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Recently bought and want to learn to work on it 200 1982

posted by  bru on  Sat Aug 2 09:40 CST 2003
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Be sure your tool kit includes whatever you're comfortable with (fine sandpaper, nail files, small-caliber bore brushes, Q-tips and brass cleaner, etc) for cleaning electrical contacts, some sort of fluid electrical contact cleaner, and a protectant for the clean contacts. Taking a slow afternoon to follow one circuit after another under the hood, cleaning, taping, and diagraming as you go, is both useful learning and good preventive maintenance.

When budget permits, in addition to the items others have listed, you might want to invest $10-20 in a multimeter, and peruse this board and elsewhere about all the things it can tell you re continuity, excessive resistance, mysterious current drains, etc.

You have a potentially great car--enjoy!
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We have met the enemy and they is us. Pogo






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