Since I bought this car I’ve had issues with the choke cable. The entire mechanism would move when I pulled the choke – thus it wouldn’t actually raise the choke on the rear carb. It was just pulling the whole cable back and forth in the hole in the firewall. This week I decided to [...]
It’s been a while since I posted here but a whole lot has been going on.
I blew the head gasket driving it back into town to my mechanic. I was going to take it in to have the brakes done but about 3 miles outside of town it started spewing coolant out of the [...]
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 [...]
In searching the web for information about the Zenith Stromberg 175 CD2SE carburetors in my Volvo, I found this amazing PDF. This is perhaps the most concise and well illustrated document I’ve seen. I think my heartrate went up a little when I found it! It gives me a much better understanding for how they [...]
I got a good start on cleaning the front carburetor this weekend. It is really gunked up – I am halfway into my second can of carb cleaner and not even done yet. The only screws I haven’t been able to get out are on the top unfortunately. I was going to cut a notch in the [...]
Put the new sparkplug wires I got from NAPA on the other night. Autozone and Advance didn’t have them and I tried Napa as a fallback – but not only did they have the right ones but I spent half an hour talking with the guy at the counter about them. He picked out some [...]
Friday after work I stopped by Autozone (mistake) and then Advance to get some parts. I got plugs at Autozone but I’m not convinced they’re the right ones because the old wires didn’t fit with them. Nowhere had the wire sets in stock (which sorta puzzled me) so I’m either going to have to order [...]
