sweatys rebuild

[madkaw]

It should work and I've read of numerous people that have done it.


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[heyitsrama]

Wow that heater hose system looks great, did you make that yourself?

Did you have to rethread the oil pressure threads to accept that T fitting?

[sweatybetty]

1 hour ago, heyitsrama said:

Wow that heater hose system looks great, did you make that yourself?

Did you have to rethread the oil pressure threads to accept that T fitting?

thanks. i made that out of 1/2" copper water pipe. it measures 5/8" od. as far as the oil psi threads, i didnt touch them. the metric threads are almost identical to 1/8" npt

[sweatybetty]

its a great day to be sweaty!!!!!!! skip to about the 10 minute mark for the really good stuff. all the smoke is from the header wrap.

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[siteunseen]

Sweaty is better I always thought!

The sweatier the better, just don't breathe too deep!

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[Mark Maras]

 Great way to start the day.  A big cup of coffee and your (audio porn) video. It sounds fantastic. Well done. Congratulations.

[sweatybetty]

what a crappy couple of days!  i had the pig running, but didnt have any timing advance, el-cheapo trash plug wires from auto zone, and a loose rotor, a pos timing light that didnt work when i needed it to, and the distributor was 180* out!!!  so i decided to pull the distributor and found the centrifugal  weights were sticking. no problem. took it apart, lubed everything, and all was new. so i thought in the mean-time, since the distributor is 180* out, why not fix that, make it like it shows in all the books. i ended up pulling the oil pump 6 times before i found that lining up the little spot on the distributor drive shaft with the oil hole on the oil pump was wrong. doing so ended up 180* out.  long story short, i now have everything lined up as shown in the fsm, but the rotor is 180* off, the car runs like a scalded ape, and i dont give a squat. my timing is set at close to 15* btdc at idle and runs up to about 37* at 2k rpms. sounds great.  more to come...........its beer-thitry

[madkaw]

Your going to have those days. I don't miss my dizzy or any of the related parts to it


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[siteunseen]

I hate the FSM.  $50 dollars I spent for one, used one page two times, fluid capacity for the transmission and the differential so I'd know how much to order from amazon.com. 

Glad you got it though, after 6 tries I'd be throwing beers and taking whatever killed Elvis.

[sweatybetty]

ok, so here is my fix for the loose rotor. 8-32 set screw (2 for a quarter) with a little blue lock-tite. it does not move at all now, and only took about 3 minutes

[sweatybetty]

from pakistan with love.

ordered these seat covers from interior innovations last sunday. showed up today. my first impression is very good, but i will follow up when i get them installed. it is amazing to me that i can order a part, it gets delivered to my door from halfway around the world, nice quality, but it takes twice as long to get something from somewhere i can drive to in a day.

 

[Zed Head]

Are they really from Pakistan?  There was a big kerfuffle about Nike soccer balls being assembled by Pakistani kids, a few years ago.  Maybe they moved on to seat covers.