[T3] My 1974 Type 34

[DGaries808@aol.com]

I've tried to send this message twice, but go thwarted when the computer got 
an error. Here goes the third time.

Tuesday I picked up the Type 34 after certain repairs, mainly to the A/C. I 
was disappointed in that nothing was right. I drove it home, about 40 miles. 
I had previously found a problem with the electric windows not working. That 
problem was fixed, and I stopped by my pad. I thought that somehow I had made 
it home without the electric door lock clicker. So I got my second copy of 
the clicker, and it didn't work. Then I drove over to Furr's Cafeteria to get 
some lunch and locked the car up with the key. The car wouldn't open with the 
key, and I was stuck. I just knew that all
of this problem was related to the electric windows that wouldn't work.

Wednesday. I got up early and called A-! Locksmiths to get into the car. They 
got into the car in about 5 minutes. Then, I located the electric door lock 
clicker that the
mechanic had used. It worked fine, but unfortunately had been locked up in 
the car. Turns out that the second copy had a bad frequency and wasn't giving 
me the signal.
I contacted AUTOLOC and they said that they would reprogram it for me, but 
that didn't help my locking the car up with the key and not being able to 
unlock it.

Anyway, $48 later, I drove the car back out to Rockwall to complain. That's 
when I found out about the bad frequency of the second clicker. I drove right 
back, and while I was at it got a line on the seemingly bad Tachometer. I 
called VDO and got specs on the tach faxed to me.

Thursday, I went back to Rockwall to get the Tachometer  fixed, thinking it 
was just some little adjustment. It turns out that California Imports had 
sold me an old Tach, and it was broken (it was reading 1200 rpm when it was 
really about 600 rpm and it
got up to 6000 when driving about 70 mph. The tach was reading about double. 
VDO said that a diode should be attached to the Tach because it was reading 
both ways, But it wouldn't adjust about twice even with the diode. So, I sent 
the Tach back to VDO.

Meanwhile, I tried to get the gas gauge leveled up. But that didn't quite 
work, as I couldn't see the down-to-the-right adjustment. Will have to try 
again next time I go 
out. Then, the horn wouldn't work anymore. Jerry West religiously attacked 
the problem, which I thought he had created. He didn't create the problem 
after all. It was
left over from Kelly's. A soldered ground wire had come unsoldered inside the 
steering
column. 

All the work Thursday cost me $150 extra + $48 locksmith charge. And I need 
to go back one more time. Meanwhile, the paint chipped off the dashboard 
abound where
the Tach fits. That's going to coast me more to get fixed. When will I be 
thru?

The new A/C 2-belt system now has about 250 miles on it, and is still working 
fine. Keeps me too cold. Before, I got about 100 miles on the one belt system 
three times in a row.

Don Garies
dgaries808@aol.com



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