And speaking of appropriate Harris Tweed jackets...
In my youth I had an unreasonable lust for an iconic horse shoe radiator Morgan that tooled around town...and once used every ounce of persuasive charm I could muster to negotiate the asking price of a skinny tire RHD British racing green MGTC to fit my pocket book!!!
Ah, a TC. The car that started sports car racing in North America. So many returning WWII soldiers brought that car back with them (or a TA/TB), and the rest is history. I always wanted a TC.
Coincidently this green TC was brought back from England in the late 40's by her returning husband...recently deceased.
She wanted $900 for it
The very best I could do was seven hundred dollars plus the loose change in my pocket and a seriously proposed season of indentured servitude cutting her grass, pulling weeds, raking leaves and cleaning out her rain gutters. She thought that was amusing and came down to eight fifty $$...but still too far apart.
OK, maybe a little drift is a good thing. My Beezer has, of course, Lucas electrics, what little electrics it has. Although I did convert to a Boyer Bransden electronic igniter, I have never had so much as a bulb burn out in my experience. Maybe I'm just lucky? Prince of darkness? Not on my watch.
I'm betting on at least a twelve page cliff hanging mystery thriller before this is finally concluded!....much like the weekly Green Hornet Saturday afternoon serial adventure episodes in the movie theatre that I never missed as a kid.
Rekindling that youthful anticipation with an authentic true life mystery is rather exciting!...I've got to replenish my popcorn supply before Danny's dizzy arrives.
This is kinda like one-a those "Perfect Storms" of things a-comin together:
Lane has gotten to the end of his previous rope in diagnosing his mis-fire problem (or whatever the hell it will finally become), while, at the same time (ATST) he is waiting for his Care package of a wholly-new ignition system to arrive from Danny P. while, ATST, we're all just a-holdin our collective breaths, just a-waitin' to find out just what the hell....is a-gonna happen next and here we are on the very cusp of Thanksgiving and all, here in this great US of A.
Why....You just might think, that Ol' Lane, there, would be about given' up by now, but no....That ol' boy has been working' has tail off and is a-sittin' there just a-waitin' by his mailbox, along with his trusty wiener-dogs, for his package to arrive. The three of them, just sittin' there at the curb, a-waitin' and a-waitin.......all forlorn.
Meanwhile, that whole Thanksgivin' thing got me thinkin' about how one of those great "sons-of-folk-singers", Arlo Guthrie, son of his great father, Woody, that wanderer and troubadour of backyard America, managed to have a hit, 23-minute-song, based on him gettin' arrested in Stockbridge, Massachusetts (about as far away from Boston and those "Yankee Liberals" as you can get around here) on Thanksgiving Day for litterin'. A song with a wonderful back melody (the only thing I ever managed to faithfully play on guitar, over and over and over again) that goes on and on as long as he's talking. I can just hear in in my head right now. Almost the same back melody as another song on that album; "I don't want a tickle, Jus' wanna on ride my motorcicle", something he used to play at the Unicorn Coffee House on Boylston, street in Boston in the 1960's.
But that's just an aside to the real thread which, as we've just heard, is a bit on hold until those intrepid members of our US Postal Service (or the United Parcel folks, their related in-laws) manage to deliver Lane's much-anticipated package and he can get on with the program and let us know what comes next. Not that Justin has any faith at all that the new ignition is gonna solve anything (since he and I both probably feel that it's still a fuel delivery issue, (Danny, too, for that matter)) but we're all a-waitin' just the same and a-hopin' for the best.
So we're a-bidin' our time, just waiting' for the package to arrive..........
Maybe this will help pass the time. I particularly like the part about the "Group W bench", somewhere around the 3/4's mark. Something I can truly relate to:
BTW: "Alice" still lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts to this day..........
As long as we're drifting aimlessly....Alice is a friend of ours and a real character. She still has family in Stockbridge, but she re-married (now widowed ) and is an artist in Provincetown, Ma. where she runs a small gallery in her home.
My wife helped her with her web site, which is, www.alicebrock.com . I think she still sells art and memorabilia there.
I hate to drift back to the original topic, but "since he and I both probably feel that it's still a fuel delivery issue" doesn't work for me given the latest intel. Yesterday I verified (accidentally) free fuel flow (say that 10 times fast) at the carb on the side that appears to be the sick one (1-2). Having some free time on my hands today I disassembled that carb further than I have before, blowing our all reachable passages and replacing gaskets. No change to running characteristics. My current opinion of Webers notwithstanding, I believe that more evidence points to ignition.
Then again, the length of this thread should provide an inverse indication of my expertise.
And now back to our irregularly scheduled thread drift.
I'd suggest finding a buddy to loan you a good Bosch 010 with regular points and a Bosch blue coil and swap out the whole thing. 7.5deg BTDC Static to get it running then adjust to 28-32 degrees at 3000 rpm. Plugs/wires are probably fine. Once you've K.I.S.S.ed the ignition you can fiddle with the carbs, etc. I think by now you have the cleanest Webers I've ever heard of.
Todd: Unlikely since the problem manifests itself right away after a cold start.
Mike: Already in the works, sort of. Danny Piperato is sending me his old ignition system from before he converted the Spyder to crankfire. I believe it is an 009 with a Pertronix module, but it was working perfectly when he removed it.
My money's still on spark but my last engine build also showed me what excessive fuel pressure will do. It pushes past the needle and seat, fills up the float bowl, and bubbles liquid gasoline out through the vent tube straight down the carb throat and your engine runs like crap.
On a dual carb setup it would just find the weakest side (1-2?) to relieve the pressure. If this is the case you should be able to see it with the air filter off, just looking down the carb throat for liquid coming out of the float vent.
My fix is to add gaskets under the mechanical fuel pump (or shorten the rod).
Team Spark has racked up some impressive statistics with their two experienced running backs...Mr.Inside and Mr.Outside...reincarnated Davis and Blanchard.
But I tend to root for the 'come from behind guys' with the snazzy uniforms.
OH, YEAH - I remember when every day was not only Monday, but the Monday after a long weekend when I just got back from a short business trip and nobody did anything while I was away, everything broke and everyone blamed it on me.
And THEN I would find out that the Expresso machine got broken yesterday and no one called to get it fixed. Would have to walk through the minefield of Marketing and the Advanced Manufacturing groups, hoping that no one spotted me with their questions, to get to the Exec. Row to Bum a cup from one of the Admins over there, just to get me going.
It's now been long enough that I can think back on those many years of 80-90 hour weeks and it no longer bothers me. Lots of those folks are still working while I'm living out my revenge........
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