Won another zs carb on ebay for $11. Hot damn. The rebuild kit for the bypass valve on the front carb should arrive this week too. I am going to try to switch out the rear carb with one of the others this week. Maybe it\’s something funny I missed with the rear carburetor. [...]
It’s even fun changing the oil – but apparently I need the Chilton for that?
OK cylinder one at top dead center – check. Cylinder five – poisonous spider.
Note the rather ghetto windshield wiper fluid container on the right. I don’t believe it’s Folger’s crystals!
A photo like this would have saved me a LOT of time. [...]
Went out to the car again on Sunday to check out the timing and the carburetors. It is idling pretty high at around 1400rpm. The air valve on the rear carburetor is not rising as high as the front – indicating a vacuum difference? When you pull the air valve up with [...]
Some video of starting up the car for the first time. The backfire is pretty funny – remnants of the last bit of old gas in the carburetors. At this point I haven’t adjusted anything and the timing is set for top dead center. Haven’t touched the carburetors.
This one is after I [...]
Put rotor and distributor cap back on – marking on the cap which connector the rotor was pointed to for cylinder 1. Connected wires. It started right up. Vroom vroom! Idle was a bit weird and when I pulled the throttle I noticed that only the front carb air valve was rising. The rear carb [...]
In an effort to try to narrow down the starting issue, I put 5gallons of 89octane unleaded gas, some lead additive, and replaced the engine oil in the carb dampers with Automatic Transmission Fluid. Next step was to determine top dead center and make sure that the distributor was set right. Dad helped with his [...]
