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Re: [Roadsters] The tale of the leaky carb

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Subject: Re: [Roadsters] The tale of the leaky carb
From: Paul Bauman <plhbauman@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:41:08 -0700
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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