Adjusted the timing a little last night (it was reading 0tdc and I pulled it back to 10BTDC at 1000rpm idle) and added more ATF fluid to the carburetors. I had also apparently forgotten to reattach the vaccum advance and retard when I put the manifold and carburetors back on. Tweaked the timing [...]
The non-working fuel gauge and temp gauge on the instrument panel has always bothered me about this car. I still may install some third party gauges that are more accurate but I at least wanted the stock gauges to work. I read on a few websites that if these gauges werent working that [...]
Well I haven’t posted in a while because it’s been cold and since I don’t have a garage I haven’t really been able to motivate myself to work on fixing the heat when it’s 30degrees out. Ironically fixing the blower motor will have to wait till spring (when I won’t use it anyway).
In the meantime [...]
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. [...]
I realized that I don’t think I’d uploaded any photos of the whole car. Here’s me checking it out when dad and I picked it up:
