Piddly Sh*t

["Jeff Wheeler" <j_dubbya@classic.msn.com>]

Spent a delightful afternoon putting on some parts that had resided in my 
glovebox for a month or so.

Item(s) 1:  Instrument panel lights -- This was one of those "why didn't I 
just pop them in in the dealership parking lot and be done with it" kind of 
things.  Till now, I've been getting along on the one light above the speedo.  
Duh.  Actually, I think the thing that kept me away for so long, aside from 
sheer laziness, was a comment I recall seeing here a while back about those 
puppies being soldered in.  I'm a fairly inept solderer.  It turned out that 
the bulbs were as I thought I'd remembered -- a simple 90 degree turn in or 
out, and I was again illuminated.

First time behind the cluster of this one, and I noticed that the doohickey 
holding the speedo cable on was different from my first '82.  I had an eared 
plastic deal before, and this time I find a smoother, earless metal unit.  
Came off easy, though; just didn't look like it would.

Item(s) 2 -- Injector O-rings -- Yaayy!! The cold start problem's gone!!  
Another big duh to me for not taking an hour a month ago. Real easy once I 
stopped trying to pry at the injector remover with a narrow, bendy screwdriver 
and use a nice, thick palm-gouger of a blade.  I'd used a knife before, but 
found that the diagonal pliers made much shorter work of the old rings (didn't 
scare the bejesus out of me like the blade used to, either).  And hey! I made 
one of those fuel-pump relay fused bridge thingies to test the injectors with 
while I had 'em out.  The addition of the toggle switch made this way easy to 
use.  And, I used the gas that spewed into the Mason jar during the test to 
soak the new o-rings in (Shawn!).

The title says it all, but Tickled Sh*tless more accurately describes my state 
after these little victories.

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