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Friends and neighbors! Are you tired of replacing your Hella non-sunroof car dome light every time you look at it sideways because they are apparently made of $70 worth of (currently NLA) pixie dust and prehistoric friable clear eggshells? Well have I got a fix for you! (Disclaimer: don't listen to anything else I have to say. Especially the text below! (Also don't look at the pictures! I'm talking to you, Gerock! ;-) ) ). (Yes, that's the proper amount of parentheseses) FIRST, start with a car and headliner that should have been renewed during the Nixon administration but wasn't, and was then subject to enough wear, tear, disuse, misuse, abuse, and abstruse (and green chartreuse) that it is now almost as pretty as Trump's face (a photo of which is in the news 12 times daily because apparently no one can ever remember what it looks like and therefore needs constant, excessive reminders. But I digress). NOW, all you need is seventeen and .50 'murrican dollars and an addiction to Amazon, which will get you this, in maybe a quarter of a fortnight: https://www.amazon.com/HELLA-61280-Hella-Dome-Light/dp/B000CHPCHC/ Which at first glance appears to look like it maybe will fit into a typ 114 seamlessly. But it won't, of course. Here are some comparison photos (but you know that because you already scrolled down)... Looks like things will go swimmingly, right? You optimist! Clearly you have not been around these cars for very long! Have a look at the tabs surrounding each lamp at the switch end. The replacement lamp tabs extend farther toward the edge of the lens. And I saw no way of trimming them without destruction. So what's a hacker to do, but aim my destruction at something larger (the car itself, I mean...). Ya know, when you have a hammer and a Dremel tool, everything looks like a nail. Or something. It helps to have a somewhat shot or nonexistent, or removed, headliner before proceeding, as well as a healthy dose of reckless abandon! And scant concern for specific originality. (And the luck of not sawing off opposable thumbs during past adventures.) The fore end of the dome lamp orifice is where the doodling needs to occur. The Dremel I used entailed the flex cable attachment, and that made the destruction process a bit more controlled. But not much. The aft end needed no finagling; the spring clip dutifully found it's new home. Okay, look! Installation! Success!! Not so fast, buster! (You didn't think it'd be that easy, did you?)... Why is the silly light staying on even in the "off" switch position? Well, because the lamp ground contacts are... contacting the roof and flexing into the metal switch contact spring. a piece of judiciously placed electrical tape between the two has obviated the issue. There ya go, gentle FAQers! Should you do this to your car? Probably not. But it would make more sense for everyone to drive a Honda anyway. So there! Cheers,

Do you have the dents out of your inka yet? I think we talked about that 8 years ago.

After that, what will you do Tuesday?

Then you just grab it with your trusty Vise -Grips. 😋

Maybe he can use a Dremel on that head to make it more closely match the gasket?

I save my wittier comebacks for you!

Those front diff hanger bushings NEVER go bad!

I'm putting you back on "ignore."

Your 1972 is not an E10. Don't call it that.

Stay... "tuned"? 😁😁😁

How much for the bumper brackets?

Yeah. My personal experience with this was that it worked 50% of the time. 😎

As Steve implied, you can certainly do it yourself. Rob Siegel (hackmechanic) has written extensively about A/C installs. Steve did it. I did it. Many others have. Terry Sayther (and his former shop) in Austin can likely assist as well. Cheers,

Pickup screen picking up rust flakes from the tank. You can mark this as the solution now.

There's not much there there. ;-)

You could have lowered the floor.

Nice example! Cheers,

So far! 😁

Which speed is it? Slow? Or slower? 😁

I use gravity every day! 😁

Of course extending the piston in the MC past its normal position may lead to premature failure. ;-) They say!

I thought this thread was going to be about @conkitchen I am disappoint.

You people who put fluid in the bleeder, sheesh! A quick disconnect coupling added to the hose is your friend as well. Cheers,