Joe, let me get this straight. You are talking about the plungers on the
shaft that goes into the top of the piston - right, not the actual
piston? In my understanding you want 1/4" of resistance when replacing
the plunger. If you take out the piston and pour oil in it runs into the
manifold, I think.
Could be wrong, but I have NEVER been wrong. ;-) So this would be a first.
Larry
>>>>On 4/24/00 1:11 AM so and so (Garner, Joseph P.) said. (And I quote:)
>Hi everyone
>
>I had an interesting, but unsatisfying evening tinkering today. First on the
>list was reconneting/taping up a loose wire (door alarm switch) to the
>buzzer. After unscreewing the gear shift knob and taking off the arm rest
>panel, and unscrewing the lower instrument panel, and taking off the heater
>control knobs i discover (to my annoyance) that my socket set wasn't deep
>enough to undo the retaining nuts on the heater controls, so i wound up
>fishing the offending wire out from behind the instrument panel with a pair
>of tweezers and taping it up... talk about wasted effort. anyway, I my peace
>of mind is better now that i don't have a loose wire floating around back
>there.
>
>So i'm doing my monthly checks, and i'm onto checking the carb. oil. (one of
>the answers to my previous post about poor fuel efficincy was to check the
>carb oil level). Well the Haynes manual says you should have about 1/4" of
>resistance when you drop the piston back in... hmmm.... mine seems to slide
>in without any resistance at all. eeek. So here's my idiot question. The
>mechanic who checked the car over for me before i bought it told me i could
>top up the oil just by taking the piston out and pouring the oil straight
>in. The Haynes manual says to take off the air filter assembly first. There
>must be rhyme and reason to this so i was wondering (idiot second question
>coming up) why this is recommended. I'm one of these annoying people who
>isn't simply happy to follow instructions... I like to know why i'm doing
>what I'm doing...
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>cheers
>
>Joe
>
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