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W1K1
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Forgot to mention i picked up a vintage speed shifter last week, big improvement over the worn out stock shifter.
All new bushings and a proper type 3 hockey stick showed how bad the stock shifter was.
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68notch
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Hey W1K1, I also got one the vintage speed shifters and found it to be very tight to shift which was frustrating at first. It's better now with 1 year of weekend use but could still be a little better. I loosened the bolts on the ball and lube it all the time.
Is yours like that or better out of the box?
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W1K1
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installed my Faux VDO tach 
works pretty good for a princess auto $25 chinese tach.
lets see now..... gutted a stock clock from the junkyard. bought cheap tach. pulled the face, needle, glass,off the tach. Took the stock face from the clock with the numbers on and clamped it in the drill press and started sanding the plastic down on the back till the numbers are gone. put new numbers (water slide decal) on the front the same orientation as the numbers on the tach and clear coat it. I tried to have BOOM for 7000 rpm but I couldn't get the letters to line up nicely.
luckily the Chinese tach face screws and the clock housing face screws are really close to matching up attaching the old housing with revamped face and the new together was easy.
Then it was the needle I pondered this thing for a long time. I had 2 needles from an old sirocco gauge cluster but they were not the same size as the new tach post, plus the shaft from the needle is not long enough to reach. what to do, what to do?
Then I started thinking something skinny like a hypodermic needle, small enough inside to grab the tach post and I could drill the hole bigger in the needle if needed. Turns out I have a "Chair doctor" glue kit with a big fat needle that just slides on the post, and fit inside the needle. So cut to length and dab a spot of superglue on the ends.
I had a new glass cut for the face, a freebee from a "hot rod" friendly glass shop. As soon as the wife explained what it was for they just said good luck and sent her on her way.
So now I have a tach is a viewable spot in the dash and an oil pressure gauge in the old spot.
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IAMIROY
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Very cool, nicely done 
Taking orders? 
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:47 am Post subject: |
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So the other night i'm fiddling around with odds and ends I've been fixing on the car while waiting for new jets in the mail.
I pulled the fuse block out so i could reach the gas gauge from behind and find this
My ignition switch is relocated in the console since the switch in the column has been sketchy. This is the wire from the fuse to the switch. Thankfully it was wrapped with two other wires in shrink wrap so not exposed Except the section just before the fusebox, which i noticed when i pulled the fusebox out.
I'm guessing it was when i shorted a wire from the coil on the old motor. It smoked a lot  so i might have missed this one since i was at the back working on the motor.
As for my jets, i ordered them to ship priority air 6-10 days, but they shipped them 1st class to save me money, so now there is no tracking and no set delivery time frame. 
Thanks for thinking you were helping but i would rather have parts in hand to get something done on a long weekend, than wondering when they going to show up
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W1K1
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Been a while...
I got my new jets 55 and 52 in the mail, the 55 were right in the hot range 14.5 afr so I went to try the 52's and they were not all the same size I had 3 that fit snug on the 50 pin of my jet gauges and 1 that slid on the 55. So sent them back and ordered 52 and 50 from ALFA1750 on ebay, they arrived in a week.
in the mean time I thought I would try the undrilled 60 idles since the drilled 57 were pretty close on the rich side. waaaay to rich, smelled gassy fouled my sensor (Black sooty).
So I'm going to pull the carb, check the plugs and valves and my CHT gauge for accuracy before I change jets again this weekend.
I have a weird thing going on with the stock fuel pump, it seems to heat soak real bad and boil the gas which is pushing fuel past my floats.
It doesn't over power the floats and flood if I have a gauge in the tee fitting but as soon as I take it out, it floods. I'm guessing the diaphram in the gauge is absorbing the pressure instead of the needle seats.
I have the fuel lines not touching the case, but i did a temp check on the case after sitting for 1/2hr to 45 min in the garage and the case read 100F while the pump which was making gurgling sounds measured 125F.
I think I may just wire up my spare electric pump and run that, I've never had a problem with them on our other 2 cars running dells and electric pumps.
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Waiting 20 minutes at Rest Stops to get our stock '67 to fire up got old! I wouldn't blame you for ditching the mechanical fuel pump.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| W1K1 wrote: |
I have a weird thing going on with the stock fuel pump, it seems to heat soak real bad and boil the gas which is pushing fuel past my floats.
It doesn't over power the floats and flood if I have a gauge in the tee fitting but as soon as I take it out, it floods. I'm guessing the diaphram in the gauge is absorbing the pressure instead of the needle seats.
I have the fuel lines not touching the case, but i did a temp check on the case after sitting for 1/2hr to 45 min in the garage and the case read 100F while the pump which was making gurgling sounds measured 125F.
I think I may just wire up my spare electric pump and run that, I've never had a problem with them on our other 2 cars running dells and electric pumps. |
Since you've got an AS 41 case, I can't help you. But on my all aluminum case, I had to switch over to an electric pump, otherwise the pump would vapor lock on shut down. The carb bowls stayed full, but the pump wouldn't push fluid, even with the electric pump running.  What I couldn't understand though, was that IF you left the engine running, the mechanical pump kept pumping.  But with it now on the electric pump, I don't have that issue at all. 
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W1K1
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:31 am Post subject: |
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My wifes 2110cc with aluminum case did the same thing, drove us nuts piddling with that one. I finally had enough sitting waiting for it to cool off, swapped hers out after a couple months and a couple stock pumps.
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I found it out the hard way, on the way to the 2010 Invasion. After the first time that it happened, I just left the car running for the rest of the day. If you were at some place where the car was allowed to sit off for more than an hour or so, it was fine, but it really hated rest areas.  But after I got back from the Invasion, I had it do it again after a 3 mile drive to the paint supply shop (with a 20 minute sit), only to find it did it again. In that case I already had the electric pump in place, so I just removed the hose from the pump outlet, and plumbed it into the fuel feed line to the pump, and drove home. Since then, the electric pump has been in place, and I also haven't had that issue again with it on the Notch. 
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W1K1
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Got the new pump in after several hours of fartin around making a bracket for the beam
I wanted to get accurate numbers on my VDO CHT gauge so i pulled a cam out of my parts pile and set the gear on the stove till it was over 400F. Then i clamped the sensor to it and started measuring as the temps went down.
400f gauge = 300 at the ring
350 - 250
300 - 200
250 - 180
225 - 150
200 - 130
So all the time i thought it was running hot, it's not.
It sits at 350 most of the time.
Now to check my oil pressure with a gauge in the oil cooler and do some testing with my new 52 idles
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| W1K1 wrote: | Got the new pump in after several hours of fartin around making a bracket for the beam
I wanted to get accurate numbers on my VDO CHT gauge so i pulled a cam out of my parts pile and set the gear on the stove till it was over 400F. Then i clamped the sensor to it and started measuring as the temps went down.
400f gauge = 300 at the ring
350 - 250
300 - 200
250 - 180
225 - 150
200 - 130
So all the time i thought it was running hot, it's not.
It sits at 350 most of the time.
Now to check my oil pressure with a gauge in the oil cooler and do some testing with my new 52 idles |
get dakota digital cht gauges, they are are temperature referenced to a constant temp and will always read true no matter the ambient.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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pressure gauge reads correctly, but the 52 jets protest a lot.
i'm hoping for good weather tomorrow so i can run on just the idle for a while and see where the afr is with them
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:41 am Post subject: |
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I'm waiting for my new mains to show up, the 125's seem rich.
I had an interesting front end development the other day, maybe it had to do with the 8 66lb bags of concrete I was carrying last week.
My steering felt loose, I had a couple inches of play in the wheel. I had the bolts come loose on the box before and had the box moving on the beam which felt similar. So I crawled under the front the other day to check those, nope all good. Then I grabbed the rubber coupler to see if there was something loose or torn, then i noticed the splined shaft from the steering box moving in the coupling The bolt had loosened just a smidge and that little bit translated to a couple inches on the wheel.
The bolt still had the metal lock plate, and was reasonably tight. I replaced the bolt and nut so everything is nice and snug again. steering is back to normal now.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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I sure hope we don't have to fart around with carbs much.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:56 am Post subject: |
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I got my setrab cooler last week from Aircooled.net, very nice set up.
The only spot i can find to mount it is next to the trans because we are still running the heat exchangers.
I am wondering about the early Type 3 heat exchanger set up with this though.
The heat exchanger itself doesn't have an outlet on it for venting the hot air, it is on the attachment to the body. Which vents the hot air in the summer when it's closed right at the front next to the trans where I was planning on mounting the oil cooler. Not an ideal situation
I have a set of late ones, I may have to swap them and come up with a connector and hose to replace the early set up on the body to keep my heat.
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