Wooohooooo!!!!
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Wooohooooo!!!!
To quote Young Dr. Frankenstein.....
It's Alive!!!!!!
I got home this evening and finished up the last few connections of my engine wiring harness, filled the crankcase with oil, the power steering pump with fluid and hooked up a battery while keeping my fingers crossed....no sparks, no smoke, cool, I'm already ahead of the game.
Turned the key, the idiot light I added to make the charging circuit complete lit up and the fuel pump began pushing fuel. turned the key to crank -- no crank.
No problemo! I dragged the battery charger over and gave it a burst of jolts and then tried the key again.....Wooohooo!! It lit right off (at least for a second or two)
After giving the distributor a small tweak I tried again and managed to get it lit off and idling. The wife wasn't impressed, she was trying to watch tv in the room next to the garage and the 8" of pipe coming off each exhaust manifold don't do much to quiet the beast. I gave her a few good revs (just to let the neighbors know that it runs) and then shut things down for the night with a huge smile smeared on my face!!
Hopefully I can get a few things squared away and get it over to the muffler shop after the first of the year.
Thanks all
Bobby
It's Alive!!!!!!
I got home this evening and finished up the last few connections of my engine wiring harness, filled the crankcase with oil, the power steering pump with fluid and hooked up a battery while keeping my fingers crossed....no sparks, no smoke, cool, I'm already ahead of the game.
Turned the key, the idiot light I added to make the charging circuit complete lit up and the fuel pump began pushing fuel. turned the key to crank -- no crank.
No problemo! I dragged the battery charger over and gave it a burst of jolts and then tried the key again.....Wooohooo!! It lit right off (at least for a second or two)
After giving the distributor a small tweak I tried again and managed to get it lit off and idling. The wife wasn't impressed, she was trying to watch tv in the room next to the garage and the 8" of pipe coming off each exhaust manifold don't do much to quiet the beast. I gave her a few good revs (just to let the neighbors know that it runs) and then shut things down for the night with a huge smile smeared on my face!!
Hopefully I can get a few things squared away and get it over to the muffler shop after the first of the year.
Thanks all
Bobby
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Thanks guys! I can't seem to wipe the grin off my face
She wasnt too mad...just moved to a different part of the house to finish watching her show
My boy got a big kick out of it too!!
Bobby
She wasnt too mad...just moved to a different part of the house to finish watching her show
My boy got a big kick out of it too!!
Bobby
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Congrats! Been there, dun that. It's a feeling you can't explain. Everytime you start it, it will put another smile on your face. That's what it's all about. Don't worry about the wife, she's actually more excited than you are, they just don't show it like us guys. LOL....
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Way to go...Hope I have the same results with my 56 this spring when I hope have it back together and running.. Have alot to do before I get to that stage so I have to keep remembering that a long journey begins with a single step, which in my case better be a great big long one
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Thanks guys,
Unfortunately I won't be able to drive it around the block and really annoy the neighbors yet. Between some prior commitments and this holiday stuff I won't get much of a chance to do anything until the week after X-mas. Hopefully then I can idle it out of the garage and into the street and accidentally burn the snot out of the rear tires.
Bobby
Unfortunately I won't be able to drive it around the block and really annoy the neighbors yet. Between some prior commitments and this holiday stuff I won't get much of a chance to do anything until the week after X-mas. Hopefully then I can idle it out of the garage and into the street and accidentally burn the snot out of the rear tires.
Bobby
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Hopefully then I can idle it out of the garage and into the street and accidentally burn the snot out of the rear tires.
Bobby
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