Now one wonders, if you lived on the left coast would you get the dizzy
in right everytime?
I saw a coil split open like a hot dog and ooze goo, but never an
exploding one.
Dave
Frank Clarici wrote:
> Everytime I rebuild an engine and stick the dizzy drive gear in, it is
> 180 out? I have a 50/50 chance and like modern plugs on tools, I get
> it wrong 100% of the time!
>
> And why is it I have this nice rebuilt fresh painted engine and I
> always manage to have an oil leak on first start up? This time it was
> the banjo nolt on the block, I had it tight but I needed to make it
> tighter to crush the new copper gasket thingy. Oil all over my nice
> new 1098.
>
> I got my new rings, bearings, and gaskets Friday. I stated putting it
> back to gether Friday night. Saturday was an Oshit meeting at Chris
> Kings and I got home too late to mess with the engine. Today I
> finished it up and fired it up to break it in. Runs nice, 65 psi oil
> pressure when hot, no smoke, no knocks, I guess I did good ;)
>
> And here's a "why is it" you won't hear of too often.
> Why is it the coil I was using, and have used on other start ups,
> decided to literally blow up? Like in shoot black *stuff* about 7 feet
> across the garage.
> I was mopping up the gas that spilled out of the bowls on the floor
> right under the open exhaust manifold (I didn't want to set the garage
> on fire) The coil was still hooked up and laying on the floor, engine
> not running, I heard a fizzle sound, looked arounf and then it went POW!
> And shot it's load quite a distance. Black tar like stuff.
> It was hooked up correctly and it wasn't even a Lucas coil, it was a
> Bosch!! Anybody ever see this happen?
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