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Went for a little ride in the snow this evening.
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Sgt_Mike said:
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@DAA I Would love to have that old Girl .
My father had the same model would go anywhere.
Would work well to drive around pastures on a gopher /PD hunt.
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I had one too. Last time me and a buddy stopped by to check on this one a few years ago, we talked about coming back with some supplies and seeing if we could get it started. Just for the heck of it. I think we could. The motor barred over just fine. Has oil that doesn't show water. I think some fresh fuel, plugs, wires, cap and rotor, a battery, maybe a new starter, I think we could get it to fire.

Here's the one I had.

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- DAA
 
DAA said:
Last time me and a buddy stopped by to check on this one a few years ago, we talked about coming back with some supplies and seeing if we could get it started. Just for the heck of it. I think we could. The motor barred over just fine. Has oil that doesn't show water. I think some fresh fuel, plugs, wires, cap and rotor, a battery, maybe a new starter, I think we could get it to fire.
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Cool. I'd just have to give it a try out of curiosity. :ROFLMAO: Rats work over abandoned vehicles down here pretty quick. In fact, had to keep a mesh bag of mothballs under hood when I left jeep at the ranch a few months at a time, even when using it 3 days/week every week.
 
I have a story about the old Scouts. Back in the mid 70's when I worked at a Ford dealership in Globe Az.. we had a lady customer who owned a cattle ranch and only seldom came to town for necessities. She showed up one day and said the Scout wasn't running "right". I asked for more info and she said it is using a lot of gas and is slow to respond to the throttle, just fix what needs to be fixed. She takes off to town to attend to other business and the mechanic proceeds to diagnose and finds the old Scout needs a major tune-up. New spark plugs, a couple plug wires, points, condenser and adjust timing as well as rebuild carburetor. When the air filter lid was removed there was a huge packrat nest so that was cleaned out too. Back to the ranch she goes only to return about 3or 4 weeks later complaining the old Scout was still using a lot of gas. We double checked all our previous work and all appeared well so I asked her to show me what her procedure was when she was coming to town. She gave me a very skeptical look and climbed in and proceeded to go through her routine. First thing was to pull out the choke knob and hang her purse on it and then start her up. When I told her the knob she was using was the choke she said "well that's how I do it". It took a little convincing but she said she would not do that anymore.
 
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