[Roadsters] The tale of the leaky carb

[Dave Cooke]

Paul,     Once you go to Brisco's electronic dizzy, you'll never go back to
points again. Love mine, one less thing to worry about on this 41 year old
machine.

-Dave Cooke
Midwest Roadsters

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Paul Bauman <plhbauman at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Tom:
>
> It is hard to explain to some people that driving around with the top
> down in 100+ degree weather is like sitting in a microwave oven. I guess
> they just have to buy a roadster to understand.
>
> The mechanical dizzy has never really failed me. I did run into the wire
> shorting thing back in the 70s, and the points collapsed once when a
> Datsun dealership changed them during a tuneup and left one of the
> mounting screws loose. The shorting wire only caused one cylinder to
> miss and I was able to regap the points with a discarded pop-top I found
> alongside the road. Now I have to lug around feeler gauges, darn it.
> Those were the days.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:25 -0700, Tom Hendricksen wrote:
> > I had problems with my points on the way down to Shasta, pulling off of
> the
> > freeway twice to check the problem out before I found the point lead wire
> > shorting to the dizzy case.  With something like your "means" quote
> running
> > through my head I contacted Dave Brisco and a new dizzy is somewhere
> between
> > his home and mine.
> >
> > Mr. Hyde has been apart ever since Shasta.  I am installing a Mercedes
> Benz
> > pusher fan that fits between the radiator mounts and the radiator core
> > without modifying the mounting bars.  Then I spotted a radiator leak, and
> > now I am waiting for the radiator to come home to be reinstalled.  Last I
> > grabbed the water pump pully just because... And it moved.  Another water
> > pump is now in that spot.
> >
> > Last I will reinstall the heater control valve now that I have figured
> out
> > how to rebuild it and keep it from leaking air from the wrong places
> under
> > water.  Once the dizzy is installed I hope we are done for the summer,
> and
> > in time for the BBQ at Bill & Karen Neil's in Shed, Oregon.
> >
> > Who knows, maybe it will cool down from the 105 - 107 degree range and I
> can
> > drive the roadster again when I get him all back together.  Isn't this
> > Oregon????
> >
> > Tom
> > 69 2000 - Mr. Hyde
> > Portland
> > http://www.datsun2000.com
> > http://www.nowroc.org
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Dave Cooke
Midwest Roadsters