Working on both ends

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Rachael and I put the finishing touches on cleaning the gas tank area.  Most of it is in surprisingly good shape.  First we vacuumed the whole thing

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Side frame rail.  At this point we had cleaned the surface with naphtha and alcohol.

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Back end.  At this point Rachael went to work with a spray can of rust converter on all the rusty areas.  That will have to dry for at least two days.

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While she did that I started working on the power brake booster. I used a short bit of brake line and a plug to keep the fluid from running out of the master cylinder.

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The new booster bolted right up but is quite a bit deeper than the old one.

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To make up the difference the booster came with this little machined extension that goes in the end of the master cylinder.

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Here it is installed.

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I put the master cylinder on the booster and tweaked the brake lines to line up with the master cylinder.  I will have to do some bleeding again.

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There are a couple of problems.  The wiring for the brake light switch barely reaches.  I think it will be all right but if the wire pulls hard at all it will pull the connector right off of there

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The other problem is I did not adjust the booster rod length in any way.  I will have to make sure we have the right brake pedal free play.  If not I will have to unbolt the master cylinder (again) and adjust the rod.

It was well over 90 in the garage but I wanted to try tuning the engine again.

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Here I just adjusted the choke.  I also removed the idle mixture adjustment screws and flushed the holes out with carb cleaner.  The engine started right up but quickly starting starving for gas.  Nothing I did with the idle mixture helped and the accelerator pump does not seem to be working.  Just for giggles I static-timed the engine to make sure that was not the problem but it did not make any difference.  I think there is all kinds of crap floating around in there.  It is also possible the 30 year old rubber parts in there are reacting badly with our 10% ethanol gasoline.  Either way I think I need to take it apart and rebuild it.  But it was hotter than hell so we quit for the day.

 

One thought on “Working on both ends

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    Thank you much

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