Re: "Waking Sleeping Beauty" .... The Blog!

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2012/8/14 15:49:05

Took "SB" for a "errand/test drive" to the bank and the FedEx store on Swan Island. She is still doing the buck and lurch at even throttle. The very interesting part of this jaunt to me was the segment from the bank on Interstate which in on a bluff overlooking the river (hence the name of the area being Overlook) to the FedEx which is at the bottom of the bluff. The street to the FedEX is rather steep and I could still feel the buck and lurch though not as bad as would be on level ground. The trip back up was the interesting part. Starting in Gear Start with the pedal about 1/3 of the way down she went smoothly through both gears and into lock-up and just as smooth after up the hill reaching 50 mph before I had to let up for the traffic light. This would be just the car for the old father and son bit (with modifications) "When I was your age I had to go three miles to school - up hill - BOTH WAYS!!!"

I'm thinking about getting one of those $16.83 Bosch fuel pumps I posted on JeffM's post myself; just to be able to eliminate the fuel pump part of the equation. But that fact that the up hill performance was as The God of Packard intended kind of eliminates the pump as a problem - at least to me.

Any ideas or thoughts would be wonderful!