Biohazard

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Kurt,
Any testing will have to wait till tomorrow morning. I will add that to my itinerary. I did try to run it with the screws out only 1 turn and it wouldn't start till about 1 3/4 turns. From what I remember.
 
Teeth & Tires said:
While working on the fish, attracted the attention of and was visited by ...

...this guy



What a crazy thing is a Citröen SM.
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They are crazy! When I was stationed in England, they were all over the place! It was the first time I heard of them.
 
66fyssh said:
They are crazy! When I was stationed in England, they were all over the place! It was the first time I heard of them.
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Burt Reynolds hammers on one ,in the original "The Longest Yard" (1973)... The car chase scene,is simply awesome.
 
It's definitely lean.Are you sure that carb is clean as a whistle? Those passages can be murder to get unplugged.
 
Pulling the carb and cleaning it is def my next step.
When I first tried cranking the motor a while back, you may recall me saying how some gunk formed at the bottom of the bowls and that the floats had gotten stuck in it causing her to flood. I'm going to have to assume, for now, that I've got more gunk elsewhere as well.

My floats were adjusted too low, corrected that, but it's still not happy.
 
My floats.



Deliberately over-filled the bowl to max out the float position and here's what I got--

 
Problem solved.

Removed and opened up the carb, started blasting away with carb cleaner, flipped the body over to let the large check ball fall out - which got me thinking about the small check ball and "did I maybe lose that during reassembly? Not so much. I removed the Venturi cover, saw the ball, and was like, "ok". I was just about to put the plate back on and thought, maybe I should make sure it's free in that seat. VOILA!! It was stuck in the seat just like my floats had been. Popped it loose, cleaned it and cleaned out the seat and put it all back together.

As of today, November 8th, I am calling this a running engine!

Check it out...

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I've got a longer video but I need to get near a wifi before I can upload it.

Happy day!
 
69conv said:
Just pick the right twisty road!
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Haha...in this thing, they're all twisty. And I know this because I did roll her down the street a short way. Risking the lives of my neighbors and their dogs.

Now that it's running, I've discovered an exhaust problem. The pipe work is solid but the muffler case itself has a leak at the seam. I'll have to trailer it back down to the shop for a complete alignment (same place) and I'll have him fix it then. But before I do the alignment, I need to buy and install new leaf spring bushings. Sheesh, just when I thought I'd already replaced every soft item on the whole car.
 
On the subject of alignment, the Biohazard needs rear leaf spring bushings. I was all set to order from PST but along came the question: 2" eye or 1.5" eye?

Figured best way to find out is to pull the bolt out and get a correct measurement.

Bracket off -


Bolt pulled-


Shackles off, removing those bushings-


The bushes, total garbage-


Getting at the rear end-


The brackets and shackles are getting blasted and powdercoated. I pick em up next week. Starting a 7-on day shift. :(
 
Not trying to spend your money but......I see the cheapo spring helpers, likely your springs are shot and need replacing. Why not put a new set of springs in, they will come with new bushings installed, and the band aid repair that is now on the springs will be gone.
 
Solid counsel. But money is the issue here. If it wasn't, I'd have bought a finished car at Barrett Jackson's and there'd be no thread to view.

I agree the spring helpers are whack but they hold the car's arse up just fine making new springs a "non-critical" event. PST has replacements for $409 -- too much to spend right now -- and they don't seem to include bushings (??) While my brackets and shackles are getting powder coated, the springs themselves are not. Reason being, they will probably get replaced later on. For now, having good bushings in there will allow me to get the alignment done and I can just not worry about the rear suspension for a good long while.
 
Every time I mess with my carb linkage, seems I mange to lose one more of those tiny retaining clips. Thank god for lockwire. Getting good at fabricating my own clips.



Really happy my carburetor is finally sorted out so I won't be losing any more clips.
 
20 years ago, my eyes were so good I could find one laying in the dirt. Now I don't even bother looking, lol.
 
I gave up on using photobucket to host my 'larger' video so here's the youtube link....

You will hear some belt squeal during hits to the throttle but I got that cleaned up right after.



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I feel ya on the money thing!Slowly buying one or two pieces here and there,but I will get there.If parts were cheaper it would help a lot,lol...
 
Yep. And it's not that the price of those springs is all that bad. Hell, it's great that you can just click and have brand new replacements for a 46 year old fish delivered to your door. In fact, I've found it much easier to work on this car now than it was to find stuff for my first '69 back in 1988 when the car was 25 years younger! thanks for the internet, Mr. Gore

Short-term planning:
Install rear suspension
Alignment + Exhaust fix

...and, unless I'm forgetting something, that should wrap-up this phase of the resto with the next phase being the cabin area.
 
I'm muffler hunting online and not near my car...anyone know the max case length that will fit properly?
 
Clean carb, good bottom end and head work done by Pilcher's down in Coffee County, Alabama, and that electronic distributor....that's what's makin' it. Now, if only I had a muffler that wasn't blowing out at both end caps...

:wack:
 
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