You Guys Gotta Hear This!

[Datsun-Fever]

Hey guys, i had just finished fixing my fuel pump, so i took it off the stands and decided to fire her up. So i got my mom out and she watched cause she really wanted to see, i started it and it sputtered, sputtered and popped then after a couple tries i started! after 3 seasoned mechanics had tried i actually fixed it. But thats not the funny part, as i gave it some gas somthing came out of the tail pipe.....DOG FOOD!!?? yea, funny how the mice store there food everywhere.....it was a site, looking back and seeing dog food firing out the back. But i got it started, thats the important thing.

[EScanlon]

Are you sure someone didn't "recharge" your catalytic converter?

Then again, how many miles do you get to the bag?

Or, maybe the PO thought you had to feed it back there in order to get the engine to "growl"...... ta da pum pum.....

:stupid:

[Alfadog]

How does it run? Dare I say....... like a dog?

[sblake01]

And you guys tell me not to be mean!

[ChrisA]

At least he didnt have mice living in the air cleaner box. They dont like getting sucked into the carbys. Chewed right through the air cleaner the little bastards.

[ZwolleY]

That would not be a very efficient way to feed a dog: it would blow the food clear through undigested and you would assphyxiate the dog in the process.

[TomoHawk]

Looks like your "seasoned mechs" had too many pre-conceptions to figure out what was really going on.

Sometimes a "fresh" mind is better than an educated one...

Dog Food....Did the engine rin a "Dog" before???

Do you fill theCAT-alytic convert with KAT-nip??

[billcapp]

How far did the dog food go? Maybe a good indication of compression?:tapemouth ROFL

[Datsun-Fever]

Ahaha!

Actually the car idles just fine but startup takes a fiew tries and sometimes when i gas it the revs actually go down and i can feel a huge power loss. I have a fiew ideas on whats causing this.

[EScanlon]

Something that causes a lot of problems and can be overlooked until many other things have been tried is the Vacuum Advance Mechanism in the distributor.

Take the cap off the rotor, and using the hose that connects to the vacuum solenoid pot, suck on it to create a vacuum. You should see the insides of the distributor rotate a few degrees. When you release the vacuum, it should return to where it was before. Both of these travels should be SMOOTH and not jerky.

Below the point plate there is a plastic plate that houses a few ball bearings. These are notorious for drying up and cracking, releasing the ball bearings and causing the vacuum advance mechanism to not work properly.

2¢

Enrique

[sblake01]

If it take a few times to start up especially when it's cold you need to look into the thermotime switch/cold start valve combination.

[EScanlon]

Now Stephen, don't be mean!

Enrique