[NoVa-Corvairs] Progress Report on My '61
Puglisi, Michael
novacc-list@corvair.org
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:59:55 -0500
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Hi All-
Well, I wish I could report that Darrin and I were able to get my car
running this past weekend, but we weren't. It cranked like a champ (one
small triumph), but we don't seem to be getting a spark to the plugs. We
tried cleaning off the points with an emory board. We tried it with the
coil wire from Darrin's car. We tried messing around with the timing. No
luck. We were really missing Curt's investigative know-how in narrowing
down the problem. Anyway, I'm going to order a tune-up kit and a new set of
plug wires since mine are very old and stiff. We'll see if that helps.
Before we tried to start the car, Darrin tried to remove the distributor so
we could pre-oil the engine. Unfortunately, we couldn't remove it. We
removed the nut and the clamp as usual but the thing wouldn't budge. Any
thoughts on this? It's probably the original distributor and has probably
never been removed.
We also noticed that the left carb isn't pumping any fuel into it. I'm
going to order a couple rebuild kits.
Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts on removing the distributor.
See you this Saturday at Daniel's. Thanks.
-Mike
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Hi All-</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Well, I wish I could report that =
Darrin and I were able to get my car running this past weekend, but we =
weren't. It cranked like a champ (one small triumph), but we =
don't seem to be getting a spark to the plugs. We tried cleaning off =
the points with an emory board. We tried it with the coil wire =
from Darrin's car. We tried messing around with the timing. =
No luck. We were really missing Curt's investigative know-how in =
narrowing down the problem. Anyway, I'm going to order a tune-up =
kit and a new set of plug wires since mine are very old and =
stiff. We'll see if that helps. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Before we tried to start the car, =
Darrin tried to remove the distributor so we could pre-oil the =
engine. Unfortunately, we couldn't remove it. We removed =
the nut and the clamp as usual but the thing wouldn't budge. Any =
thoughts on this? It's probably the original distributor and has =
probably never been removed.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">We also noticed that the left carb =
isn't pumping any fuel into it. I'm going to order a couple =
rebuild kits. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Please let me know if anyone has any =
thoughts on removing the distributor. See you this Saturday at =
Daniel's. Thanks.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">-Mike</FONT>
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