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Greetings! I've been on the forum for a bit, but this is my first time on this side of it. I'm looking into purchasing my first motorcycle to learn to ride on and thought I would come here to ask for your input. I've ridden manual 4-Wheelers in the past, I know how to drive a manual...

Worked on the ol' girl this past weekend. Next up is replacing the cruise control servo.

This weekend was a decently busy car weekend in general. I decided sometime last week that I wanted to paint the rims on the van black, this was my first time removing the wheels on the van which gave me a chance to inspect the front brake pads (which look to be in very good condition). It also...

It does! Thanks, yeah, it's been a tough journey of sorting out all of the temporary fixes and installations from past owners. The incorrect ECU was pure dumb luck... I posted the codes to an Econoline Facebook group and one of the past owners of the van chimed in: "Oh yeah, I completely forgot...

Yesterday I sent Gear Vendor an email and the representative I was speaking with had me remove the cable that was the bridge between the Speedometer Cable and the Gear Vendor unit. After a few blasts with Liquid Wrench, the cable disconnected on both ends pretty easily. It appears that one of...

It's been a pretty busy week for the van, I replaced the ECU/PCM with the correct unit. The reason I was receiving all of the transmission codes is because the ECU had been replaced with a unit from a van with the 4 speed auto. I found a unit on eBay for $40 and installed it. The van ran better...

It's been an incredibly busy weekend. I've been trying to get my 1991 Volvo 240 finished, I did get it registered, insured, and it's almost complete, just waiting on a package from IPD for the flame trap. I also finalized the electric radiator fan install complete with a cheeky label. This car...

I've been playing a bit with Google Sketchup and happened upon a model of an Econoline after viewing someone's Instagram that had utilized a model for the 3rd Gen. The quality of the screen grabs isn't the best.

It's been a while, but my girlfriend an I ended up buying back the Jeep we sold to buy the van. WHAT A MISTAKE. If you love a vehicle, never sell it to a teenager then buy it back. It's required a ton of work to get back to where it was, full interior swap due to a broken drivers seat, the kid...

I bought it back after selling it 8 months ago to a teenager... I'd owned it for 8 years before selling it, and it has 255,000 miles on it and still feels strong. He did put some used KO2's on it, utterly wrecked the drivers seat somehow, removed all of the interior bulbs after they kept...

My mom loves it for some reason. It's from the forties. It's stuffed with horse hair and weighs an absolute ton. But it did fit nicely. Lol. I'll check this out, I dealt with one of my 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It wasn't doing this before I replaced the spark plugs, cap, rotor, wires...

After a bunch of work this weekend, I believe I've finally buttoned up the transmission cooler install and the radiator install with no more leaks. I drove it to my mothers house (to help her move) about 60-70 miles away and it drove great. It's been idling a bit high at times and attempted to...

The week before Christmas was pretty slow going on the work to the van. I can't believe it's taking me this long to get it back to being roadworthy. Also, there are terrible "Expo" related logs. I managed to get to the hidden spark plug by removing the alternator. Swapped it out and my firing...

I actually discovered that the bed takes up way too much room and is too tall for me to be comfortable sleeping or sitting. Mostly personal preference, but I didn't enjoy sleeping at or above window level. The night we made it into the camp site, we barely made it by 11pm and still had work to...

Picture from a few months ago! Also, not remote. But it was our first test run of the set up. We discovered a lot of things that didn't work for us.

Last night I finally got to wrenching on the van. It's been rainy and cold, but last night it was only rainy. While moving the van, I noticed that the rear dome light started working miraculously! I love it when problems semi-solve themselves. My girlfriend also helped me string along plug...

Recently I ordered some tune up parts for the 351w. The speedometer is still broken, but that'll be next. Not pictured is the MSD dizzy cap.

Thanks! It's slowly getting there.

Last night my girlfriend and I towed my Beetle to its winter home. While there, we also removed the mattress from the back of the van so we can rework the sleeping platform to make it modular. On our way home we ended up hitting a sleet/ice/snow storm and half the journey was at less than 40...

Last weekend a buddy and I pulled the motor in my Super Beetle to do a refresh over the winter. Since I have a single car garage, I just picked up another buddy's trailer and am now going to tow the Beetle shell to my hometown to store in my grandmother's garage since it will be empty all...