What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

Fixed the speedometer just now. The knurled nut at the dash end had unscrewed itself and the cable fell out. It's a pain on my car to get to, since the steering column has to be dropped a couple of inches in order to have enough room to pull the dash cluster out.

Also I warmed it up and tweaked the idle mixture (ended up about 1/4 turn further out on all four) and just an RCH on the secondary idle stop. Seems to like that now, but it's a fine line between getting into the advance with too much rpm, and dying because there isn't enough vacuum signal through the carb when too slow... :realcrazy: Big cams are tricky to tune for street use!

Finally I load-checked the battery with one of those broiler-element testers. It's showing as "weak" for a 750CCA, 1000CA battery. I don't like how far the voltage drops when the first couple cylinders go over compression, either. That battery was made 3/20 according to the round sticker - so that's only three years. Car batteries just do not last like they used to...