I have one for automatic transmissons (I believe it will also work with manuals, but the other way around is not true -- the auto trans one has an extra bracket). I'd be willing to sell it at a...
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I have one for automatic transmissons (I believe it will also work with manuals, but the other way around is not true -- the auto trans one has an extra bracket). I'd be willing to sell it at a...
So last night I went through and finished disassembling the engine portion of the water pump / cooling system.
I asked around and got some advise as to how to open up the driver's side engine...
There's a few different sets of instructions floating around, and naturally the one I followed suggested the engine block first :D
What I wound up doing is taking a big zip-lock bag that I had,...
This sounds like a good plan to me -- thanks for the idea! :)
Hey guys;
I've been searching around and I find a lot of info on where the engine coolant block drain ports are (I know that part!) and a lot of people saying the best time to drain is with the...
So I cleared out the area around the D well enough that I could jack it up, and I started working on the water pump. My apologies for no pictures; this was all messy work and honestly its stuff you...
AH! Okay, its just a filter that looks different than the old style one. It looks like my pump has one of those on it (which is why I originally said "no filter" because I thought that was just...
Yeah, that's exactly what it looks like -- no filter on the bottom. Thanks!! :)
For what it's worth, I have a D where the previous owner had let bad gas fester in there (2 - 5 year old gas), and worse ran the engine with that gas in, so the whole fuel system was a mess.
If...
Okay, so I didn't get to do much because there's stuff in the way and I can't jack the car up right yet. I SHOULD be able to jack it up tomorrow :) Fingers crossed.
I went ahead and got rid of...
Hey Bill (or anyone else who knows);
The fuel pump you provide in your kit doesn't seem to come with a filter that goes on the tank end of it. There's the soup-can baffle which I installed in my...
So today I put in the new fuel pump. I'll admit, I've been slacking on this one -- I hate dealing with the fuel tank. Its always going to be messy. This time around, I managed to minimize mess...
Okay ... sorry its been a really long time since I updated this. I had a bunch of other calamities come up that I had to deal with :) Now I'm back on this project.
Today, I worked on setting up...
Mine arrived today. I actually bought Special-T's kit so it would come with all the pipes I'd need and everything altogether. I found the price reasonable vs. picking it all up myself.
Oh hey, that's a really cool trick to weld a nut on there -- I'll have to keep that in mind (I've got a MIG welder). I haven't pulled the bolt out yet, but I'm going to give it a try when the water...
So its taking awhile for my water pump to get here for whatever reason, but I anticipate I will be starting up this project again soon.
In the meantime, I'm sure someone else has noticed this ......
Your post inspired me to do some shopping around and I think I can do this for 1/3rd or maybe even 1/4th of what it would cost to use DMCH parts. Which puts it a little more into my price range. ...
I've put in an order for some.
DAY 2
Okay - so I can't install the fuel pump until parts come in, and I want to replace my water pump and associated pipes because of my mysterious coolant in the valley. I can't afford that...
I'll give that a try, thanks for the advise. I've been dreading the Y-pipe bolts since I've read those are notoriously bad about breaking.
Thanks for the clarification!! :) That does make more sense. I'm going to review the pictures you sent me in detail when it comes time to mount the carb itself to make sure I don't have any more...
The barbed bolt mentioned in my post that I could not figure out its purpose, as it turns out, is for plugging the fuel line return hole in the fuel pump boot.
Yeah, I would assume something is leaking or in bad shape in there. There's definitely coolant in the valley. I was going to research tonight how to diagnose where it's coming from. I'm probably...
I actually suspect my KJet problems are fuel pump related so I have no attachments to my current pump. I'd rather run the electric pump provided by Bill, so I will get a replacement boot from DMCH....
Hello ladies and gentlemen;
I just got my Carb Kit from Bill Robertson and I'm trying to do the install. It doesn't exactly come with directions, but none of it is that hard if you know your car....