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I think we had a really good day today. :)<br>
<br>
I'm taking vacation from work this week so Shelley, Sam and I can
take some time as a family. We reserved a cabin at a local lake for
a couple of days. It will be nice to get away and just be with
family. That's one of the reasons it was so important for me to get
this fired early as opposed to later.<br>
<br>
Here is how the day went:<br>
- Pressure tested the cooling system, found the fancy thermostat
gasket wasn't going to work, replaced with standard paper gasket and
sealing compound. (that story was in the earlier email below)<br>
- Found oil drips under the car, inspected, found the front bung on
the pan was loose (I thought for certain I tightened it before).
Tightened it over one turn, so I hope it's good now, will continue
to monitor.<br>
- Primed the oil system with my drill and the shaft from an old
distributor. Read oil pressure on the stock gauge in the car.<br>
- Stuck the dizzy and fired her up.<br>
- Set the idle to about 1,750 or thereabouts and let her warm up to
about 196 where the thermostat should open and shut her down.
Allowed to cool a short while.<br>
- Burped the system at the radiator and swirl tank (I have petcock
at the top drivers corner of the radiator; makes it easy to burp air
out).<br>
- Repeat the running/shutdown/burp scenario about four times over a
few hours, making sure the thermostat opens, the radiator is
circulating, the fans come on.<br>
- Used some Engine Brite and a scrub brush on the engine compartment
(now with the car outside), hosed it off, let it dry and then
Armor-All'ed the heck out of it. Looks nice and clean now.<br>
- Installed the hatch loosely (to prevent accidental entanglement
while driving)<br>
- Installed the drivers seat loosely (lap harness kept me firmly in
place)<br>
- Took her for a drive, ran her moderately hard between 45 and 80
MPH in third gear, up and down, up and down for a few miles.
Monitored temps and oil pressure, all seem good.<br>
- brought her home hot, parked, shut down... no boil overs. Wrapped
it up for the night.<br>
<br>
HOLY CATS! Does this thing accelerate now, and that's without
getting into the secondaries! Jimminey, do they go even faster once
they break in? I didn't take it above 5,000 RPM, though I got close
at one point and it seemed to fade. I later remembered the
Pertronix I have in there has a built-in rev-limiter and I think
it's factory set to 5,000. I hadn't bothered to change it earlier
with the stock engine, but now with this magnificent soul powering
her, I had better change it to 6,500 or a little less.<br>
<br>
About the only thing left to do now is put the deck lid back on.<br>
Time to make reservations. :)<br>
Asa Jay<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 8/20/2012 5:25 PM, Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
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Yes, it's ALIVE!<br>
<br>
Mad Dawg wrote me earlier asking about that (possibly) leaking
thermostat gasket.<br>
<br>
I had purchased a brand new reusable gasket from Summit. It's
actually a really cool piece. It consists of a hard material
(kind of like Bakelite) about an eighth inch think with a rubber
sealing surface bonded into it on both sides. The objective is
for the rubber to act like an o-ring and seal both the top and the
bottom.<br>
<br>
I have no doubt this probably works very well for two -very- flat
surfaces. However, in my case, the housing "tube" that connects
the top of the thermostat to the swirl tank is the original welded
assembly. It turns out the diameter of the embedded o-ring in
this fancy gasket is just inside the flat part of the flange
welded to the tube. Therefore, it doesn't seal well in my
application. I checked it this morning with a pressure tester and
sure enough it was weeping coolant.<br>
<br>
Soooooo..... Out it came this morning and was replaced with a
standard paper gasket with some Hondabond on both sides. It now
does not leak.<br>
<br>
I have a brand new stainless version of this pipe with a nice
large sealing area flange on it that I'm sure would work fine.
However, due to other modifications I'm currently using, I can't
use that pipe unless I want to cut it down several inches. I
don't really want to do that yet. I cut down the original pipe
for the current configuration which includes a TEFBA filter. In
the future I'll probably mode the cooling system again and will
use the new pipe and will then be able to test that fancy gasket
again.<br>
<br>
Here's a cool note for today: I installed two drain petcocks in
the engine, with a hose connection on them, this part from Napa:<br>
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This was huge help today as it allowed me to drain enough fluid to
remove the thermostat housing without getting coolant all over the
front of the engine. I have one of these installed on each side
of the engine and in the radiator. It's very nice being able to
attach a hose and route it directly into a container. Helps save
on really messy floors. :)<br>
<br>
The engine is running so rich it's making my eyes water. All I
did was crank the mixture screws to full rich (remember it's an
"emissions" carb and has limited travel of a little over 3/4
turn.) We'll run it this way for just a bit longer and then lean
it out.<br>
<br>
One bad news part. The heat riser didn't fit this manifold, so
I'm running -without- it. Which means.... no choke.
<sigh> I'll have to fix that up some other way maybe.<br>
<br>
Asa Jay<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 8/20/2012 3:59 PM, Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
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<div><span>Teaser Alert - Yea, that is what he looks like when
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Charles Engles <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="mailto:cengles@cox.net"><cengles@cox.net></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
'Asa Jay Laughton' <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, August 20, 2012 3:50 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [TPR] Monday August 20<br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Asa Jay Laughton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 20, 2012 5:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<pre>Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired</pre>
<pre>& Shelley Marie</pre>
<pre>Spokane, WA</pre>
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