[FC] Rampy speedo and stuff

Ron ronh at owt.com
Sun Apr 5 01:47:38 EDT 2009


What does your timing light show you???

RonH

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Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: [FC] Rampy speedo and stuff


>I have a working speedo!! Turns out that I did not have the square end of 
>the cable deep enough into the tranny. I pulled out the end and the wire 
>was sorta twisted so I re - squared it using my dremel with drum grindstone 
>and threaded it back all the way;- Eureka!
> Windshield is intsalled after polishing out the worst of the scratches. 
> Many thans to the guys who suggested installing the gasket around the 
> glass first, then placing a 050 weed - whip cord in the groove. With two 
> neighbors I managed to get it set into place with a miniumum of fuss. That 
> is saying something as I once broke 2 windshields doing an install on a 
> LATE MOdel coupe. All the new guages work except the oil  temp.
> New problem. I have turned the distributor housing as far as it will go 
> Counter - clockwise, and it still runs rough, I suspect that I put the 
> distributor shaft into the hole and was 1 tooth off(?!?)
> poor idle. hesitation when throttle position changes and backfiring.
> Tim '61 Rampy .
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