So , I get home this afternoon and dig out the used window lift I bought yesterday and attach it to my test battery , the gear doesn't move the arm properly so I take a closer look at the whole thing and it's bent ~ only the pot metal part , no cracks just bent enough for the gears to not mesh properly .
I thought for a moment about getting a BFH and some blocks of wood and dressing it back into shape then realized that once bent , it's junk having lost the metal's " memory " .
Oh well , $40 + flushed , I'll go looking again .
Then I took the third seat wagon seat belt I bought a few years ago out , unreeled the webbing and washed it all out ~ it looked shiny black and clean but all manner of brownish ick came out as I gently washed it....
When unreeled , the belt is as long as I am tall , might be more than 6' , I hung it up in the shower to dry away from the sun and my dogs .
Then I dug out the 1985 SD injection pump I bought a while back set up a work bench and began cleaning it ~ it's _really_ grotty and has a 1/8" thick hard and dry coating of oil all over it .
A couple hours of scrubbing before I lost the light , bagged it and went to see my Sweet .
The low fuel lamp is lit in the Coupe so I put a can of Diesel fuel , a funnel and flannel strainer in the trunk , some new clear plastic intake screens and a few pairs of rubber gloves ~ I hope to run it clean out of fuel then coast to a safe place to stop , change the intake screen as it now has crud in it again , then pour in my spare fuel through the flannel cloth in my big funnel , hand prime it then motor off placidly to a filling station .
Well see if any of this works .
-Nate
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