Tag: engine
Tune up and shifter work
fI took the car for a drive to warm it up then hooked up the tach and vacuum gauge to adjust the idle mixture. I turned the mixture screws 1/4 turn at a time adjusting the idle as needed. I think I found where the vacuum is highest, but it seems like the screws are awfully far in.
The vacuum also seems a little low. The car has a really lumpy idle, which I sort of expected from the odd-fire engine but I suspect I might also have a low-speed miss. I will have to check compression. I might have a sticky ring or something.
The car pops out of first gear, which according to the manual is most likely the shifter out of adjustment. That bolt in there is 5/16″ in diameter which fits in two adjustment holes in the shift levers.
Here is the bottom of the shifter. That bolt is going in through the hole you can see up top.
To adjust the linkage I need to loosen the bolts at the bottom of the shift levers on the transmission. Then center the transmission shift levers in neutral and tighten the bolts. The problem is I can’t get the levers to move on the transmission. I think I need someone to hold the clutch in or maybe jack up the back wheels. But I am alone and it is getting dark so I just tightened the bolts back up and took the car for a test drive. No improvement 🙁
Jeepster lives!
I went out this morning determined to get the timing set up on the Jeepster. I got so into it that I neglected to take many pictures. I did take this one. I was very proud of getting the dwell dead on at 40°. There is only one problem, the dwell is supposed to be 30°. I don’t know where I got 40° from but I had to do everything over again.
Fuel and ignition
First order of business is to install the thermostat bypass hose. I dug up some new hose clamps since the old ones were pretty ratty. Continue reading “Fuel and ignition”
More engine assembly
Now that the valve train is together we are ready for a dry run. First I need to drain the oil.
Head is back on
\Digging into the top end
I need to figure out what is going on with the #3 intake valve. It is obvious something is wrong. First step is to remove the rocker arms Continue reading “Digging into the top end”
Chasing the miss
I am a lying liar who lies. Back in this post I said that the #3 cylinder had compression. But before tearing into the engine I decided to do a compression check on all the cylinders
