Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
When the weather finally started behaving I figured it was time to get back to business on the Roadrunner. Although I'd finished adjusting the lash and buttoned up the top end again, I still needed to go back through the process of checking rotor phase ans syncing the distributor with the FAST ECU. It wouldn't have been necessary but every time we've had a problem dialing the car in, we've resorted to fiddling around with those settings.
As I opened up the garage door I saw my son Spencer's Challenger pulling up into the driveway. Perfect timing! He'd talked about coming back for a visit and was eager to find out if I'd made any progress on his car.
The first thing we did was to crank the engine over to see if it would fire before we made any adjustments. Even though we hadn't yet re-set the distributor I was optimistic. Spencer... - not so much.
It didn't start but it acted as though it wanted to. We had only cranked it over for about a minute and Spence noticed that the new Optima battery we'd installed 6 months ago was already showing a significant drop in voltage. He was hungry for some KFC chicken so we ran to Columbus to eat and picked up another new Optima and a set of fresh spark plugs.