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Hey Art -
Thanks for the info re: strapping tape. The heaters have some tape remnants, no stick-um at all. I'll have to use tape to hold the wires, and then see about tying them on with something like ribbon.
Is the 1979 rusty? Yes, but...... (economist's answer). The rust that began as the lower left corner of the left cargo window was unstoppable. I would up with a long patch of brown (matching color) duct tape, which lasted about 10 months. After two or three years of re-taping, too many other things went kaflooey!
Stick shifter got to where it wouldn't go into reverse and didn't much like other gears, either. Odometer quit at 178K.
Head gasket problem kept the temp gauge about and nedle-width below the red, but it ran OK, so....
Blower motor quit - and it was the "new" type with resistor speed controls. I had installed it in a 7-hour marathon, sometime in the early 80's. T'was a bitch to get a 5/8" hole in the bottom of the air box to handle the grommet on the rubber tube that carried the wires and cooling air.
Rust in the base of the left "A" pillar sort of added the last straw. I just parked and quit registering it back in 1999 (I think).
when it goes away this week it will still have in it coolant, motor oil, brake fluid, old old gasoline, and maybe some Freon R12. I was going to try the dry ice overnight thing to recover some of the R12, but it's too late now.
The Homeowner's Association plus the wife.sig are really after me to get the thing gone. I did pull a lot of stuff, and I have a nice long list. It is surprising the number of things that the 1984 and 1986 and 1988 can use.
Regards,
Bob
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