Stop in for a cup of coffee

I'm up and checking in.

Old man Ray and I have pm'ed, so he's up too, but hasn't checked in yet...


I went to Chuck's today for another round of try to get the Valiant started...

Monday we couldn't get gas to the carb. Then Tues put an old fuel pump on and got fuel to the carb, but then the secondary bowl vent started pouring fuel like a water fountain. We fixed that, but it still wouldn't start...

Turns out that his brand new HV Carter fuel pump is crap....

Had two job interviews Wednesday, so no time to help then.

Today I took a spare new carb over and we put it on and got it to run. While tinkering on the break in, I hit a wire and it stopped, but we just hit the button and it fired right up again and we were able finish the 45 minute cam break-in...

Then shut if off for a few minutes to let the garage air out a bit, then it wouldn't restart... We're getting 4 volt to the coil, but no spark at the plug. We tried to put an old ballast resistor on it and it still wouldn't start. So we're going to try an ignition box next - even though his is brand new.... He didn't have a spare box handy, so I'm going to look for one here...

WTF is going on with new part quality these days??? It's gone to ****.... It's like we need a complete running engine to test the parts on before we put them on the one that we're working on...