You just had to replace the cable at that oint by disconnecting it at the transmission and new speedometer and getting a universal speedometer cable and shortening it to match your odld cable, but if you put some oil down the cable at the speedo end , it did not vibrate or break. I forgot to mention that in the 50s, Chrysler recommended changing the oil filter every 2nd oil change and on many cars of the early 50s, the oil filter was an option. My 71 VW bus came with no oil or fuel filter.
Back in those days, the “oil filter” on VWs consisted of a metal screen that would trap anything larger than a small pebble. 
In other words, it was useless on the types of oil contaminants that are experienced in the real world.
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I just noticed that texases beat me to it!
I had 30 in my vw in South Dakota. The weather turned cold and it wouldn’t stsrt. Since sir cooled, I got a dipstick heater that I don’t even think you can buy now. That did it until I could get it to the dealer for 10w30.
Around here we have a last name beginning with f. If I typed it, I’m sure it would be censored. You have to be very careful of the pronunciation. In the army we teased the guy a little but he was a pretty big guy but nice. Why they didn’t change their name to Anderson or Johnson or something I have no ideal. In college there was a girl with the same last name as the German term. Just gotta be careful and respectful I guess but I’m keeping mine.
Ok, the back-story is needed here… Reggie, my friend, was pulling my leg (he knew this story, but was not a car guy…). You see, when I first bought the Cat. I did a minor tune-up, plugs, points, and condenser… When I put it all back together, it would not start, just a little puff (weak backfire…). I have several friends joke that I put the rotor in backwards and I knew I did not, I was very careful about this… (GM Rotors have two index pegs, a square peg and a round peg…). If you try to put it on backwards the rotor does not sit square and rocks… I looked at the rotor and made sure the round peg went into the round hole…
I was so darn sure I did not screw up, I refused to check. One of my Buds, Mike popped the distributer cap off removed the rotor and then started laughing…
He showed me the rotor and it was clear that it had been installed backwards. The Square Peg had all it corners stripped off… He put the rotor back in, but backwards, square peg in round hole and round peg in the square hole…
The car started right up… Sometime in the car’s past, whoever gave it the last tune up had messed up and to get it running again, they cranked the distributor all the way around…
I guess the first hint of this was the port window you slide up to insert the Allen wrench to adjust the dwell, was on the backside facing the firewall…
I took a lot of ribbing for this over the years… And yes, the points I put in were the ones that lost the contact causing the loss of spark…
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Yeah I thought the round Gm rotor was impossible to put in backwards, not like the push on versions. Give the guy credit I guess for masking it run. That’s what I liked about Gm though, open the window to adjust the points.
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That oil screen is much finer than the factory one on my 71 VW bus, I could tick a skinny ball point pen through mine. I did not kno when I bought the bus new that it did not have an oil or gas filter. When the car was one year old it was running bad it took it to the dealer and they diagnosed it as a dirty carb and charged me $100 to clean it and it was no covered under warranty because “It’ not VW’s fault you bought dirty gas”.
They then tried to sell me a super micronite fuel filter for $43 and install it for a additional fee. I stopped on the way home and bought an inline fuel filter for $1 and cut the fuel line with my jacknife and popped it in. So much for German engineering. lso VW was still using an oil bath air cleaner you were supposed to remove once a week or month, I can’t remember to check the battery electrolyte.
In a sense, you were lucky that you had a VW bus, instead of a sedan, because the sedan’s battery was placed underneath the rear seat–on the right side. That caused few owners (or mechanics) to check the electrolyte. I vividly recall what I had to go through in order to jump-start my brother’s VW.
Think about it… If the VW was parked at the curb, the car with the good battery was on its left. The distance from the donor car’s battery to the VW’s battery was longer than most jumper cables. 
Yes the older ones had a square on one side and a circle on the other to keep you from installing the rotor 180° out, later GM rotors some/all only had a notch cut out on one side to keep it from being installed 180° out…
That being said, they are called idiot prof, not mechanic prof, meaning we (mechanics in general) will sometimes mod a part to make it fit/work..
You can have the distributor housing install correctly, but that doesn’t mean that the dist gear and shaft (13 teeth on a dist gear on a typical 60-70 Chevy engine) is stabbed correctly, meaning you can have it off 13 different ways, each being 27.7° IIRC…
You can rerun the spark plug wires to correct it by changing the location on the cap… That is why you are supposed to bring #1 cylinder to TDC on the compression stroke and point the rotor towards #1 cylinder…
You can also clock the shaft correctly but the housing wrong causing you not to be able to set the ignition timing correctly, not enough room/clearance to retard/advance the dist…
I just replaced my coffee maker mesh screen. I don’t use paper filters. Like a vintage car oil filter.
I have tthe mesh filter but don’t use it. It’s more difficult to clean than the paper filter. To clean the mesh filter, I’d have to rinse too much grinds down the kitchen sink. Coffee grounds will eventually damage the disposal and clog the drain pipe.
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One other advantage of the paper filters - shown to trap oils that can slightly raise cholesterol.
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I have the mesh filter that came with the machine, but I don’t use it–for the same reasons that you mentioned.
I much prefer to use a disposable paper or bamboo filter.
I have the mesh filter and have taken to using it exclusively. I think it’s probably better for the disposal to just have the coffee grounds going through it than to have both the paper filter and grounds, which is what I used to do when using paper. The disposal meant to dispose of waste like that. Clog the drain pipe? 40 years of making coffee and never had a clogged drain from coffee. Potato peels at Thanksgiving yes, but that’s it.
I would think the plate of corned beef hash I’m eating along with the coffee would offset any gain from cleaner coffee. 
My cholesterol is quite low, thank you.
They still sell dipsrick heaters but mainly at tractor supply or similar stores. Plugs in like the Blick heater we had to start the 70 510 on a cold morning.
Dad owned a Bug from the early 60’s at best he bought in 69 and the real worry was the doors freezing while he drove to work. Had to roll down the window and crawl out. He lived in that light blue bug in between collegea nd his state job. Driving to see mom on the weekendsto get mail. .55yrs later she’s mostly gotten over how the bug wouldn’t go into reverse and he hadn’t shown her the trick. Plus the fuel reserve instead of a gauge. Made her Datsun seem civilized
My ■■■ father was a plumber. My mom asked him once if it was good or bad to put coffee grounds down the drain. He would not answer. I still don’t know but don’t do it. Just throw th3 k cup in the trash.
Yeah he had a studebaker car and truck. Then traded for a Plymouth fury. He had promised me his wood working tools but his wife just sold them. Great guy. Being from Norway, built the ski slope at st.olaf.
I never put the paper into the disposal. The filter and coffee grounds go into the trash. The installation manual for my disposal has a list of things not to put into it, and coffee grounds is on that list.
Bill bryson in his return to America from the uk found the garbage disposal fascinating, coffee grounds really made a mess when you turned it on. Best attempted while the wife’s away and there’s a mop and ladder handy. Raised in Iowa he moved with his English wife to the uk for several years.
Hmm. I can honestly say I’ve never read the operating manual for a garbage disposal. But since you brought it up I looked up the manual for mine, and it makes no mention–good or bad–about coffee grounds:
Scrape garbage into the disposal. Down the drain go table scraps, peelings, rinds, seeds, pits and small bones. To speed up garbage disposal, cut or break up large bones, rinds and cobs. Large bones and fibrous husks require considerable grinding time
It does list things not to put in the disposal, feathers being among them but nothing about paper coffee filters:
Your disposal is ruggedly built to give you years of trouble free service. It will handle all normal garbages, but it will NOT grind or dispose of such items as plastic, tin cans, bottle caps, glass, china, leather, cloth, rubber, string, ■■■■ and oyster shells, aluminum foil or feathers.
I’ll just say the disposal is only the start of a long journey through the pipes. The plumber told my bil to use more water after he got done cleaning out their pipe. So I’m kinda careful what I grind up knowing it has about 60 feet to go.