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The (vintage) beetle drives. Yay! Huzzah! As the kids today say, WOOT!
Since last time, I got the hoses all set up in the gas vent system. I will make a very loooong post about that sometime soon. The bottom line is that you could smell gas in the interior of the car from our first test drive. I managed to make it moderately better, but never go away. I pulled the gas tank summer of 2009 to try to fix it once and for all. I did--I drove it around town today and didn't smell a bit of gasoline once.
I was going to drive it to class on Wednesday, but it was acting funny and so I took the newer car instead. Today I fiddle with it, and I decided it must have been running a bit lean at idle. I didn't fix it, but I let the car warm up a bit before I took it out driving.
However, the really exiting news is that the oil light no longer flickers at idle when the engine's hot! I will make another long post about this, but it means that the work I did on the oil pump paid off and it probably means I'll be able to run this engine a lot longer than I thought.
I'm glad that the car's running, but more than that. Having the engine partially apart on the work bench was mildy scary. In principle it should be something that I could fix by myself...but...there was a very real possibility that I'd converted the car into a bunch of chunks of hard-to-sell scrap. Today I know that not only did I not do that, but I've made the car BETTER on some counts.
Stay tuned for further updates. I'll take it out of town sometime.