On your first repair you usually learn something. You learned to be more careful. I learned to be much more organized When i replaced my water pump. i wasnt paying attention to the bolts. They were differrent sizes!

 

This is like a mini series where they leave you hanging until the next show. I CAN'T WAIT

I hope all turns out well. It is nice to see a husband and wife working together on a project like this. I think you had better do it this time.

 

Yeah, That stinks. Pulling off the timing chain cover and gears is not a pretty job, or easy.

 

Pulling off the timing chain and all that other stuff takes so long we aren't even going to tackle it until Sunday.

I did get my dash back together, though.

 

What did you replace on the dash? Anything electrical? Or just the dash pad?

 

We actually didn't replace anything in the dash, we were looking for a way to wire the tach, but decided against that route.

We checked the timing chain and set it on 6 BTDC and it is still popping. We are beginning to think that the pointer has been bent or broken and we can't find a pic of one. Does anyone have one?

Christine is still losing power. We opened the carb to 2 and 1/4 turns and that made it worse, so we think that the pointer is wrong and making the mark off by a couple.

We are going to try backing it down to the 4 hash mark and see if that helps.

She runs, she just doesn't sound very good. Sounds like she's sick...

 

Timing it by ear may be your best bet since the the pointer on the chain cover is obviously bent out of whack.

 

Thanks Soaring.

I am going to upload some pics from campus in a lil while so everyone can see her. I figured it's about time. lol

I will let you know what happens after we work on her tonight.

 

Sounds like you all are getting it. I usually use a timing light then time it by ear, and then drive it and tweak it.

 

does anyone have a picture of where you point the timing light?