I got her out of the shop on Friday and she purrs like a kitten. I spent Friday evening cleaning her out and drove to a show later in the evening. Saturday afternoon she got a new set of tires on the stock steel wheels (195 65/15). It drove a little rough all weekend until [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After a couple weeks of cleaning, rebuilding, and sitting on these carburetors I decided to take them out to the car and give them a shot. I was optimistic – they were clean inside and out with fresh rubber parts and clean metal. I even cleaned the damn screws. I obsessed a little. I drove [...]
