IT'S ALIVE!

[mysavioreigns]

Thank you all so much! It's alive! After a month and a half of trying, it's finally running! Here is the diagnosis.

Turns out, it WAS the timing, as everyone thought. Problem was, I couldn't figure out why it ran great, then when I drove it, it gradually got worse. I figured out the screw to hold in the dizzy was not too tight, and it kept turning. So we fixed it, and tightened that sucker down.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm in the clear. I've still got an exhaust leak and just an overall old and tired engine. But it runs, and for that I say thank you to you all

 

[xctasy]

mysavioruns.
8)
Glad the lads could help you out (basque in glory, people)


I'm not into luck, but there is an aspect of making ones own luck via just having a go.

I mucked around with my 1980 Pinto engined car four five weeks part time before I could get it going. I drove it home, yet I then couldn't get it running afterwards.

In a similar way, I cleaned the plugs in my 82 Toyota Corona, and it didn't run again for five weeks. When everything was tuned, the ignition settings on both cars were out a few thousand miles, yet both previous owners were un-mechanical, and they drove the butts of each car with leaks all over the water leaking all over the high tension coil (Toyo) and no clasps on the distributor (Ford).

Yet I, poor man, do everthing right, and then it doesn't even run. Funniest one was the restrictor jet for one of my Weber cars on the Pinto 2.0 engine. Rather than resetting the float level, some smart man ripped it out of the carb, and dumped it under the float to ensure the car run properly. Of course, first thing I did was remove it, and it never ran right for months afterwards.

Of course, when I did everything by the book after throwing many 50 dollar bills at ignition parts and clean gas, brand new batteries, I eventually got them runing just great. In the process, I pee'd off every neighbour in my street.

So just remember, if you are tearing your hair out, most engines have got 200 parts, and the whole car has got 20 000. So its better to ask questions and then dable a little on the engine and have a bunch of happy Ford nuts help you out.

The message is...ask no one, bear the grief. Share the grief, some one helps, you get the message.

 

[ludwig]

(basque in glory, people)

Glad Euskadi good luck too!

 

[xctasy]

Your E.T.A. will be reduced with people like Ludwig and I.

Not because you'll find our knowledge great, but because you'll be splitting your sides laughing at distributor bodies.

Remember that if you just screw it up, you'll be right on time.


Now, its time to sing...


She's just in time for me
She's right on time
She's right where she should be
She's right on time...

I'm a man with so much tension
Far too many sins to mention
She don't have to take it anymore
But since she said she's coming home
I've torn out all my telephones
Soon she will be walking through that door
I may be going nowhere
But I don't mind if she's there..

(I know its just a car, but kind good that its going!)

 

[ludwig]

Chorus everybody!!!!!!

......I'd'a wrote you a letter but I couldn't spell phffffffthhhh (i.e. wet raspberry)
An' that's all I got to say.

 

[Bort62]

Weirdos...

 

[woodbutcher]

Good grief.I don`t know what SOME of youse guys are smokeing,HOWEVER,I`ll take a bale.Hehehehehe.
Leo

 

[jamyers]

Congrats on finding the problem, mysavioreigns.

The rest of you - pass the bong this way, please.

 

[woodbutcher]

Hey jamyers,I`ll drink to that.
Leo

 

[TeddyXY71]

Hey jamyers,I`ll drink to that.
Leo

If you were in my part of the world I'd shout y'all a few bottles of my homebrew. The honey beer I brewed a while back is drinking very nice at the moment........

Teddy

 

[woodbutcher]

Hi Teddy.Outstanding.
Leo

 

[Anlushac11]

WOOT!

Congrats!

Always love that feeling when your projects works correctly and you can drive it.

 

[Anonymous]

Good grief.I don`t know what SOME of youse guys are smokeing,HOWEVER,I`ll take a bale.Hehehehehe.
Leo

Don't bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to meeeeee. 8)

 

[woodbutcher]

On the way.
Leo