Mayf:
Congratulations! They're aliiiive!
T'other stuff will work itself out, I'm sure.
Best regards, and looking forward to the next installment.
David Sosna
drmayf wrote:
> Been a few days since I update everyone on where we stand on Gary's
> lakester and the SUnbeam wannabe. Started on Gary's car first,
> connected some water pipes, started filling the system with water.
> Going fine until niagra falls opens up somewhere up front around the
> motor plate. I maen water, lots of water...everywhere... well crappa
> dooley. See nothing obvious, so, sigh, off with the motor plate. After
> removing the water pump, the alternator, taking a strain on the engine
> with the hoist, removed the motor plate. Everything looked just
> peachy. Gary slathered on some RTV and back together it went. Ok, so
> no big deal and it was fairly easy to do. Now filling again and WTF?
> Hardly any water going in now. Got air locks somewhere. Solution was
> to raise the top of the radiator during filling and that cured the
> problem. Got all the water in the system. No major leaks now and not a
> clues as to why it leaked in the first place. Go figure. Skip comes
> along now and so we have 3 sets of eyes to watch things going on. And
> his invaluable experience. TIme to bite the bullet and/or fly the
> missile as we usta to say when I was working in the missile business.
> Hit the starter...dead....nada.....zip...ok, some trouble
> shooting....solenoid not kicking in.....bad solenoid, right? More
> later.... so Skip used jumper cables to get the starter working by
> jumpering around the solenoid. We have all done that haven't we.
> BArks! Really shaking bad when trying to start. More farkling, some
> starter fluid (brake clean) and IT LIVES!!! Aftr some more fiddling
> with the 'puter and so fort, runs pretty well. No major leaks, no bad
> smoke...just lots of happy exhaust noise. Now, ahem, I aske dto have
> the small red wire on the solenoid moved to the other small post and
> to ignore the ground wire...works! Can no whit the starter button and
> it cranks. Ahem, Ford solenoid, in a che*vy.... But in good fun. Beers
> were passed out, me I had water. But all in all a pretty happy occasion.
>
> Yester afternoon I had pulled the number one plug out of the SUnbeam
> to find the compression stroke. Wouldn't you know iot, 180 out. Pulled
> the distributor and set it to the correct position. Decided to see it
> it would go. A very LOUD banbg and somwting went whizzing by Ships
> nose...don't know what it was, maybe something in the turbo down pipe.
> Oops, left the plug out. Ok, crawl under the car and put the plug in.
> Now try again and with some tweaking of the distributor and lots of
> throttle , IT ALSO LIVES!!!
>
> Both cars now have run. Mine not so well because I have 42 pound
> injectors in place of 19's so it was lets say a tad rich.. Wee enough
> to set of the smoke detector in the shop and the house. But
> happiness! No wiring changes, all is well, life is good...except that
> the alternaotr did not put out.
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