After an evening spent outside in the cold drizzle, and another where it was just freezing cold, I finally have the carburetors running well. A lot of my struggle was with the throttle stop screws. This was a pain in the ass to adjust with a flashlight in my mouth and rain dripping down the [...]
The new waterpump, alternator, and radiator are in the car – after fighting with it for a bit last night. Didn’t clean all the old RTV sealant and so the first shot at putting the waterpump back on and filling the radiator resulted in a leaky mess. Jim and I took everything back off, cleaned [...]
Jim came out the other night and helped me drain the coolant, get the radiator off, and remove the old water pump and fan assembly. We tried a number of insane things to get the bolt off the fan coupling but it didn’t budge. At one point we had the water pump in a vice, [...]
