Re: Henry's 37 Limousine

Posted by Cli55er On 2017/10/6 10:37:02
nothing was serious. it was just a loose hose clamp.

I probably just used a screw driver, but this time I used a ratchet and got it nice and tight. so far so good.

I fine tuned the timing with my vacuum gauge. I do get a bit of a miss every so often. I can get it worked out, but it will randomly come back. car seems to drive fine though, no miss during driving.

car is sitting at 175-185 in the garage, depending on if the electric fan is on and if i'm giving it a bit of gas so the water pump moves more.

idle is set to 630rpm. most times the needle on the vacuum gauge will sit still right in the middle and other times it will bounce around and dip some. if you read the gauge face it says occasional dip is either carb or tappets. in this case it really could be either or both. or could be the crappy Chinese gauge i'm using. I do hear a bit of lifter noise from time to time.

timing was fine tuned to 3-1/2 graduations per the book.

drove it around last night without a hiccup. hottest it got was 190 when I would come to a stop for a bit. but for the most part it held steady at 180.

I've decided to keep the car around 50-55mph on the highway. I think part of the problem was trying to keep up with modern traffic and it was running the motor too high and getting too hot. just part of the learning curve driving an older car.

I also learned that right below half a tank on the gauge is out of gas, which was most likely my problem driving home that day with the bucking on the highway. 1/2 tank is 2 gallons left. I guess the sender is back to being off even though I tested it and it was working from E to F when moving the float. probably needs to be rebuilt.

also changed the oil since its been 500 miles. oil had some metal in it. dip finger in oil and shine light on it will reveal small shavings. hoping its just from breaking in cause the car runs well otherwise. I guess we will find out.

so back to normal now it seems.

now to move on to fixing the damn passenger's side front wing window that for some reason wont crank all the way in and wont crank out. its loose by like 1/4" now and just flops around. handle just spins unless you put pressure on the window in the direction you want to move. geesh....and I just had this door panel off like a month ago.

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