Seems like its always something
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 11:11 pm
Tom loaned me his O2 meter and I have spent the week working with my carburetor, I won't say I'm working on it do the fact that I am not quite making the progress I would like.
The car does really run good. I just cant seem to get it leaned up the way I like it. The jets keep getting smaller but the plugs are still black.
I seem to have a curse the takes the form of someone telling me "I have never seen that before" I can't count the times that I have heard that.
Now to the curse. I've been keeping an eye on the timing to find a balance between idle and starting. Only moving it a couple degrees here and there. Yesterday evening I checked it and could not find the mark anywhere that it should be. So I'm thinking all sorts of wild reasons, like bad distributor gear, that maybe I had made a big error on something, a bad cap all those things.
So I did the finger in the spark plug hole thing and it goes poof before the marks get close.
I could only think of one thing that could cause this but I had bought a new harmonic balancer for the new build. But I cleared all the stuff that was in the way to get access and pulled it off.
Sure enough the outer ring of the balancer had slipped about 60 degrees!!!
I took it back to the hot rod shop and he was good about it and gave me another one. This is where the curse came in....He sells these all the time even to a lot of dirt track racers.....and he has never seen one come loose.
I have always read about them slipping but in my 50 years of motoring I also have never had one move.....
Now that the problem of the timing marks is handled...back onward to the carb....I got a feeling me and Holley's tech number will be close friends.
Ken
The car does really run good. I just cant seem to get it leaned up the way I like it. The jets keep getting smaller but the plugs are still black.
I seem to have a curse the takes the form of someone telling me "I have never seen that before" I can't count the times that I have heard that.
Now to the curse. I've been keeping an eye on the timing to find a balance between idle and starting. Only moving it a couple degrees here and there. Yesterday evening I checked it and could not find the mark anywhere that it should be. So I'm thinking all sorts of wild reasons, like bad distributor gear, that maybe I had made a big error on something, a bad cap all those things.
So I did the finger in the spark plug hole thing and it goes poof before the marks get close.
I could only think of one thing that could cause this but I had bought a new harmonic balancer for the new build. But I cleared all the stuff that was in the way to get access and pulled it off.
Sure enough the outer ring of the balancer had slipped about 60 degrees!!!
I took it back to the hot rod shop and he was good about it and gave me another one. This is where the curse came in....He sells these all the time even to a lot of dirt track racers.....and he has never seen one come loose.
I have always read about them slipping but in my 50 years of motoring I also have never had one move.....
Now that the problem of the timing marks is handled...back onward to the carb....I got a feeling me and Holley's tech number will be close friends.
Ken