[Roadsters] The tale of the leaky carb

[RWM]

Or the Gary Boone version, for that matter. 

Best upgrade ever on a cost-effectiveness-reliability basis (IMHO).

- Bob Mann, '68 2000 Solex w/ Gary Boone  e-Distributor



Dave Cooke wrote:
> 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