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Re: Saturday Fun BAsh at the Shop

To: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Subject: Re: Saturday Fun BAsh at the Shop
From: sosnaenergyconsulting <sosnaenergyconsulting@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:39:10 -0700
Mayf:
Congratulations!  They're aliiiive!
T'other stuff will work itself out, I'm sure.
Best regards, and looking forward to the next installment.
David Sosna

drmayf wrote:

> Been a few days since I update everyone on where we stand on Gary's 
> lakester and the SUnbeam wannabe. Started on Gary's car first, 
> connected some water pipes, started filling the system with water. 
> Going fine until niagra falls opens up somewhere up front around the 
> motor plate. I maen water, lots of water...everywhere... well crappa 
> dooley. See nothing obvious, so, sigh, off with the motor plate. After 
> removing the water pump, the alternator, taking a strain on the engine 
> with the hoist, removed the motor plate. Everything looked just 
> peachy. Gary slathered on some RTV and back together it went. Ok, so 
> no big deal and it was fairly easy to do. Now filling again and WTF? 
> Hardly any water   going in now. Got air locks somewhere. Solution was 
> to raise the top of the radiator during filling and that cured the 
> problem. Got all the water in the system. No major leaks now and not a 
> clues as to why it leaked in the first place. Go figure. Skip comes 
> along now and so we have 3 sets of eyes to watch things going on. And 
> his invaluable experience. TIme to bite the bullet and/or fly the 
> missile as we usta to say when I was working in the missile business. 
> Hit the starter...dead....nada.....zip...ok, some trouble 
> shooting....solenoid not kicking in.....bad solenoid, right? More 
> later.... so Skip used jumper cables to get the starter working by 
> jumpering around the solenoid. We have all done that haven't we. 
> BArks! Really shaking bad when trying to start. More farkling, some 
> starter fluid (brake clean) and IT LIVES!!! Aftr some more fiddling 
> with the 'puter and so fort, runs pretty well. No major leaks, no bad 
> smoke...just lots of happy exhaust noise. Now, ahem, I aske dto have 
> the small red wire on the solenoid moved to the other small post and 
> to ignore the ground wire...works! Can no whit the starter button and 
> it cranks. Ahem, Ford solenoid, in a che*vy.... But in good fun. Beers 
> were passed out, me I had water. But all in all a pretty happy occasion.
>
> Yester afternoon I had pulled the number one plug out of the SUnbeam 
> to find the compression stroke. Wouldn't you know iot, 180 out. Pulled 
> the distributor and set it to the correct position. Decided to see it 
> it would go. A very LOUD banbg and somwting went whizzing by Ships 
> nose...don't know what it was, maybe something in the turbo down pipe. 
> Oops, left the plug out. Ok, crawl under the car and put the plug in. 
> Now try again and with some tweaking of the distributor and lots of 
> throttle , IT ALSO LIVES!!!
>
> Both cars now have run. Mine not so well because I have 42 pound 
> injectors in place of 19's so it was lets say a tad rich.. Wee enough 
> to set of the smoke detector in the shop and the  house. But 
> happiness! No wiring changes, all is well, life is good...except that 
> the alternaotr did not put out.

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