I've been having trouble w/ the smaller Holleys as well- pressure creep at idle's flooding the Webers. the old one was great, but 2 replacements have not worked at all. Sadly, since all the hotrod p
I always try to prelube a motor, too- on a roadster, it's not too difficult. Otherwise, pulling the plugs and cranking, (after squitring oil down the bores, and on the cam, if you can) BUT- I've take
One caution find a brand, and stay with it. If they go out of business, change brands only once. I've seen several engines now that were owned by very conscientious people who used whichever name bra
Synthetic seems to smoke less when burned, but it's much more likely to slip by loose seals, so I'd stay with the Castrol. It's never let me down... my '02 Toby
I have one of those in the race car. With a Canon Elura camcorder, it does pretty wellexcept at certain harmonics, where it vibrates pretty badly... about 5800 rpm in 2nd and 3rd. The camcorder play
98% chance it's the caliper wedge a screwdriver under the pads, and lever them away from the rotor. Off you go. 2% chance it's garden gnomes gone bad. Run away. Far, far away. t
many calipers are designed so that the seals will retract the pistons a slight amount, then hold them close to the disc. The Dunlop design doesn't do this, and thus the 'postie' thingus (and its mat
Canon's internal shockmounting system is pretty good at eliminating quite a bit of race- car- frequency vibration. But get a camera that has an external mic input, as the internal mics just don't do
and longer studs- spacers are a bit difficult to find, but not expensive- and not too hard to make. Since we run SAE studs, longer studs aren't too hard to find. Maybe a bit harder to set up the firs
If all your fuses are OK and conducting juice (not always obvious) yes, it's pretty common for the brake light switch to get junk in it and quit workin'. Jump the wires together, and if the lights go
I'm sure everyone's already looked, but the ball joints for my Volvo 122 are REALLY similar in design. Too big, but it suggests to me that Datsun was copying something else- probably Briddish, since
Phil, nice try! ;-) In return, I need: a. independant wealth. II. unlimited time! 3. attractive, perky assistants. Tell you what, instead of embarking on a project, I'll stick my head under the right
well, obviously, if you used a 67.5, you'd be destroying classics, whereas the 68 was relatively plentiful!!! (heh heh) Biggest RACING reason I can think is that the 67.5 has a removable windshield,