Biohazard
First issue on the table is engine status. No matter how pretty your car is, it's not any easier or more fun to push.
As is, the motor runs but that doesn't tell you much. I do know the gas in the tank, what little there is, is three years old so that needs to be rectified. Oil and coolant are clean. Plugs, wires, cap and rotor are newish and the air filter has minimal use so it looks like all that would be required for a trip to the ethanol-free gas station is a battery and license plate borrowed from that VW you see up on jacks in the background. Done. Even poured some SeaFoam in the tank.
With the motor warmed up, I knock out a compression test. 7 of 8 return good numbers; all around 150psi. The odd cylinder shows me 136 and somehow I did the whole test with the throttle valve closed. Oh well, I'll run another test after all the cob-webs are smoked out. Let's move on.
The engine idles well and there is no longer any smoke at the tailpipe. Not concerned with ignition right now so fueling has got to be tended to. Three-year-old gasoline sitting stale cannot be good for the carb which I know has a stuck accelerator pump so, let's get that off of there and give it a full rebuild.
Here's the carb before removal. Ditto the cruise control main unit. With the cruise gone, there'll be one less potential vacuum fault.
Cruise control gone.
Another look at the carb before undergoing surgery.
The level of detail that went into the carburetor got a little stupid. Maybe it was 25 years in the Army but I saw brass and just had to polish it.
First issue on the table is engine status. No matter how pretty your car is, it's not any easier or more fun to push.
As is, the motor runs but that doesn't tell you much. I do know the gas in the tank, what little there is, is three years old so that needs to be rectified. Oil and coolant are clean. Plugs, wires, cap and rotor are newish and the air filter has minimal use so it looks like all that would be required for a trip to the ethanol-free gas station is a battery and license plate borrowed from that VW you see up on jacks in the background. Done. Even poured some SeaFoam in the tank.
With the motor warmed up, I knock out a compression test. 7 of 8 return good numbers; all around 150psi. The odd cylinder shows me 136 and somehow I did the whole test with the throttle valve closed. Oh well, I'll run another test after all the cob-webs are smoked out. Let's move on.
The engine idles well and there is no longer any smoke at the tailpipe. Not concerned with ignition right now so fueling has got to be tended to. Three-year-old gasoline sitting stale cannot be good for the carb which I know has a stuck accelerator pump so, let's get that off of there and give it a full rebuild.
Here's the carb before removal. Ditto the cruise control main unit. With the cruise gone, there'll be one less potential vacuum fault.
Cruise control gone.
Another look at the carb before undergoing surgery.
The level of detail that went into the carburetor got a little stupid. Maybe it was 25 years in the Army but I saw brass and just had to polish it.