Critters other mistress..1970 Plymouth Fury 3

[Samplingman]

RE: Ballast resistor and Ohm's Law. Great to know all that physics stuff, but when you are stuck in a parking lot trying to get home and the engine won't stay running unless the key is held in the start position, you'll be thankful you threw a couple of extras in the glove box. That's Mopar's Law....

 

[Fury440]

K....next question up....little 2bll carter carb....never done a rebuild on a carb so bear with me...in learnin mode...

Normal - not wear.
I'm no expert carb rebuilder. I can usually take it apart, soak it in carb cleaner, blow it out with the air hose and get it back together ok, I fall flat on my face trying to get it adjusted properly. One of life's great frustrations I've never mastered.
Anyhow a couple of my hard learned tricks.
- I use a cookie sheet with a 1/2" lip with a shop towel lining the bottom. Keeps parts such as little balls and springs from wandering away. The shop towel stops "things" from bouncing when fat fingered and dropped.
- Take many, many pictures, can't ever have too many pictures.
- Match all the gaskets you remove with the replacement in the kit.
- Make sure all the holes match. If there is any doubt which way is up, mark the new gasket with a sharpy.
- On reassembly, tighten screws evenly and not so tight that the gasket gets distorted. Too tight is worse than too loose, air leaks are your enemy.
Other than that, you are on your own!

 

[300rag]

My kit is sitting on the dining table just waiting for you to get yours done and running properly before I start. All new to me, too.

 

[Fury440]

RE: Ballast resistor and Ohm's Law. Great to know all that physics stuff, but when you are stuck in a parking lot trying to get home and the engine won't stay running unless the key is held in the start position, you'll be thankful you threw a couple of extras in the glove box. That's Mopar's Law....

So true, back in the day I always carried a fairly well equipped tool box, a ballast resistor, coil, points, thermostat, set of belts, upper and lower rad hose and a selection of light bulbs and fuses. When I started driving cars with computer EFI engines I no longer carried the spares or the tool box because I couldn't fix most of what could go wrong and my tool box didn't do metric.
My current daily driver, an '06 Jeep with a 5.7 hemi just doesn't seem to break. Just as well, open the hood and all you can see is a big honking cover over most of te engine. In a "responsible moment" I decided to check the engine and transmission oil, took awhile to find the engine dip stick and I never did find the transmission dip stick.

Now I only lift the hood to add bug juice!

 

[CanCritter]

will be packing extra parts in the trunk for shure...not like its not big enough to handle a few spare parts....
Carb kit....we need brains Pete and Grahams no where to be found...anyway took mine apart after takeing butt load of pics....looks to be 2 check balls couple springs ect...dosnt look to bad realy but then l haven't opened kit yet....already worried about the extra parts l'll end up with....
when l opened mine up found alota crap in bottom of bowls and plunger looks worn and tired

also decided to try out vinegar to try to remove rust from driver side heat shield over exhaust manifold...was in pretty good shape and coulda just taken a wire brush to it but wana see how well vinager works and if l can get the piece looking like new...first bath to small...baby bath for my babys parts just fine...nieghbour threw it out years ago and l snagged it outa her garbage....use it quite regularly for my diesel oil changes...works great...

 

[CanCritter]

Hmmmmm.....where dose a newbie start......guess the instructions sheet is as good as any......was hopein pete would do his first so l could learn from his mistakes....not the other way around lol..ah well no guts no carb......

 

[300rag]

...was hopein pete would do his first so l could learn from his mistakes....not the other way around lol.

I was actually thinking we should just drop them off with Graham. He said he could do one in 30 minutes with his eyes closed.

 

[CanCritter]

Lve spent 30 mins just figure in out where to start....now lve got this gasket...and hole.....

 

[commando1]

You've got the manual upside down. That's a problem. Part 16 is gonna mess you up.

 

[300rag]

Lve spent 30 mins just figure in out where to start....now lve got this gasket...and hole.....View attachment 105897

Aren't you supposed to be using the thinner gasket? The one on the right. Sorry, I turned it around and am too lazy to unpack it again and take another picture.

 

[300rag]

Okay, just for you.

 

[Dobalovr]

OMG couldn't wait for me eh? Sorry been busy teaching Six Sigma to an Auditor all day just got in.

You should soak the body overnight to get all the varnish off. How much wear on the throttle shaft? Bracket is normal do you have a drill bit to set the float?

I knew I should have kept your carb kit at home....

 

[CanCritter]

when l saw the gasket thought l was lost...when you mentioned the drill bit knew l was lost

 

[CanCritter]

Okay, just for you.


View attachment 105899

the one on the right is for the top l belive

 

[Fury440]

And you wanted a 6-pac !

 

[CanCritter]

well with 3 l woulda had alota practice.....can see it now,,,Bill sittin at home laughin at the bunch of us

 

[Fury440]

Can't be worse I suppose than my first attempt at carb rebuilding on my 57 Ford which had dual 4bbl. What really screwed me up is I discovered after everything was apart and soaking that the carbs were two different models. I did manage to build both, but probably with the correct parts since the setup never really worked well.

 

[CanCritter]

Been busy....thumbs are sore....power tools would be nice...well lets see..what l get accomplished to day....
well we'll start with the vinegar test...is working great to be honest...love it...its cleaned the rust offa my heat shield to the point it looks new...very impressed...will be doing a lot more of this in the future...have battery tray in there right now as well
24 hrs in vinegar/water bath

also decided to see what kinda shape bumper was in so decided to clean it up...was in crappy tire other day tryin to figure out what to use for polishing the bumper...was mequires..and all that other heavily advertised polishes'...decided to go with one with awards from Germany...

 

[CanCritter]

was nice to be on my back for a change insteada being stuffed in the engine bay....

comfy for a change....

tried using my porter cable but is was noisey and didn't work all that well....what l found that realy worked was my finger or thumb and ya just grabbed a dab and had at it...little gos along way...kinda like claybaring..you can feel when chrome is clean...quite happy with this polish...would recommend to anyone

 

[CanCritter]

also grabbed a wire brush some SEM saddle soap and cleaned up my washer reservoir....worked pretty dam good and cut off any excess production flashing which cleaned it up pretty darn good ld say....
pic below is not paint difference...is just the heat blows alota dust down there and haven't been on the hood whereas lve been crawlin all over thos fenders knockin the dust off..