Message text written by richard triplett
>Well, after not running for several decades and after
spending considerable time and money, I managed to get
the engine on ol' TS42099L running! Dad was up from
Texas and I decided to see what all was left to get it
fired up. I had everything buttoned up and the engine
cranked over fine, building up to around 80psi.
Distributor was on and fuel was making its way to
carbs (though not very well, I am just funneling fuel
in to a rotary pump). Ran voltage for dist and coil to
a switch and roughly set up distributor. We were
almost out of time at this point, so we just decided
to turn everything on and crank engine a few times to
see what would happen (ie not high expectations). Much
to my surprise, we got a sputter out the first time!
So we choked the carbs by hand (no linkage set up yet)
and tweaked dist a bit and actually got an idle out of
the old girl! So many things could have gone wrong,
but didn't. Needless to say, I'm on cloud nine.
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Congratulations! Great Feeling, isn't it.
Dave
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