New Updates on my '65!

[Mercury Mike]

So..... she runs! Perfectly! Small miss, but I will diagnose tomorrow. I hooked up my tach. She's idling at 700 rpm, and she sounds sweet. My kickdown isn't connected at the moment, but I will fix that later. I need to lengthen the cable to work with the autolite 1100. I pulled the carb off, pulled it apart, sat down with my shop manual, and reset the 1100 to factory specs exactly. I don't use the choke though, CA's nice like that. I let her warm up after I got it started, and I adjusted the mixture so that it was nice, and then used the fast idle to get it up to 700 rpm and at 700 she runs beautifully. Should I set the idle in park or drive? And what's a good RPM to shoot for? I don't have a vac gauge so I can't really check vaccum. Shifts into drive sweet, the shifts are nice and firm like always... it was so great to get back into the drivers seat of my 'Stang! Thanks for all your help guys. I will post my next problem, and hopefully be able to give some insight to some other people! =)

 

[fordconvert]

Mine idles in gear just under 600 with a slight miss and vibration but never stalls. In park its around 750 with the choke off. Choke on around 950.
I think thats a bit above factory specs but 40 years later we cant have everything. You will end up going back and fourth between timing, idle mixture, and idle stop screw since they all effect each other. It helps if you buy a nice long screwdriver to reach the screws on the carb with the aircleaner on and a wrench that fits the dizzy. I have a duraspark dizzy and a 'distributor' wrench hits the vac modulator as does a standard wrench so I just took a cheap wrench out of the junk drawer and bent it a bit to clear the modualtor and it works great, I can get over 1/2 a turn on the bolt without moving the wrench. I think I spent and hour going around the block and back to the driveway to make a small adjustment then back around again and so on...

Pick up a vac pump/gauge. Most of the parts stores have a cheap one for around $30. Not exactally Snap on quality but better than guessing. Pawn shops are also good places to pick up tools cheap, just make sure to look at new ones to see the differnce between a 'cheap' one and a 'good' one so you dont pay $25 for a $30 unit. A pump is very handy for checking the modulators on the dizzy and tranny. Also handy for checking and working on the timing.

 

[Mercury Mike]

Yeah I made my own dizzy wrench too. I can use a 1/2 inch end wrench and get the dizzy bolt all the same.