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Getting It Running...


prezucha

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blog-0984687001396737651.jpgblog-0984687001396737651.jpgblog-0984687001396737651.jpgblog-0984687001396737651.jpgblog-0984687001396737651.jpgblog-0984687001396737651.jpgblog-0984687001396737651.jpgGot the car to the back yard where it will rest for awhile... First thing I needed was a battery. My car is 6V but they had one down at O'Reillys. I pulled spark plugs... looked decent. Checked points... A little pitting but not bad. Wires were, well, over 18 years old. Ordered all tune up parts. They sent me 12V coil and points were wrong. Turned the car over by hand and it turned quite easy. Changed the oil... Figured I could try turning it over with the battery. Turned over fine but nothing. Maybe a tiny try firing. Did a lot of forum searching and questions and what I found was the distributor was in in such a way that when I tried to time it the vacuum "cap" would hit the firewall. I figured the distributor was in 90 degrees out or so. Tried to get the distributor out but it wouldn't budge. Tried other things... Made sure it was getting gas. Cleared the fuel line from the tank. Put fresh gas in the tank. Fuel pump needed priming but then worked. I would get a little firing and finally it would start. I could keep it going by using choke, pumping gas, etc, but the revs were all over the place. Sort of like free revving. I give it gas and it would slowly return back down to idle. To make a long story shorter, I finally got the distributor out with a little gently prying and pulling. The O'ring was very brittle and basically disintegrated. It turns out the under the o'ring, the distributor housing was cracked all the way around! I was lucky to find another distributor locally which was not exactly like mine but very close. Got that in and the car ran better. Took a compression test and I had 151, 128, 149, and 150.

Good enough to run 2 blocks to my mechanic. The carb needed be completely rebuilt. The valves were adjusted. All tune up parts installed. Compression test was much better... valve adjustment helped this??

And the car runs good! Pretty happy camper. Next is suspension and brakes. Rear brake cylinders very poor, all bushings shot, shocks shot, etc.

Got it back to the back yard and started stripping out the rear sub frame... Will post info and photos, next entry. Below is a shot of the distributor housing... This probably happened 18 years ago and was why the car ended up sitting. Very hard to spot unless you removed the o'ring!

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