Posted on 07/13/2019 8:25:27 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Not any more.
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The problem is, when these are allowed to be passed they spread across the whole nation to be imposed on everyone, even on those out in the sticks with 40 acres and no neighbors at all.
Most residences don't have little ramps. Does this mean I can't change my own oil?
To normal people that is the problem. For the control freaks that is the solution.
I’m in the burbs and I roll my old Willys out of the garage since it is more practical to do stuff. Nobody gives me a hassle and I try not to make too much noise and clean up after myself.
Recently I’ve had to use a side and a die grinder to cut some rusted and damaged bolts off. A few minutes here and there. No grief.
The neighbor will put his new 250 on ramps and service it sometimes. Things are kept clean and never any kind of nuisance.
Sounds like a neighborhood with some common sense and courtesy for each other. This is how it should be, in fact pretty much used to be everywhere. Like you say, one control freak moves in and it is all over. Nice to hear you are a fellow willy’s fan. I have a 53 M38A1. :)
I disagree...do all my own maintenance.....on 2014 Prius...saves big bucks...I drive 5k miles a month
“They’re only going to bother the people who can afford to pay the fine. So if you’re a broke, homeless bum, no worries. The city is your oyster.”
Yea, Victor Davis Hanson calls it the “Two Californias” - one where you’re forced to live under and ever stricter, more encroaching, and more expensive set of rules, and the other, where you’re free to do as you wish because you’re either illegal or simply not going to comply with the law and not pay a price anyway. He literally sees both when he steps out of his house in Central California.
It’s over, in that state at least.
So how would changing the law to scoop up Saturday mechanics result in shutting down the chop shop when the cops are on the take too?
Is it ILLEGAL for an ILLEGAL to work on his car in his own garage?
Ping.
And the local HOA might be even more restrictive.
“So yeah, I think that air filter would get you a ticket.”
Particularly when the fine starts at $430.
Absolutely not. It is only illegal for citizens to work on their car in their garage!
I have both kinds. Willys and AMC.
The Willys has moved to the front burner after a hiatus. I’m powder coating and replacing sheet metal.
The big jobs I will have to pay for. No lift, home stuff, back and knees, plus some repairs are outside my scope.
https://cjneil82.smugmug.com/1965-Willys-CJ5-Project/
“Brakes are magnitude easier to change now than when they had drum brakes.”
Certainly true. It’s funny how so many people have been tricked into thinking they can no longer work on their own cars, when virtually everything to do on the cars is no harder, if not easier, than 40 years ago. Try troubleshooting a rough running engine then, when you had points, plugs that fouled, carburetors that got sticky inside, and distributors that didn’t advance properly. That actually took SKILL - now it’s simply responding to a code.
One day not long ago, I started my newest car and it ran very rough...first and only time I’ve had any newer car run rough, by the way. It sent me a code that one of the cylinders wasn’t producing power. Wound up that a varmint had chewed through the wiring to the injector to make a nest. Got the connector, added some wiring (with heat shrink, of course), and it’s fine since then. Very simple, and quick repair.
By they way, for the above, if I had even driven it into the shop, there’s a damn good chance that the unburned fuel due to the inoperative injector would have destroyed the catalytic converter and two oxygen sensors associated with that bank of the engine.
Nice rig friend. We just use ours as a workhorse around the property here. Rebuilt the Engine, Trans, Transfercase, and reset the differential gear lash about 20 years ago and it just keeps going and going.
I really like that little long stroke f-head engine, they have a lot of bottom end pull. They should have stuck with that design in cars instead of moving to shorter stroke larger bore engines.
The only problem I ever had with mine was hitting bumps and having the float stick open once in awhile. But those Carters where known to do that. Hard to find an original one that hasn’t been beat up on top. lol
I converted to a Weber 2 barrel and electric fuel pump.
The last mechanical pump I bought failed a few months after purchase. I will never go back to the old fashioned fuel pump.
Glad you like.
The engine was supposedly rebuilt before I bought it. There is a slight bit of valve trouble on #1. Just enough to know something.
Transmission has to be rebuilt or replaced. The transfer case seems ok.
It obviously depends on the cop. You know they have the power to enforce a law or not enforce a law. Lots of times peoples attitudes determine the outcome between a warning or a ticket.
“By they way, for the above, if I had even driven it into the shop, there’s a damn good chance that the unburned fuel due to the inoperative injector would have destroyed the catalytic converter and two oxygen sensors associated with that bank of the engine.”
I often wonder if some of these laws were actually designed to kill cars on purpose. Especially in Ca. I remember when they made me buy a $35 “emissions compliance retrofit kit” for my 67 Chevy and $80 for installation, had to be certified to install it and clear smog, couldn’t do it your self and bring it back.
But back to the point, All it consisted of was two rubber vacuum port caps to keep dirt out because the upgrade was just eliminating the vacuum advance hose to the distributor. This would have burnt holes through the pistons first hard long hill I climbed in summer warm weather. I think the whole idea behind it was to kill old Chevys.
Of course you can guess what I did just as soon as I left there... :)
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