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Originally posted by 83_Camaro_83 I found this pink bicycle in one of the vans, so i rode it around the yard, LOL i got so many looks, my friend was like....oh...my...***...
OMG...lmfao
Me and my buddy had the boneyard olympics 1 time.heres the events:
My friends and I also have the car leap. Put a suspension spring between a hood and an engine and use as a springboard. I have hurt myself pretty bad with that one... Almost put my head through the rear window of a cav...
Originally posted by SDIF How do you know how much you adjusted the timing without a light?
Yes adding timing will always make the engine more stable provided that it will crank.
Nothing funny about this. This is what should be happening.
In absense of a light I would contine to advance in small increments until the engine starts to ping. and then back off.
You CAN NOT trust the balance as it may have slipped and can give false readings in relation to the pointer.
Did advancing the timing get rid of Santa?
Im not sure, I still burn 1/4 of a tank every 2 days.... But maybe santa has left?? I will check when i start it this morning
Ryan - See who can break the most windows in 15 seconds
and LOL at your little spring board.....hahah, personally i take the springs, throw them at the ground and watch them go Im goin there today, meeting an old friend, a reunion of destruction....
ON a side note, Im gonna mist more water down the carb. I put 40 bucks in on monday (full to the top) now i have a quarter of a tank left......I hate this stupid *** engine!!
This thread is getting brutally long. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
Did you get it fixed?
Do you have a timing light?
Do you have a vacuum gauge?
Do you have the tool to adjust your mixture screws? Have you adjusted them?
I have all those, drop by some evening and we can take a look at it if you want...
How are you calculating mileage, US gallon, or Imperial?
If I got that kinda mileage i'd be dancing in the streets though... However, for that mileage I get.... umm, oh right, TORQUE.
I'm a stones throw from dalhousie station. I'm not exactly an expert, but my car is running, and I have the tools, and usually two heads are better then one. PM me for address or phone #.
Well yea in Canada I've never met anyone that told me how many kms/litre they've used, at least not without a big rainbow flag above their head.... My family goes with gallon = 4.55L, the imperial gallon, compared to the 3.79L as the american gallon... That still confuses me... I get my mileage in imperial, and it's not comparable to an americans.... So usually I check first....
Anyway, tommorow i'm going to be helping my brother with his ABS sensors on his car, and building a work bench, but i'll have some spare time.... Go to dalhousie station, go south/west on 53rd ave, it t-bones at Varsity Drive (I think...), take a right at the 3 way stop, next right into the cul-d-sac. You'll see my beat up black-ish T/A and a nice green Crown Vic up on jackstands...
back firing into the carb usually means it's too lean...
usually the mixture is ignited before the intake valve is closed, so if it's too lean the flame propagation (rate the fire spreads in the combustion chamber) will be much higher and backfire into the carb before the valve is closed.
combined with the pause before picking up it sounds like the accelerator pump in your carb isn't working - it should fire an extra shot of fuel into the carb when you step on the gas to prevent the mixture from going too lean, if it isn't working you will notice backfiring and lag in power.
Originally posted by 305q_ta86 lol, think about it. if oil comes out, you've got a big problem. But you dont need to take the plud out. Just take the boot off and hold the end of the boot near a good ground, and you'll still see the sparc arc across. Last year in mechanics we were trying to find the TDC of one of the pistons in an engine, so the teacher told us to take a plug out and stick your finger in the hole a little bit and then try to start the engine. So somehow I got nominated for this task. So I have had an engine start with my finger part way in the spark plug hole. Not the most fun experience, but.. yeah.
I say we have a get together and then other ppl can have a look and see if they can figure out wtf is wrong with your car.
Oh, and, yeah. the cat. Just cut it out and throw it away, and weld in a test pipe, as said above. That;s what I did.
I'd tell the teacher to go f himself. I've heard of people getting zapped by high energy ignitions and causing their heart to go into arrythmia and they're dead a few hours later.
Im goin there today, meeting an old friend, a reunion of destruction....
But whenever you feel like helping a kid out, pm me
