Saturday, June 30, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Trans Mount
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Timing Chain
Replaced timing chain. Also checked to see if the vacuum level rose when I disconnected the brake booster. No difference. Retimed and test drove... no more backfiring!
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Drove Lucille over to Eddings with '49er parts but the place was locked up. We headed home and at one point I mashed on the gas harder than usual and was greeted with stumbling and a nice backfire up the carb! Eased off the gas, and she continued as if nothing had happened. I tried again and yes, I could repeat the symptom at will. We got home just fine, of course, and I checked the carb mounting bolts and tested vacuum levels. It was a bit low: leak in the setup that goes to the wipers. Capped that and adjusted the timing. Setting it a bit higher than spec. A test drive revealed the stumbling and backfires were cured but now I had ping. I backed off the timing again and the backfires returned, though not as bad. So now I've tweaked the timing so that the backfires are gone but there is still a tad of ping under certain conditions.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Exhaust!
Installed the new exhaust that arrived on 5/23. Everything came apart very easily and I had no problems with stuck or broken bolts. I think I might have spent about eight hours on the whole thing. I ran short one clamp so technically it isn't "finished" yet, but I fired up the engine and oh my! How nice and quiet she is now!
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Friday, June 1, 2007
Tires
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