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It sounds like the door panel is interfering with the handle's travel. The handle does have a tiny bit of adjustment (it rotates the slightest bit with the bolt loose) so that might be worth investigating. If they're reproduction door handles, it's possible they're not an exact match to the...

Does this mean that horrible noise is gone? It was hard to tell because of the limited audio bandwidth, but on the laptop it sounded like a rod and on the desktop (run through a home stereo) it was either exhaust or valvetrain but still hard to discern. Check the driver's side anyhow, and it...

Put another bottle of limited-slip lube additive in it. If you've got a Powr-Lok (clutch) diff, the "aggressive" clutches may just be a fact of life. If you didn't install new clutches, though, I think another bottle of additive will clear that somewhat, if not completely. With a brand-new...

Have you checked the adjustment on the hood latch itself?

Unless you're in MI. Then you just reach for your ankles and smile. We've got the highest auto insurance in the country--it's cheaper for my pal to insure a 2017 Acura MDX in Atlanta GA than it is to get the same coverage on a 2010 Jetta in the U.P. "The Motor State" my flat foot.

Are the hood bumpers interfering? I've been fortunate to avoid any wisdom-tooth nonsense, but believe me--I'm no stranger to dental pain. Novacaine and other locals don't work on me, and no dentist has ever gassed me. It's always live, in the raw. I've had bad teeth since I was a kid, so...

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were washed out due to much-needed rain so no butchery could be done, but I've been busy since. Sunday was spent pulling various small parts about which I'd forgotten or didn't consider previously. I removed the remaining vent parts and set about disassembling...

Even though my right front's been crashed, straightened, and sculpted anew from filler, I'm sure it still fits better than the AMD part. That being said, we didn't even have a starting point. We had to make one. 😂 No joke--those fenders haven't been moved since that post. They simply didn't...

UPS calls it "SmartPost" or "SurePost" or something similarly silly. It's generally much less expensive than straight UPS. UPS does the "heavy lifting" of moving the package between cities, then USPS does the delivery since they're already on a route. One of Year One's tricks is to charge for...

I'm not sure on A-bodies, but on B and E-bodies if the rear of the hood is too high, you need to adjust the front of the hood down. It's totally counterintuitive. Since I didn't give a rat's keister about panel gaps on Agnes, that hood went on easily. No fight whatsoever. The gap isn't...

Damn it, Bob, what color is it?! You're tearing me apart here. Fun fact: AutoMeter bulb filters are nearly an identical match for the OE cluster lighting. I was tickled to see how well all my gauges, dash lighting, and aftermarket gauges matched after installed 'em. I had a feeling that...

This confuses me. I can't find any dash/cluster illumination wires in the diagram that aren't orange. Maybe I didn't look long enough, but part of that is based on experience. All the dash lighting wires are hot whenever the headlamp switch is pulled, regardless of key position; if yours was...

First we'll deal with the backup lamps. I had a bit of difficulty with those, but I don't remember the issue at the moment, only that the fix was simple. The turn signals also work off the same power feed, but on a different wire. Have you got working turn signals? I did, but didn't have...

I don't think that's the case, because the wire is too large a gauge as well. To be completely honest, who knows what happened there. Maybe the harness guy had a hangover, or they came up short on pink wire that day. But the damage to the plastic is evident, and I wonder if it wasn't a...

I accomplished quite a bit in a couple of hours this afternoon. A customer offered me the use of his trailer to dismantle the car the rest of the way so it wouldn't have to be dragged onto a trailer or cut up whilst sitting on the ground, so I accepted. He was even gracious enough to bring the...

The 5/32" dimension is at the pushrod end of the fork. There's no way to measure play at the other end of the fork. You'd have to measure at the throwout bearing which, had that been the case they would've said "measured at the release bearing". We're back to "linkage not designed for clutch...

Did you know today is International Reciprocating Saw Day?! It's not. Unless you're me. Throttle cable clips can be so fussy. It's much easier to just extend the hole you made to fetch the master cylinder plate, then work on the clip on the roof of the car. It turned out the deck filler...

Exactly what I was thinking you should do first. Buy the cheapest 552 flasher they've got.

I went out and looked at mine as soon as I got home. Both flashers are wired exactly as the service manual says they should be. There is no orange wiring involved in either connector, nor is there a blue wire on the turn-signal connector. In your second pic, the turn-signal flasher is...

I'm going to have a look at the '74 harness I just pulled and see what the hazard configuration is on that one. I can also have Kev look at the '74 harness he's got out of a car that was wrecked back in '79/'80, which we know is unmolested. I'll get back to you with what I find. The...