by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 04/19/2017 at 18:42
by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 04/19/2017 at 18:42
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...to enable replacement of carpets, and I have just received new dizzy vacuum advance, plugs, wires, rotor, and cap, which I am going to go install. Jankiness continues to reduce by approximately 3.26% per week (averaged).
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
04/19/2017 at 20:27, STARS: 0
Thereby guaranteeing that water will get in somewhere else.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/19/2017 at 20:55, STARS: 0
That’s exactly how this works. However, when one’s floorboards are such thin sheet metal they might as well be foil and more water is coming in than on the laughably panel-gappy 1930s technology Land Rover, Something Must Be Done. So, $266 later...
Anyway, plugs, dizzy advance, cap, rotor, and wires took me about an hour and a half, and only that long because I had to search for a half hour for screws to attach the vacuum advance and another 15 to remove the ferruled end off the old vacuum line. Was it able to use the screws from the old advance? Was it balls.
"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
04/19/2017 at 22:02, STARS: 0
I imagine it’ll make the door close feel a bit better too, and it’s always nice to not see daylight around your window frames.
Was the old diaphragm bad, and the new one of, shall we say, foreign origin?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/20/2017 at 09:02, STARS: 0
The old diaphragm was so bad that you could look in the end and see crumbling rubber. Probably a vacuum leak on par with having the line completely dead open. The new actuator might not have been foreign (India more likely than China) and was a Standard, but had a vacuum nipple on the end (instead of a tapered seat) and didn’t have threads in the lower flange. The old one had screws through a top flange, through the dizzy, and screwed into the bottom flange, and the new one just had straight holes in the bottom flange, with the old screws being too short to put through even if I’d found nuts.
Apparently #8-32 x 1" screws with matching nuts are really hard to find in my dad’s shop. I should stock up at Tractor supply.