If you're going to service an AT save the dirty ATF and dribble some in that driveway crack to keep the weeds down. Drain oil will stain the cement, but ATF won't.
It's a good idea to replace the plastic. It's a fantastic vapor barrier. And we all know what moisture does to door panels, and it helps slightly as a sound & dust barrier. I've been using the same plastic is normally used as a vapor barrier for home constructions. A little heavier than OEM...
Who scrutinizes carpeting that closely? If you walk into any room of someone's house do you look over the ceiling & floor....NO. You look at the walls unless your attention is pointed elsewhere. Drive it with pride.
Bottom line is there is a specific group of people that stand to make huge $$$ by selling this crap. They have no fore-thought as to whether our system can support it or if it can even survive in our environment. It's nothing more than a major scam only intended to make certain people rich at...
It's always nice to keep clutter to a minimum. But I usually try to keep the "leftovers" near until the project is finished. Put all the (hopefully) unwanted's in a big box until the projects finished. I'd bet that you'll return to that box many times.
They call it "inflation". With a lot of blame going to the EPA. Thirty yrs back I had my rear bumper "show chrome", triple plated by North Star Bumpers in Madison WI, 45 miles away for just over $300. And my front is an NOS that I bought from Galen for $150. It still has the factory part #...
No need for a helper. First, make sure to take the throttle off of the high idle position, then adjust to take up about 95% of any slop in the cable, done.
You should be able to straighten that squiggle in the bumper with a healthy pipe wrench lined with a board on the chromed side, if you can figure out how to hold the bumper steady.
No, go back 20 yrs & buy every nice original part available. Then you'd have most of the parts needed for a fraction of today's cost. It's hard to beat a "happy hobby."
I broke the $18k mark on my convert 30 yrs ago when I did it. According to an online calculator that would be $37,649 today. So you're not doing bad at all.
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