab spot-welded on there and I forgot to do that before I painted everything.
I really should fix the rear floorboard before I put this all back together. But it was brutally hot welding in the summer and the car has been out of commission for more than a month. So I will put it back together and finish patching this fall when it is cooler.
Continuing on with the floorboards I started grinding down the welds. I started off using a grinding wheel in the angle grinder but had better luck with a flap disk.
Time to weld! Got to say I am really nervous about this. I practiced a little more on the bits I cut out of the floorboard.
While paint dried on the floor patch panels I started working on the seats. The passenger side seat bases are held on with these stupid Phillips-head screws. They look good from this side but the other end against the foam of the seat is badly rusted on all of them.
