IAC visit with Sylvester and Samantha
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:50 am
If any of you have been following my adventures with Samantha Was Sputtering, I have been struggling with Sam sputtering, losing power and backfiring. A couple of weeks back, I had had enough and decided to begin tearing down Sam to replace what I wanted to get the best performance from Sam I could. I had bought a SVDA and Pertronix from ACN, rebuilt my 34 PICT 3 from a kit, and had a used muffler to get rid of my EMPI raiser straw muffler. I started tearing Sam down and tried to get as much done before Colin came to town to help me. Yesterday, two hours into putting stuff back on, I ran into some issues that I figured were best addressed by an AC expert. Like clockwork, here came the BobD and a Bus full of answers! I shook Colin's hand, he looked at Sam and parts a-scattered on the drive and said "how far did you get?". Colin had been reading my mis-adventures with interest, so I caught him up speed as to what I had done up to that point. Colin then doffed his tank top, asked about the weather (we had lots of rain clouds but no rain, and I had been watching the weather like a hawk), then we dove in. I really need to be at my home PC to get this all in, but the next six hours included perils such as:
Never use a plugged warm air pre-heater tube.
Mufflers can be bent to meet your needs.
You can too, can use a bottle jack to put on an intake!
Heat risers, when heated up, become blistering hot, ask me how I found out!
And my favorite! What happens when the post on the generator becomes loose and the wire inside detaches? You don't want to know this one!
More to come!
Never use a plugged warm air pre-heater tube.
Mufflers can be bent to meet your needs.
You can too, can use a bottle jack to put on an intake!
Heat risers, when heated up, become blistering hot, ask me how I found out!
And my favorite! What happens when the post on the generator becomes loose and the wire inside detaches? You don't want to know this one!
More to come!