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by Adelard of Bath
Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Brakes
Replies: 20
Views: 6288

What's the best way to bleed brakes at the caliper, pressurise and unscrew the line slightly? I have yet to have a car where the screws didn't break off. Except for newer cars
by Adelard of Bath
Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:01 am
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: Sways bars and caps
Replies: 11
Views: 3886

If you need to, I've heard of people welding stuff onto rounded bolts, if you can get to them well enough, you could weld a bar on there or something, then once it is lose, grind it off? That's a last measure though. I recently bought a rounded bolt tool at my tractor place ( "Fleet Farm" ...
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:52 am
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: I give up
Replies: 29
Views: 10209

Bad Horror Film! Especially when walking around with a totally black paint suit and face mask and glasses, like those video game commercials they show with the troops marching wearing gas masks, that's me! or was...heh
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: My ultimate offroader!
Replies: 9
Views: 3239

that's okay, i'd have to get the thing back here anyway....which i can't do yet
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: civic wagon vs. tercel wagon...
Replies: 47
Views: 20748

I bet somewhere, in an alternate Honda universe, the EXACT same discussion is happening, except mirror image...heh and the independant vs solid rear discussion will rage forever, in every 4WD forum, with neither side changing their minds ever...much like "2door vs 4door" discussions, and &...
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: My ultimate offroader!
Replies: 9
Views: 3239

Why don't you give me that lil clean one with dead engine, and I will give you that cargo cover hehehe a nice even trade!
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:29 am
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: I give up
Replies: 29
Views: 10209

I was thinkin about it actually heh, it would be alot easier if I could roll the car onto the side hehehehehe like on a couple mattresses or something heheheheh Without a job, I have all the time in the world (but little energy) and I still know everyone at my old job, the spiral staircase factory, ...
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:23 am
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: Mufflers & sound / fuel economy
Replies: 5
Views: 2175

Well if you live in the country in Colorado, that's not white trash, that's called "livin the good life"
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:19 am
Forum: General
Topic: One fluid leak begets another
Replies: 4
Views: 1405

I just did this too! the fuel....I don't think anyone's car is as rusty underneath as mine so your's might not be this bad....I dropped the tank to fix a leak, and found many leaks in the tank....some time cleaning it showed me where I could push through with a screwdriver. So I couldn't/didn't want...
by Adelard of Bath
Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:03 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: How many people here from BC?
Replies: 8
Views: 3310

Oh yes I forgot to mention, my Nissan Pathfinder is from Canada, maybe he can go to your party and I can take along? Somebody's gotta drive him, can't do it himself The speedo is in km and the power lock switches say "verrou" and "porte deVerrou" I hope I spelled that right! Ever...
by Adelard of Bath
Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:56 pm
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: Mufflers & sound / fuel economy
Replies: 5
Views: 2175

I saw a early-mid-80s tercel hatchback today...not a wagon or 4wd but just a hatchback....dragging some muffler pipes..... that car (and the cars we talk about here) are most DEFINETELY the quintessential "white trash" or "trailer trash" vehicle. Well....when I think "traile...
by Adelard of Bath
Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: My ultimate offroader!
Replies: 9
Views: 3239

okay everyone reading this hoping to see sweet pics or read cool info is now surely disappointed. but reading the "other cars like mine" thread along with the more recent "tercel vs honda civic wagon 4wd" thread has made me think that yes indeed the Tercel is my ultimate offroade...
by Adelard of Bath
Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:43 pm
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: I give up
Replies: 29
Views: 10209

I KNOW ALLL!!!!!! Except for...everything that actually matters. hee hee! Yes I was recalling to my dad today of how I redid the fuel lines on an old truck I had and it was actually a piece of cake, after untold days spent on the web saying "tell me how to avoid redoing my fuel lines" and ...
by Adelard of Bath
Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:24 am
Forum: Repair Guides
Topic: Air Conditioning vs Gas Mileage
Replies: 8
Views: 3698

Since it is currently about one degree Fahrenheit outside my house right now, this seems like the perfect time to remind everyone, that if you are cruising down the highway, and it is WARM out, and you think to yourself "I want some air" so you roll down the windows...STOP! cuz open window...
by Adelard of Bath
Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:16 am
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: I give up
Replies: 29
Views: 10209

Hey that's a sweet tip, Chris, I will have to check that out...I haven't touched it in a few days but I will get to it soon... I suppose it only makes sense that my fuel supply line might be just as rusty as everything else on that car, the lines at the tank were rusty, so why wouldn't they be under...