Re: Wat's Clipper coupe

Posted by Wat_Tyler On 2022/6/14 6:25:19

Got in some quality wrench time on the anvil (Deluxe) yesterday. Wat loves engine piddling. Anyway, yesterday was the Test The Coil Theory day. We got a new hotter 6v coil because hotter. The intuitive suspicion was that the old coil is likely original and just wasn't making as much spark as it used to and that it made spark on its terms more than mine.


So, we had to take out the old coil, which is easy enough. It has the annoying hot-wire-to-the-bottom arrangement, but prying a-loose 3 of 4 tabs makes the bottom slide off. Of course, the screw wouldn't turn for love or money, so wire snips got us a workable hot wire. We have a wee collection of wire mending ends, so we made a wire extension to get us inside the engine compartment with a bit of wire to spare.


The first attempt at mounting the new coil was too high so the coil wire ended up being too short. Lowering the new coil helps that, and it made reattaching the harness clip that hadn't been refastened during the rebuild easier, too. Two clips, one screw. Keeping both the wire and the coil away from the throttle linkage, the new location worked better, and it's upright as it should be. We can get a new longer coil wire later. Went and cranked it to make sure that Wat hadn't killed it, and it fired off on the first half a crank. Impressive! So since the distributor kit had come with new plugs and plugs are easy peasy on these cars. Wat spent 17 minutes that he'll never recover taking out 8 adequate plugs and replacing them with new. The color on the old ones was good, which was/is relieving. We gapped these at .034" for a bit more uuumph since we have more fire, and the test crank was the same half-crank fireoff. Be curious to see how long it takes to fire this morning.


It was all kinda hot yesterday. Difference is, the breeze blows here and there ain't one back to home. We go in this morning to meet with The Banker Lady about the place across the road. Maybe there will be enough money left over to start building Wat's hanger.