"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
08/26/2015 at 18:12 • Filed to: Lunch
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"RallyWrench" (rndlitebmw)
08/26/2015 at 18:12 • Filed to: Lunch | 4
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I didn’t intend to do more than one post about doing things to my car on
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, but hey, 50 year old cars have other plans. Maybe this will be a thing. So the Fairlane picked up a misfire under acceleration on the way in this morning, so I used my lunch break to have a look. Found a couple of fouled plugs, cleaned the electrodes, reset the plug and point gap, fired it up and it’s like buttah. It now idles smooth as
silk
denim and runs as hard as a stock 50 year old Ford 200 can run. It does mean that cylinders 3 and (to a lesser extent) 5 are passing a bit of oil, but considering that it doesn’t smoke and I’ve now put a few thousand miles on it without trouble, this is ok. I even had a couple of extra minutes to wipe down the engine compartment and dust the car off. Considering all the other things going on in life, this counts as a solid achievement in my world.
EL_ULY
> RallyWrench
08/26/2015 at 18:32 |
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today’s victor is not named Victor at all
CaptDale - is secretly British
> RallyWrench
08/26/2015 at 19:48 |
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Awesome! Tomorrow is the day i get my next project. Hopefully I don’t need to call you guys too much over there about the 928. Glad to see other people use their lunches to fix cars. that is my plan.
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RallyWrench
> CaptDale - is secretly British
08/26/2015 at 20:17 |
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Excellent! Any info you need on the 928, let me know.
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> RallyWrench
08/27/2015 at 11:22 |
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Will do! If you had GM, Subaru, and/or Hyundai I would say the same.