My 69 Dart "AKA" The Blue Mutt
Had to do one more thing before I tried to start, last year right after I got the car, I set it on fire uggg luckily I had an extinguisher in my Mustang and after a sad battle with a gas coated towel I was able to grab it and get the flames out, this time I would be better prepared should something bad happen, bought an extinguisher for the Dart (got a replacement for the Mustang one too) so I had it and grabbed one from the house - after almost 11 months of working on this thing I didn't want to watch it burn today, I have over those same months thought about setting it on fire LOL
OK, Im all good to go - used a diner style condiment bottle and squirted some gas in the carb bowls, wanted it to fire as quickly as possible - hit the key and that new mini starter spins the engine like a duncan yoyo - man that sounds smooooth-too smooth WTF!!!! checked voltage - good - spin it again and look at the timing light - its flashing WTF!!!!! ok, pull one plug, do a quick compression check - ZERO - WTF!!! WTF! OK, Now Im wondering if I would have been better off last year letting it burn, I would have more than doubled my money in just a few weeks and could have gotten done with some more stuff on my Mustang I have postphoned for a year now LOL - Did a quick head scratch, is it possible I got the timing out 180? Well anything is possible I have proven to myself with this car - pull the distributer cap and rotate the engine to see where Im at, while turning the engine over I realize that compression will not be a problem, you can feel the compression with the plugs as it was pretty stout while turning, set the balance at TDC with the rotor at number 6, pull and reset rotor pointing at number 1 - put everything back together, jump in the car - turn the key and instant fire - did a quick check to make sure nothing was spraying, blowing, leaking, etc. and run the rpms up to 2k, went up to as much as 3k and broke in around 2.5k.
officially at 1:44pm - 9/6/2020 - The Blue Mutt came back to life was an interesting journey to get here, still need to do some tuning and need to put the inner valve springs in. Gonna let everything cool and drain the oil first though.
Lets see if this works, last time I took a video with my camera it was much better than this but here we go - this was after I turned the rpms back down and idle around 1100 or so
Had to do one more thing before I tried to start, last year right after I got the car, I set it on fire uggg luckily I had an extinguisher in my Mustang and after a sad battle with a gas coated towel I was able to grab it and get the flames out, this time I would be better prepared should something bad happen, bought an extinguisher for the Dart (got a replacement for the Mustang one too) so I had it and grabbed one from the house - after almost 11 months of working on this thing I didn't want to watch it burn today, I have over those same months thought about setting it on fire LOL
OK, Im all good to go - used a diner style condiment bottle and squirted some gas in the carb bowls, wanted it to fire as quickly as possible - hit the key and that new mini starter spins the engine like a duncan yoyo - man that sounds smooooth-too smooth WTF!!!! checked voltage - good - spin it again and look at the timing light - its flashing WTF!!!!! ok, pull one plug, do a quick compression check - ZERO - WTF!!! WTF! OK, Now Im wondering if I would have been better off last year letting it burn, I would have more than doubled my money in just a few weeks and could have gotten done with some more stuff on my Mustang I have postphoned for a year now LOL - Did a quick head scratch, is it possible I got the timing out 180? Well anything is possible I have proven to myself with this car - pull the distributer cap and rotate the engine to see where Im at, while turning the engine over I realize that compression will not be a problem, you can feel the compression with the plugs as it was pretty stout while turning, set the balance at TDC with the rotor at number 6, pull and reset rotor pointing at number 1 - put everything back together, jump in the car - turn the key and instant fire - did a quick check to make sure nothing was spraying, blowing, leaking, etc. and run the rpms up to 2k, went up to as much as 3k and broke in around 2.5k.
officially at 1:44pm - 9/6/2020 - The Blue Mutt came back to life was an interesting journey to get here, still need to do some tuning and need to put the inner valve springs in. Gonna let everything cool and drain the oil first though.
Lets see if this works, last time I took a video with my camera it was much better than this but here we go - this was after I turned the rpms back down and idle around 1100 or so