"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
04/01/2019 at 11:00 • Filed to: project golf ball
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"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
04/01/2019 at 11:00 • Filed to: project golf ball | 3
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This is me wallowing in self pity. It is a lot of fun. You should try it some time. I did attempted some wrenching this weekend and it didn’t go super well.
First off I took the Honda’s distributor off to try and discover the source of all my troubles. This went fine, though several bolts have been lost to the engine bay. I got the distributor off and had a promising find! A hidden ground on the back of the dizzy. Maybe this is part of the problem.
It was all pretty much downhill from there.
The distributor cap has a 70mm o-ring seal, which is both broken and NLA. RTV it is.
I went ahead and re-tested my vacuum advance and that turned into “an thing”. The advance canister has two ports, one advances immediately upon applying vacuum, the other doesn’t hold vacuum at all. I can’t seem to find any information on which one should be connected to what and why. The FSM shows testing the lower one, which should move the stator at 20 inHg. Neither of my pods does this, so the vacuum advance is now suspect.
Of course, you can’t just buy one of these. You have to shell out the $200 to buy a whole new distributor, of course. I have one on the way and the plan is to test them side-by-side. If the “new” one performs the same, then back it goes.
Ok, so stalled out on that, I thought I’d go ahead and touch up the plastidip so I can actually do a damn color reveal. The masking tape left a bunch of residue on the plastic, so I needed to clean that off. Long story short, I got some Goo Gone on the plastidip and they don’t like each other . Now I have what looks like a “run” on the passenger door. Great.
Ok... so I fucked that up bad enough, maybe I’ll work on getting the light bars installed. I had to special order some 100mm long M6 screws for this and they’d finally come in. I get about halfway though the install and one of the screws doesn’t want to thread. I just about strip my special order screw before I finally give up. Plan is to chase the threads tomorrow, but I need to buy the correct tool for that.
Spiffy.
So I’m 0/3 of doing car stuff this weekend.
At least the lawn mower started.....
PartyPooper2012
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
04/01/2019 at 11:19 |
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its not 0/3. You worked on some stuff. That counts.
If you sat on the couch and screamed at the TV because on the Cops rerun the cop was about to miss the bad guy, that would have been 0/3
MM54
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
04/01/2019 at 11:44 |
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Sounds like you made good progress on the distributor troubleshooting, and some on the light bars -
certainly not a 0/3.
razorbeamteam
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
04/01/2019 at 11:50 |
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FWIW, I have two ports on my vacuum advance. One is for advance and one is for retard. I have no idea why you would want a vacuum retard, but its available I guess.
TorqueToYield
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
04/01/2019 at 12:39 |
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People complain about modern electronics and hard to fix blah blah blah but vacuum lines and vacuum ‘logic’ is the devil and screw all that with a rusty pineapple.
“ It has no electronics how hard can it be to fix?”
Vacuum diagram looks like:
Urambo Tauro
> TorqueToYield
04/01/2019 at 22:54 |
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At least most wiring systems have the decency to give the wires different colors for easy identification.