No run, fresh rebuilt motor

fuel delivery issue.  If you put it on a stand and ran fine, see what is different than what is in the car i.e. coil, fuel pump, etc. 

At least you know its not the motor.

Alex!  Re-read his next-to-last sentence.....  It was a bad pan to tranny ground strap (so he says . . . . . He's probably just saying that to save face because he didn't actually connect the damn thing in the first place).  

Did he check the ground strap?

Next time, CHECK THE GROUND STRAP!

Regardless.....It's Beer Time!

(I bet that Carey checks his ground straps!)

This just in.

One of Alan's secret helpers found the build list on the floor of the Merklin Motor Works shop and if you look at item 7 you'll clearly see that Alan did not check off the all important Trans to Chassis Ground:

1. Choose a Speedster X
2. Choose an engine X
3. Mount the engine X
4. Check the axles and drivetrain X
5. Pedal Assembly X
6. Shifter  X
7. Transmission to chassis ground _
8. Fuel system X
9. Brake system X
10. Intake and exhaust system X
11. Electrical system X
12. Body work X
13. Interior X
14. Wheels and tires X

Years ago I rebuilt a '69 MGC engine - crank and crank it.  Called my Dad and he drove 45 minutes to quickly point out the distributor rotor still sitting on the work bench!

Wolfy -- Now THAT is funny.

Alex: Not fuel delivery... it the motor ground, the ground connection deteriorated under a bolt.

Youz guys:  Have too much time on your hands but your comments are a pisser :~)

Glad you sorted it, Alan. And thanks, again, for sharing your foibles with us. It makes us all feel good since most of us would do something like what you did every damn time, with the exception that, in our cases, it would take us four days to decide to pull the engine, two more weekends to actually do it, etc. etc., and 48 posts on SOC before we determined that a little brass thingie was missing from the right side carb.

Where is the proper location for one? I still need to put one on...

Ask Lane - He's still looking for his.......

I think he means the grounding strap.  OEM one is short - maybe 5".  You can buy longer ones at most any FLAPS.  It can go anywhere but must be to a good chassis/frame ground.  Clean where you attach down to bare metaland apply some grease to prevent rust. 

With the 2 x 4 box frame using some grounds, I ground the box frame, chassis and bottom motor to trans bolt.

I grounded myself to my Ham Radio transmitter once when I was working on it - I think I was 15 years old at the time.  Went in one hand and out through the other.  600 volts DC at about an amp.  Knocked me out for 15 seconds or so and I've still got the scars on my hands from it.  Our family doctor looked at me later that day and proclaimed me to have "the heart of an OX!"  Been proving him right ever since.

Honestly, it's no wonder my mother had white hair........

In college, our frat rooms were pretty small, so we came up with all manner of methods for elevating beds. My roommate mounted his bed to the wall up high and mine was on the ground. His desk was under his bed.

These were steel beds and my roommate hung an old metal lamp from his mattress springs over his desk. My bed was pushed up against the radiator. Unbeknownst to us, that lamp had a ground fault.

That scenario existed for a long time until one day, one of our brothers came in to chat with us and grabbed my roommates bed frame and mine while standing there.

110V right across the heart. He was shook up, but unharmed :-)
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Yeah, that $#!+ really wakes you up!

I hate electricity! Almost fried myself when I was about 7 or 8. Took my dads old fish tank pump and while taking a bath on morning (parent asleep) I decided to plug it in and submerged it the tub to watch the bubbles, WAM, boy did I get zapped!

crhemi (Bill) posted:

I hate electricity! Almost fried myself when I was about 7 or 8. Took my dads old fish tank pump and while taking a bath on morning (parent asleep) I decided to plug it in and submerged it the tub to watch the bubbles, WAM, boy did I get zapped!

Well that one clearly takes the cake !