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The plan is to replace them with abrasion resistant ETFE.

Replaced primary and secondary fuel filters with spin-ons. Bypassed the FDC. Now to turn down the fuel, install pyro, replace the old and brittle plastic fuel lines, and replace oil filters with spin-ons.

I used the license plate light from Erik's, painted it green, and tied it into the adjacent tailight service light.

Yep, that's pretty much the way I felt (feel) driving mine. Glad you made it back safely, albeit with a much smaller roll of duct tape.

Installed A3 style instrument cluster with all new gauges in my 87 A2, 'cept speedo and tach, and replaced low air buzzer. PO had replaced '87 cluster with older model that did not have hole for hydraulic failure light--he simply left it hanging under the dash. Fixed.

Welcome from NC's coastal plain.

And yet another Virginia welcome!

Welcome from Vanceboro, NC and Lynchburg, VA.

If I read the ZDDP dosing chart properly, it looks like 4 oz. of ZDDP per 5 quarts of oil. http://zddplus.com/how-it-works/

Here is a snippet from the wiring diagram for the four-terminal starter switch (TM 9-2320-386-24-1-2, pg 750).

Ditto. Marine Corps orders, at least when Shep was a pup, were quite specific about where and how to mark vehicles (TM 4750-15/??). Hood markings were the protocol.

Finally got my rear license plate illuminated.

When I was stationed in Alaska (MB Kodiak) we used to use the fat from ham and limas to cook our freshly caught salmon. Yum.

Oh yeah--who loses with the ham n limas? Uses: Driving to the local pistol range.

There is at least one in eastern NC (Kinston), about 3 hrs from the VA-NC border.