COOL, you found a picture. I had looked at the tires previously to see if they were pressured differently, but appeared the same. Dude in the back must be doing the leveling when the picture was taken.
When I Googled VW pool table, it shows up on many sites. Nice job on the conversion.JasCochran40038.9434027778

Storage is in the engine compartment
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Usually my cars ONLY break down when it’s either 10 below or 100 plus, and either snowing or raining. I dropped my Scout’s rear driveshaft on the interstate just east of Knoxville at 75 miles an hour in a rain storm. I gathered pieces of U-joints, shaft and mufflers off the interstate in the downpour for half an hour, engaged the front axle and…[Read more]

Most (but not all) LPs are chambered now. It’s a pretty significant routing of the body before the cap is glued on. A chambered LP weighs about 8 pounds.Always a hearty debate raging on the Gibson forums about whether chambering improves or harms the sound. I had tried all sorts of Tele’s and Strats. Just not for me. The LP is and always will be…[Read more]

Leveling is easy.Portable air pump. Change tire pressures up or down as necessary until level.

You guys crack me up . Priceless.
I wonder two things, how do they get the table there, and where do you find a perfectly level parking space?

Paul,
Naw, it was a gift that I bought for myself and my son about 15 years ago. It is very heavy but the sound is awesome. I play it through an original 1976 Fender Princeton Reverb amp. The sound is vintage and awesome. I have thought about selling it a few times because it doesn’t get much use anymore, but just can’t get myself to do it. Now…[Read more]

How true. But working on ’em is fun too.And were it winter, us northerners would be freezing our fingers off (and other critical body parts), except for the lucky ones with heated garages,

Beautiful guitar Rich! Must have been one hell-u-va Christmas tree to hang a Les Paul and a chair on it! Was your LP a Christmas gift? My LP was a 50th birthday gift!I have an Epiphone DOT (which I got signed by Les Paul) and one of the original Blue-Silverburst Gibson Les Paul Robots (basically a Custom, with the auto tuning electronics). And…[Read more]

Now that is awesome!And Rich, I love your “story”. See now I would have figured things like this usually start with unusual amounts of “refreshing” beverages! Kinda the corollary to …disaster will follow any action that begins with Hey guys, watch this….!

James,
Man, you really have to wonder where this stuff comes from. Here’s my scenario:
One morning while eating his Corn Flakes, Chester thinks, Man, I really like them old VW Microbus’s (chomp, chomp), and wow, I really like playing pool with the guys (chomp, chomp), Say, wait just a doggone minute! What if I take a VW Bus and turn it into a P…[Read more]

Mark
Know of any new codes?   Looks like they’ll be getting some orders from me
Thanks
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Dan and gang;
Yeah, I’m thinking whatever is going on I’m looking at replacing most everything I run into.  Once I tear into it I might as well R&R as much as I can, other wise I’m looking at not trusting her again and that would be a shame.
If this were winter time I’d feel better about this, I hate missing good driving weather.
Ringo

Ringo ; I had a GEO different engine but the timing belt jumped, the tensioner went bad and jumped half the belts teeth on a third gear shift.  The belt was only 6 mo old being a noninterference head all was ok after I put it back together I will never change one without the other again.  GOOD LUCK

Update
Gave it a short crank over when I got home.  Gas is sprayin up out of the carb. Not a leak… an atomized like spray.  Somethings way out of time to do that. 
Paul, the distributor seems tight, can’t pull it up or twist by hand.
I’ll cut off the gas and drain the float bowl for safety then try the other stuff to cover all the angles. ie,…[Read more]

Paul,
Wow, really sorry to hear that. I’m a music nut and also a struggling guitarist (Guitar, Piano), and a bit of a collector. In my collection is this 1977 Les Paul Custom Natural beauty! Next to my TD Replical, it’s my pride and joy!

 
Great musician and innovator. The Solid Body Guitar, Multi-Track recording to name a few. Hell of a player t…[Read more]

Re:
“…even on the tow truck, it got honks and thumbs up…..”
I bet most people thought it was an original (since it was on a tow truck)! ha!

After you do what Larry said…there is a shaft driven by the timing belt that drives the distributor and the fuel pump. In all my years, I’ve never seen one of these fail on a 2.3L Ford Lima.
I’ve seen fuel pumps fail, distributor parts fail, coils fail, rarely a timing belt failure either.
Jumping timing usually happens when the timing belts are…[Read more]

I think I like it that way too  

That nylon piece is the same material the speedo gears are made from. The gear lube makes them swell and time (a few decades) makes them brittle.
Glad that it’s an easy fix and that Rick Drake had the part…he’s the bomb!!! Put a little gasket sealer on the cover when you reassemble it.
Don’t tell anyone, but Larry Murphy has a brand “new”…[Read more]