It works. Load on; ON. Load off; OFF. Works triggered right down to a 60 watt incandescent bulb:
“. . . I ain’t the man I used to be . . . but for one-more-time; I am as good as I ever was.”
Steve Unruh
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My dad put a 350sbc and th350 transmission in a 1976 XJ6, I believe even the splines go right in. I forget if he had to shorten the driveshaft or not. He claims that it “Ran like a scalded dog” after that.
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This one’s got a GM T400 three speed transmission. So if I go with a 350 swap I wouldn’t even need a transmission. Even most of the suspension and various other parts are all GM made.
Swapping the engine though would give me almost infinite power upgrade options.
There is just something about a v12 that is so cool. I’ve just got to hear it run. I think I’ve narrowed it down to a fuel delivery issue.
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Hope you and your car are okay! 
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Washington State law you can take home road kill?
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With your “government permission slip” yes
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We are still into yard & garage sales season here.
Hard to resist the pull of these for me and the Wife. Penny’s to the dollar versus even new Chinese. Pick and choose carefully and quality made finds can be found:
Another all metal Kirby vacuum for me. And this one the top-of-line model with attachments and a paper manual. Able to hold up a “Wilson”.
Asking price was cheap, cheap:
the green tag says $10. USD.
I found this sale was a three household fund raiser for a youth to attend fall community college.
I insisted they take $40. because of the attachments and manual which I’ve never had.
S.U.
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is that the gen iv ? I love the kirby’s, except I don’t like how you put the tool on it. They pick up everything.
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I could have used one of those when I was a young man.
TomH. these all after generation II have power drive rear wheels. You engage a foot operated drive/neutral flipper lever in the rear. It has micro-switches built into the base of the handle. Handle push forward and it drive itself forward. Pull the handle back and it drives reversed.
Easy actually to open area vacuum.
The three valid criticism’s are it cannot low directly low vacuum like under couches and low beds. And it is heavy, heavy to carry up and down stairs. And as SeanO. says it is a stop and four steps process to change over to hose sucking.
But unlike the new darlings of Dyson’s and Sharks it sucks much harder and empties directly into a deposable layered paper bag. No muss, no fuss filled bags changing out.
Now these new “bagless” systems??? You will eat a lot of dusts fully servicing all of their 3-4 levels of actual internal filters. Do outsides after checking wind directions. Then have to wet rag mop the whole outsides.
My Wife and most others (two sisters) never do this!! Just remove and dump out the main clear plastic catch chamber. Then within weeks, to a month the bagless will start dusting the house in use from clogged secondary, tertiary and final stage HEPA filters. I have to leave the house when she vacuum with hers. Reacting my sinuses. Unless I man-up and fully clean service it for her every few weeks she is ordering a newer, better lightweight all plastics Shark. The various chambers seals on the previous then all shot and leaking.
Ha! My Kirbys are banned from the house. Me? Only if I’ll keep my mouth shut. Sigh.
S.U.
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I second what Steve said, it is right on the money. They are great for open spaces on a single floor even have enough suction for edges. I have a second vacuum with a hose for the rest of it. And it does not go up and down the stairs, it is heavy, but the power assist makes it glide.
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Ha! Today I fully pre-cleaned one of the Wife’s newer Shark vacuum cleaners before loosing it on our new foreign exchange student.
Count the many filthy dust-making steps:
First remove and open up both ends of the capture canister, dump and shake out, then having to hand dig out the stuck hairs, fuzz and stringing clinging.
Next the end chamber doors seals have to be brushed; blown; or vacuumed clean of the fine dusts spilled out that would prevent sealing.
Then the washable foam filter must be water washed and thoroughly rinsed and dried.
Then the under multilayer next level fiber filer is supposed to be replaced. Nope. No pre-bought new. So beat it clean re-aerating all of that fine dusts; or again using another vacuum, suck clean.
Then remove and replace the last actual pleated paper HEPA filter. No new. So tap out excessive build ups; reverse vacuum clean.
No-no. Not done yet.
Have to brush clean of spilled dusts at the into the canister flange and seal.
STILL Not Done Yet. Have to wet wipe down all of the external surfaces now coated with stirred-up cough-cough dusts.
Versus:
Zip open. Very cleanly remove and replace a one-use bag. Many bag variations available including activated carbon layered; thicker layered HEPA rated; and even a Febreze infused scented.
S.U.
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Some stuff followed me home yesterday, two Briggs&Scrapiron, one is really worn, the other an ohv, 14,5hp, could be useful.
And a chinese generator, haven’t been running more than 1/2hour, should be working, need to try to start it soon.
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My patience paid off. After 20 years of wanting a garden tractor with a PTO, I found one for free. It has a PTO on the front and back. A friend of 35 years had this sitting in his garage for the last 15 years. He said it ran when he parked it. It also comes with a snow blower and tiller.
It has a plastic gas tank, so I put a half gallon of gas in it, and hooked a battery jump pack to it. After about 5 seconds, it fired up and shut down. Fuel leaking from the carburetor. I took the bowl off to make sure the float goes up and down, put the bowl back on. I fired ut up again, and no more leaking. I bought a new battery for it. It runs like a champ. When i have time, I’ll drive it back in the garage to change out all of the fluids.
This is an Ariens S-16h with a Kohler engine. Im guessing around 1975.
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Those older Kohler motors are the best. You can still get parts for them and rebuild them. The garden tractor pulling guys love them because they are easy to “soup up” a little.
GC
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Found these at a yard sale today. The big one needed a fuel line and runs great.
The small one needs a lot more help but it has good compression and it only cost me $25 .
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The big one is a partner 950
Small one a Stihl ts350
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