Farrar's car blog

[Farrar]

I keep a tool for testing spark in my car at all times.

A screwdriver and a set of non-conductive gloves? ;-)

[Ron]

A used spark plug?

[stevedmc]

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/acc...entifier=10257

[sean]

A used spark plug?

+1

[Farrar]

Steve came over last night and we swapped intake manifold/carburetor assemblies. Although my engine didn't idle perfectly, it idled a hell of a lot better on his carb/manifold than on mine, so we decided to rebuild the carburetor. (I only did a half-job of it last time.) While we had the thing apart, he noticed that I was running #50 jets in my carburetor. This could result in a rich running condition, so he installed a set of #48s that he had on hand.

The super-thick gasket that Bill had mounted the carburetor on top of in almost four years ago was toast as soon as we pulled the carburetor up, but that gasket did not come with the rebuilt kit. I decided to use the spacer I had bought off of eBay last year in place of the thick gaskets, and just use ordinary paper gaskets on either side of it.

Unfortunately, the spacer is thicker than the thicker than the mounting gasket. So I will take out one of the studs from the intake manifold and take it to the hardware store tomorrow to find longer replacement studs. Knowing that Bill gets most of his hardware from McMaster, I am tempted to think that it's a metric part, since the nylon hex nuts have a 13mm diameter -- but strangely, McMaster doesn't sell stainless nylocks in metric, so I will rely on the good folks at Ace to determine the size and thread pitch of the stud, so that I can buy appropriate replacements.

To be continued...

[stevedmc]

Steve came over last night and we swapped intake manifold/carburetor assemblies. Although my engine didn't idle perfectly, it idled a hell of a lot better on his carb/manifold than on mine, so we decided to rebuild the carburetor. (I only did a half-job of it last time.) While we had the thing apart, he noticed that I was running #50 jets in my carburetor. This could result in a rich running condition, so he installed a set of #48s that he had on hand.

Yeah. What he said. I'm not even a carburetor guru according to this forum btw.

[sean]

Yeah. What he said. I'm not even a carburetor guru according to this forum btw.

Poor Steve. It's a good thing you have DMCsouth then.

[Farrar]

I'm not even a carburetor guru

Neither am I, according to Bill.

I don't like the term "guru" anyway -- I have visions of someone approaching a Tibetan monk at the top of a mountain to ask what size jets he needs in order to keep his engine from bogging down at idle. Not very "zen," is it?

[stevedmc]

Poor Steve. It's a good thing you have DMCsouth then.

DMCSouth sucks. At least on here there are people for me to tick off.


On another note, Farrar forgot to mention the hot blonde we saw last night. I think she was genuinly interested in me.

[jawn101]

On another note, Farrar forgot to mention the hot blonde we saw last night. I think she was genuinly interested in me.

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