Reid,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
However, and you know there's always a however. You MUST have done
something wrong if you have no parts left over. I suggest you take it
all apart again and start over. Mark my words, you will regret it later
on if you don't follow my advice.
Brad
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Simmons, Reid W wrote:
>
> Hello everyone;
>
> After 4+ years of her setting idle, and 8 months of taking her apart and
> then putting her all back together again (with NO parts left over!) I was
> ready to "turn the key". Well, there was a lot of cranking, a few
> "explosions", and then some huge clouds of black soot emanated from the tail
> pipe. OK, so it sounded like a timing problem. I hit the books and
> calculated that the timing seemed to be 180 degrees out of phase. So, I
> pulled the distributor, spun the shaft 180 degrees, and reinstalled it.
> Then with just a slight flick of the key she roared back to life! WOW, sure
> sounded great! She's not ready to be driven yet because I still have some
> front brake work to do, some tuning, and then there's that emissions testing
> thing.
>
> Reid
> '79 Spitfire (original owner)
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