Woot. Parts are here. I was hoping that it’d be warm tomorrow so I could work on the distributor, but I think it’s going to be cold. The good news is that the primary coil is hot, it’s just not firing on the secondary. I’m going to pull the dist assembly and replace the points, condenser, rotor, cap and wires. If that doesn’t get some fire, then I got bigger problems.
Dear M$,
I hate Vista. No really, it sucks.
401
ps, I’m carboning Firefox because I just lost all my bookmarks from a BSOD on your wonderful OS.
Vintage 1988, shortly after restoration and upgrades. There’s a couple of pix of Dad and I at an autocross school in Radford, and a race here in town. It’s hard to believe that we were that young once.
Ok, so now I’m learning all about ignition systems, old school. I found my spare brain, and it has a Bosch referb sticker on it. I pulled the installed one and it looks like it’s original equipment. I swapped them out, but still no fire. And then there’s the distributor…..
There’s another kick to the nuts, I got no fire and no joy. Yet another subsystem that needs working on. I’m about ready to tow it to a shop and get them to fix it. It’s cold as a bitch and I’m frankly getting tired of finding shit to fix. I completely understand the fuel system thing, and the brakes, but damn, not even a weak spark at the plugs. Oh, and it’s not the coil, I checked that already.
What a day. The first thought that comes to mind is “the best laid plans of mice and men.” That’s what today was. Sure, I planned on driving to West By God, but not as late as I did. Nope, not gonna break rule 1, other than to say that I’m pretty tired right now, and I got some O rings comming. They still have Shoney’s out here, unlike back home.
The people here are very nice. Kind of strange, but welcome at the same time.
I tried uploading some new pix, and the FTP kept crapping out. Seems like the webhost servers’ home drive has filled up. I got my pix uploaded by deleting some unneeded files and quickly uploaded what I needed to. Hopefully the admins are aware of this and they get some bigger drives soon.
Well, I encountered an issue with the fuel system. I have to re plumb the upper fuel system. Unfortunately it’s got fuel in it now, which is gonna be a hassle. And I have to replace the fuel injector seals. Meh, done it once, I’ll do it again.
The good news is that the new stainless lines are on the car. Woot! I’m considering this a major accomplishment. One of the clips that holds the union for the flexible lines is a real pain to get off. I won, nuf said. I really have to dump some pix and post them in the gallery.