RE: Vacuum Advance It works only above idle, as best as I understand. It only worked when I sucked on it and the vacuum held as I put my tongue...
Vacuum Advance The vacuum line was stopped up with 45 years of whatever. The advance mechanism works fine now and I notice the difference,...
Vacuum Advance TEST Thank you, I will look at it this weekend. KentC
Tune up The old 53' sure runs better with new points, plugs, valve adjustment and timing set. There is a noticable difference in going up hills...
Underneath the engine, in between the flywheel (the dustpan cover I have removed) and the oilpan looks like the rear main bearing cap. Looking at...
RE: Valve Adjust TOOL II It would have been nice to have Sunday. Son worked the open end wrench and I operated the short & fat screwdriver. It...
I did use a fat and short screwdriver, but still it was very difficult for me. I use a pole to hold up the hood because my spring slot is rusted...
I set the valves on the 235 today. I let it run for 30 minutes at idle, then drove it around on the hiway for 20 minutes. It was hot enough to...
RE: Valves & Hot Missing I thought I would check the valves while at the 450 idle speed, after a thorough warmup of the engine. I wanted to see...
Valve Adjustment Procedure Thank you for you help. Yes I have the valve layout and yes I have the shop manual. I will study the instruction(s)...
It was a real chore for Son and I to put the two piece headliner on. We put the front on first and had to trim some off the back, to make it fit....
The following is what Son (good eyes) found for us - (since the image is upside down, rotate flywheel 180 degrees in your mind so as to read...
I read the valve setting procedure on www.speedprint.com/deves50/valveadjust.html, as instructed by Mr. Nathan Hall. We cleaned the flywheel...
The experience I had was that mine had to be pounded out and it took 2 days of pounding, then soaking in WD40/penetrating oil/light oil,...
I replaced my king pins about 6 months or so ago. I got lots of input into the subject then. Look in the archives (or maybe not archived yet)...
RE: Dizzy Installation We cleaned the flywheel very good and it has no BB mark, only the tiny triangle. Viewing through the flywheel window, I...
You are correct, it was my grease cup. I looked at the manual instructions, saw the nickle looking thing and assumed it was some device that...
No, the plug wires were not removed, just the cap lifted off and held out of the way. And there is only one way the rotor cap goes on. I thought...
I could not get the distributor/vacuum oval connector screw/bolt unfroze to reset the ignition timing, so I took out the distributor from the...
Thank you for the advise. Kent
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