Friday night fights
I’ve gotten lazy or boring lately — I’m afraid to admit the latter, so the former sounds better. It has been a classic case of work,work,work,work, sleep,work. Nothing terribly exciting, just lots of the same. Life should spice up again soon, as I’m heading to Boston Wednesday
- worked on the truck down at The Shop
- rebuilt the distributor — it was in sooo much need of this. All the weights had their round holes ovaled out and it looked like someone took a big electrical shat right in there too
timing, the hard way. Since there were no existing timing marks on the front cover, we got to “”engineer”" a positive stop from an old spark plug and a bolt. For those of you who don’t know, what needed to be done was place a degree wheel on the balancer and rotate the engine around with a wrench until the #1 piston hits the stop. You then reverse the engine until it hits the stop on the other side of the stroke. Take the two numbers and TDC (top dead center) is right between the two marks. Thank god Koelzter knows what he is doing.
Farts really do rise. Yes, I have proof. Here is how you can recreate this bit of “man-fun”:
- one person eat something really narsty (evil-doer)
- other person comes over later, completely unawares. (victim)
- evil-doer is underneath truck placing timing marks on balancer
- victim is working in the engine compartment, blissfully unaware they are about to experience chemical weapons of a variety never before seen in the public sector
- evil-doer (apparently) sharts, keeping the news to themselves
- victim does the usual sniff…sniiiiff sniiiifffffff. “Oh jesus dude, did you shit your self (again)?”
- evil-doer wipes the tears from their eyes as they are laughing so hard. Laugh it up funny boy.
- Wash-rinse-repeat as necessary
The retiming and distributor rebuild did help matters out quite significantly, but did not clear up the vacuum advance issue. The next idea is to rebuild the carbeurator on the beast, seeing where that leaves us. I am pretty sure that if it does not solve the problems, I am going to give up and just drive it — it runs great without it, just sucks a bit o’ gas
