time of her life
not really. raimi apparently doesn't like heavy rain...*sigh*
last weekend i went over to an old friend of my brothers' place early on sunday morning. he builds harley's from scavenged parts...his last (first) one was a fuckin' beast. really hot. either way, he's got lotsa tools and knows how "engines" work and he welds, too, so he said he'd take a jab at my cracked exhaust header. unfortunately cast aluminum doesn't weld very well...and but he did seal it a BIT better than it was before, so that's cool. he also let me borrow his timing light...which brings me to tonight.
didn't wanna get too far into 'cause i got home kinda late, but i suspect that part of the problem is the timing. the last owner ran regular fuel in her (oh the horror) and retarded the timing. i run higher octane...and i think that's putting it outa' sync. it always works a lot better when it warms up...but lately she's been actin' up a lot so i decided to check it out. turns out my timing is indeed about 1.5 degrees retarded (heh, retarded)...unfortunately i don't quite know how to fix that....yet. the directions say to "loosen the base clamp bolt and turn the distributor" or something...sounds scary so i figured i should really know what i'm doing. but yeah, at least i know where one problem is.
also found my idle adjust screw in my carb. one of raimi's previous owners installed an edelbrock carb (among other things) so i have to find a manual or something on it...although the four things i REALLY need are easy enough to find. in time, in time, but timing is first on the schedule. maybe saturday.
oh...and workin' in the garage...running the car....damn...i'm gonna asphyxiate myself on carbon monoxide...or get high and pass out on the fuel vapor. high octane gas smells niiiiiiiiiice.....*kerplunk*. and jess passes out and gets his face scraped off by the fan blades and his ears ripped off by the cam pulley. yay.
raimi love.
last weekend i went over to an old friend of my brothers' place early on sunday morning. he builds harley's from scavenged parts...his last (first) one was a fuckin' beast. really hot. either way, he's got lotsa tools and knows how "engines" work and he welds, too, so he said he'd take a jab at my cracked exhaust header. unfortunately cast aluminum doesn't weld very well...and but he did seal it a BIT better than it was before, so that's cool. he also let me borrow his timing light...which brings me to tonight.
didn't wanna get too far into 'cause i got home kinda late, but i suspect that part of the problem is the timing. the last owner ran regular fuel in her (oh the horror) and retarded the timing. i run higher octane...and i think that's putting it outa' sync. it always works a lot better when it warms up...but lately she's been actin' up a lot so i decided to check it out. turns out my timing is indeed about 1.5 degrees retarded (heh, retarded)...unfortunately i don't quite know how to fix that....yet. the directions say to "loosen the base clamp bolt and turn the distributor" or something...sounds scary so i figured i should really know what i'm doing. but yeah, at least i know where one problem is.
also found my idle adjust screw in my carb. one of raimi's previous owners installed an edelbrock carb (among other things) so i have to find a manual or something on it...although the four things i REALLY need are easy enough to find. in time, in time, but timing is first on the schedule. maybe saturday.
oh...and workin' in the garage...running the car....damn...i'm gonna asphyxiate myself on carbon monoxide...or get high and pass out on the fuel vapor. high octane gas smells niiiiiiiiiice.....*kerplunk*. and jess passes out and gets his face scraped off by the fan blades and his ears ripped off by the cam pulley. yay.
raimi love.
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