David,
I know I'm opening a 'new can of worms' (again), but what did you do about your
PVC, and crankcase breathing with your webber set up?? I"m trying to get
everything up and running first, and I figured I'd deal with it later, but I
will have to address this sometime. I noticed that the Vizard book has a setup
to pull a vacuum on the crakcase, but it doesn't look that easy to set up. It
appears that putting a vacuum on the crankcase can pretty much eliminate oil
leaks on our engines, do you know of anyone that has done this?
- Bryan
>To: "chuck" <chuckc@ibm.net>
>Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Timing the 1275 ? (vac. advance with a sidedraft)
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>Chuck
>sent this to Richard, then read your post. I now am joining you in the
>confused arena, as up until now I thought I knew what I was talking about,
>now, humbly am not so sure. The original reply was how I was able to make
>vacuum advance work on a Weber or Delorto Sidedraft. As to a late model
>1275 with SUs I am in favor of ripping all the smog sh*t off and replacing
>it with a Weber. In 12 years, it has never worn out throttle shafts, never
>gone out of balance, never ran out of dash pot oil, looks cool, and runs
>great. Just my .02 worth, though.
>Only cost me a 6 pack of good beer to get it smogged, and starting last
>year, is smog exempt in CA.
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>Richard
>The age of the carbs I looked at is unknown, although they are late smog SUs
>with the little spring & pin in the butterfly. I thought 69-74 had these,
>but I guess I was wrong. Just be thankfull you are not trying to figure out
>where all the hoses go on a 79 1500. Bought one one time with all the parts
>in a box, before computers and lists and such. Had to put it together based
>on the worn out decal under the hood. Now that was loads of fun!
>
>David Riker
>74 Midget (with weber)
>63 Falcon
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Shipman <mbelect@mindspring.com>
>To: David Riker <davidr@sunset.net>
>Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 5:47 AM
>Subject: Re: Timing the 1275 ? (vac. advance with a sidedraft)
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>> Hi David,
>>
>> I have some earlier SU carbs with the vacuum pick-up where you suggest,
>but
>> on both of my '74 Midgets the SU's have absolutely *no* vacuum advance
>> pick-off points. (I've rebuilt the carbs and therefore have had them
>> completely apart so I would have seen the pick-up point wherever it might
>> have been). The distributor vacuum advance is connected to a nipple
>threaded
>> into the top of the intake manifold directly in-line with the front carb.
>>
>>.....
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