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  1. Bruce Palmer
    The whole Deming thing came to mind erlier this week when I was talking with a friend at a warehouse here. The man has been in the parts business for, I'm guessing, 40 years or so and had was not aware of the Deming contribution or the lack of vision by our manufacturers. Thought there might be some here who could benefit from seeing the info...
  2. Bruce Palmer
    Who was he and why should we as Datsun owners care?
  3. Bruce Palmer
    Where are your nozzles set in relation to the full up position? I suggest taking them down a half turn and see if the situation improves. If so that would be an indication you are lean which is what I suspect anytime backfiring under deceleration or spitting back through the carbs occur. You might also check for vacuum leaks....
  4. Bruce Palmer
    And that flat line was done using SM needles too. Everybody paying attention?
  5. Bruce Palmer
    I have a bakelight round knob that needed attention thread wise. I over drilled the hole a bit, filled it with JB Weld drilled and tapped it and it hasn't let me down in 8 years of daily driving.....
  6. Bruce Palmer
    Yep, that be the one. Saw it at Canby. Nice lashup and can't quibble about the price. When we put a bullet in our aircleaner efforts we were charging $300 and were losing our hat, arse and overcoat on everyone we sold.
  7. Bruce Palmer
    One common upgrade is to use the stock filter housing and plumb onto the snorkle and run to a cone filter in front of the core support. Does a couple of positive things for you. 1. allows the pickup of cooler air from out ahead of the engine. 2. you are still feeding both carbs from a common source. 3. You keep the air horns that are built in to the stock housing. There was a kit coming together awhile back that was very sanitary. Have we any updated information on that system?
  8. Bruce Palmer
    Craig, Welcome to the board. Pretty good group of folks and quite helpful. I just want to throw out The All Datsun Meet outside of Portland every June. www.datsunsnw.org to tickle your fancy. Stay tuned in......
  9. Bruce Palmer
    Popping back through the carbs sounds lean.....
  10. Bruce Palmer
    Over on the 510 forum there is a saying..... If you think it's fuel, it's electrical and if you think it's electrical, it's fuel........ Oh, and a question if I may..... Why do the needles get adjusted up and down rather than the nozzle which is all about adjustment? I don't think this is the first time I've heard of this being done on here. Needles move an RCH where the nozzles adjust a half mile up and down so to speak.
  11. Bruce Palmer
    But you are saying it falls over as soon as you hit 5 grand right? Doesn't seem to me you'd drain the floatbowls in that short a period of time. Steve had a starvetion problem on the E-prod car but it was at the end of a mile and a half front straight at wide open pulling hard throttle. The second he let off for the turn, the fuel pump caught back up and no more issue until the next lap. If you'd like to talk to him call me and I'll give you the number at the shop. 503-587-9800
  12. Bruce Palmer
    Are the runoffs being streamed this year?
  13. Bruce Palmer
    Oh, okay.... Sign me quizzical
  14. Bruce Palmer
    So what..... a gallon jug will hold more than either. What are we trying to show here?
  15. Bruce Palmer
    Take a valve cover to a welder and have a section welded flat where an overhead mill or such could machine the words "Austin Healy Mark Stealth" or "Factory Super Healey Evaluation Model" cut into it. That'll generate more chin music from the Limey know it alls than anything else you can do. Wouldn't be any stretch to get some sharp writer to come up with background info on this indepth research that went on for years to find the prefect running gear for the Healey and this was what they came up with just before closing the doors ..... Too much, Too late. I'll never forget a hotrodder in my home town had a T-bucket hotrod that had "1927 Pribble" cast in the ribbed valve covers on the 327' Chevy. Watching guys expound on the Pribble Marque at the drivein was really rich
  16. Bruce Palmer
    That Faberge thing, if you knew Steve, is way too funny. These two, Steve and Pam, are the most low key, under the radar people you'll ever be around and I'm sure making a suggestion along the lines of a "glam set" for the 10th would get me beaten..... Too funny. There are, however, some photos in the owners bios section at www.ztherapy.com and as far as I can recall that is about as close to what you're looking for as I know of.
  17. Bruce Palmer
    Hello all, Just a note to let everyone know that we at ZTherapy are coming up on a milestone date. Steve and Pam took possesion of ZTherapy on 9/11 2001 with the exact date being etched in our brain pans because while unloading the "stuff" Scott gets a phone call from Mt. Home AFB telling him to hiball it back to base. Understanding that date carries much more importance to most than us taking the reigns of ZTherapy, I personally want to slip in under the radar and say thanks to all who have allowed us to help keep things running. Ir has been fun bt and large for us and we look forward to continuing the effort in the future. Sicerely, Pam. Steve, Bill & Bruce PS: Mike also thank you for allowing us to hang our hats here.
  18. Bruce Palmer
    If you run all the lines back to the tank and find no wet spots where gas is leaking out and air would be drawn in, then I'd suspect a crack in the pickup tube in the tank.
  19. Bruce Palmer
    For the street driving you are going to be doing, be conscious of where your head can reach in relation to where that bar is. Without a helmet, any contact can send your head snapping over yonder and believe me you don't want a steel tube there when your melon gets there.......
  20. Bruce Palmer
    Anybody have a complete set they can lay out and shoot a pic of for the files here? Anyone found these at NISSAN? At this late date I'd be surprised if they had them or even knew what we woeld be asking about.
  21. Bruce Palmer
    Yes, the early ones work fine. biggest problem rounding up an early aircleaner is to find one with all the attacking hardware included..... The flat tops had a square mouth hence the need for the adapter plates + that air cleaner also looks like it has a growth of some kind on it.
  22. Bruce Palmer
    It's a built in governor to keep you out of the can..... No, seriously it sounds like extended running at that speed is emptying the float bowls. Pains me to say this but you may want to go in there and raise them (the floats) a skosh at which time everything else will need to be re-set as the mixture will be off from raising the float levels. Or slow down..... nyuck nyuck
  23. Bruce Palmer
    Could be a bent shaft or bushings worn allowing the shaft to wander (see "wobble")..... Heard about one where the offset slot had been forced on the oil pump drive so hard it bent the shaft. wobbilyous maximus.... will interfere with all that elecrtical stuff that goes on inside the distributor unless the guts and the housing are doing their dance in tandem...... but that is a whole other story......
  24. Bruce Palmer
    Carbs only need to be filled often if you are overfilling them. I drive mine daily and add ATF maybe twice a year. Top of the inner tube only, not up to the threads. Anything above the tube that rises and falls with the piston just gets sucked into the engine and burnt. s'pose we'll have to go over this a few more times.
  25. Bruce Palmer
    Did "cleaning the carbs" include pulling the final filters out of the float bowl lids and cleaning them? They could be partially plugged restricting fuel flow into the float bowls. Running low fuel levels in the float bowls would show up when you pull the chokes on dropping the nozzles farther down where the fuel level is, making things run better. Hard to diagnose from half way around the world.
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