Oh, that was painful. Running the engine dry to squeeze out the last cc of dirty oil ... I felt sick. And then running on a fill of diesel. And the bottle jack on the brick, without any back-up. CRINGE.
Also, the valves sounded really loose - an adjustment would have been helpful.
Dacias were imported here in the early to mid-80s. They were a Romanian-built early-70's Renault, similarly to how the Lada Signet used old Fiat tooling. I didn't seem them around for long. My friend's dad phoned me one day, perhaps around 1986, to help him with a no-start on his Dacia, which I think was an '84. The distributor still had breaker points, and the 12 V supply connection had come loose. Easy repair. While checking out the car I was surprised to find a hand-crank handle included, just in case. They loved the car, and said it was much more comfortable than the '78 or so Olds Cutlass it had replaced. They didn't keep it for a long time, though, and I didn't see any of these around after about 1990. I think for a backyard mechanic like me it might have been a good car.
If I recall correctly, the body style was very similar to this, although the one I worked on was robin's egg blue:
We also got the Lada (USSR) and Skoda (from Czechoslovakia) here in the same era, but never the famed Yugo.
Also, the valves sounded really loose - an adjustment would have been helpful.
Dacias were imported here in the early to mid-80s. They were a Romanian-built early-70's Renault, similarly to how the Lada Signet used old Fiat tooling. I didn't seem them around for long. My friend's dad phoned me one day, perhaps around 1986, to help him with a no-start on his Dacia, which I think was an '84. The distributor still had breaker points, and the 12 V supply connection had come loose. Easy repair. While checking out the car I was surprised to find a hand-crank handle included, just in case. They loved the car, and said it was much more comfortable than the '78 or so Olds Cutlass it had replaced. They didn't keep it for a long time, though, and I didn't see any of these around after about 1990. I think for a backyard mechanic like me it might have been a good car.
If I recall correctly, the body style was very similar to this, although the one I worked on was robin's egg blue:
We also got the Lada (USSR) and Skoda (from Czechoslovakia) here in the same era, but never the famed Yugo.