[fintstone]

I used to only post in the tech area...and continually posted help with repairs...but it got so that each person took many, many hours of help as they really knew nothing about the cars...or anything mechanical whatsoever...and had not availed themselves of the vast internet resources or the search engine. Worse yet, many asked for help and then insulted your response or ignored it.

For a while, there were a lot of flippers who bought these cars and simply wanted you to fix them for them online so they could quickly sell them.

Since I had posted on pretty much every repair that I could think of 15 years ago...I figured folks could just use the search function. Nothing has changed regarding how the 70s and 80s cars worked or how to repair them.

Locking PARF out from nonmembers/search served to keep a lot of new folks from coming here via a search...and staying.