Tom:
It is hard to explain to some people that driving around with the top
down in 100+ degree weather is like sitting in a microwave oven. I guess
they just have to buy a roadster to understand.
The mechanical dizzy has never really failed me. I did run into the wire
shorting thing back in the 70s, and the points collapsed once when a
Datsun dealership changed them during a tuneup and left one of the
mounting screws loose. The shorting wire only caused one cylinder to
miss and I was able to regap the points with a discarded pop-top I found
alongside the road. Now I have to lug around feeler gauges, darn it.
Those were the days.
Paul
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:25 -0700, Tom Hendricksen wrote:
> I had problems with my points on the way down to Shasta, pulling off of the
> freeway twice to check the problem out before I found the point lead wire
> shorting to the dizzy case. With something like your "means" quote running
> through my head I contacted Dave Brisco and a new dizzy is somewhere between
> his home and mine.
>
> Mr. Hyde has been apart ever since Shasta. I am installing a Mercedes Benz
> pusher fan that fits between the radiator mounts and the radiator core
> without modifying the mounting bars. Then I spotted a radiator leak, and
> now I am waiting for the radiator to come home to be reinstalled. Last I
> grabbed the water pump pully just because... And it moved. Another water
> pump is now in that spot.
>
> Last I will reinstall the heater control valve now that I have figured out
> how to rebuild it and keep it from leaking air from the wrong places under
> water. Once the dizzy is installed I hope we are done for the summer, and
> in time for the BBQ at Bill & Karen Neil's in Shed, Oregon.
>
> Who knows, maybe it will cool down from the 105 - 107 degree range and I can
> drive the roadster again when I get him all back together. Isn't this
> Oregon????
>
> Tom
> 69 2000 - Mr. Hyde
> Portland
> http://www.datsun2000.com
> http://www.nowroc.org
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