Re: "Waking Sleeping Beauty" .... The Blog!
Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2011/3/5 23:35:30
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How about tomorrow? It's real tough to take any kind of meaningful picture in the carport where it's been sitting.
The reason why tomorrow will be different is that today "Sleeping Beauty" woke up - ALL the way up! So tomorrow I can park her where pictures won't be a problem - under her own power.
Needless to say, it's been an interesting day! Knowing that this was it, I went through everything. A few drops of oil in the oil cups of the generator and distributor. R&R'd the water pump. Went through the oil filter cannister, topped off the brakes and turned the key.
She fired right up. A quick check of the dash gauges showed good Oil Pressure; a happy Generator and having put exactly 11 gallons of gas in an bone dry tank the gas gauge showed a little over a half a tank.
I had put white paper towels under and around the Oil Filter Cannister but they were unnecessary. I think what the problem was that when I pulled the old Oil Filter I forgot where the spring was supposed to go. I put it in the bottom on the pipe and put the oil filter on top of that. The car didn't like it. Today, the filter went in FIRST with the spring on top and the oil stayed inside.
Without a vacuum leak the size of the Holland Tunnel, the engine idled very smoothly. No black or blue smoke out the exhaust once the last of the mouse mummies got blown clear - the white smoke disappeared once the engine warmed up.
I wound up putting 5 quarts of transmission fluid in before the level reached the correct mark on the dipstick.
The brakes were really strange. At first while the engine was running; I tried the brakes - very hard pedal. I tried it again, still hard. I then looked down and I swear the pedal looked like it was doing pushups! The pedal went down - back up - down again and then stopped at the correct position all this action without my foot touching the pedal. I put my foot on the pedal again and it acted just like it should. I then put the car in drive - and it immediately wanted to go forward but the brakes stopped it. Same for reverse
Next was the power steering which was missing the pump pulley. I had attached that last night. Today after topping it off several times after turning the wheel from lock to lock, I have power steering - but with more like 50% of the effort removed. Probably still air trapped in the system.
There was some intermittent valve tapping but that is slowly happening less and less. However I think I'll drain the oil this week after the engine is warmed up as the fresh oil I put in turned pitch black after literally "Minutes" of use. Considering that taffy like crap that was at the bottom of the Oil Filter Cannister, dropping the oil pan and cleaning that out probably couldn't hurt.
I do plan to go for a short early morning drive tomorrow. Pictures and more news tomorrow!
Please keep the ideas and suggestions coming!
55PackardGuy wrote:
As important as they are, I'm kinda tireda looking at gas tanks... when will we get to see a pic of "Sleeping Beauty" (From the Blog! not the Book!) Jim, I am aware of the source of the title of your blog, I think.
How about tomorrow? It's real tough to take any kind of meaningful picture in the carport where it's been sitting.
The reason why tomorrow will be different is that today "Sleeping Beauty" woke up - ALL the way up! So tomorrow I can park her where pictures won't be a problem - under her own power.
Needless to say, it's been an interesting day! Knowing that this was it, I went through everything. A few drops of oil in the oil cups of the generator and distributor. R&R'd the water pump. Went through the oil filter cannister, topped off the brakes and turned the key.
She fired right up. A quick check of the dash gauges showed good Oil Pressure; a happy Generator and having put exactly 11 gallons of gas in an bone dry tank the gas gauge showed a little over a half a tank.
I had put white paper towels under and around the Oil Filter Cannister but they were unnecessary. I think what the problem was that when I pulled the old Oil Filter I forgot where the spring was supposed to go. I put it in the bottom on the pipe and put the oil filter on top of that. The car didn't like it. Today, the filter went in FIRST with the spring on top and the oil stayed inside.
Without a vacuum leak the size of the Holland Tunnel, the engine idled very smoothly. No black or blue smoke out the exhaust once the last of the mouse mummies got blown clear - the white smoke disappeared once the engine warmed up.
I wound up putting 5 quarts of transmission fluid in before the level reached the correct mark on the dipstick.
The brakes were really strange. At first while the engine was running; I tried the brakes - very hard pedal. I tried it again, still hard. I then looked down and I swear the pedal looked like it was doing pushups! The pedal went down - back up - down again and then stopped at the correct position all this action without my foot touching the pedal. I put my foot on the pedal again and it acted just like it should. I then put the car in drive - and it immediately wanted to go forward but the brakes stopped it. Same for reverse
Next was the power steering which was missing the pump pulley. I had attached that last night. Today after topping it off several times after turning the wheel from lock to lock, I have power steering - but with more like 50% of the effort removed. Probably still air trapped in the system.
There was some intermittent valve tapping but that is slowly happening less and less. However I think I'll drain the oil this week after the engine is warmed up as the fresh oil I put in turned pitch black after literally "Minutes" of use. Considering that taffy like crap that was at the bottom of the Oil Filter Cannister, dropping the oil pan and cleaning that out probably couldn't hurt.
I do plan to go for a short early morning drive tomorrow. Pictures and more news tomorrow!
Please keep the ideas and suggestions coming!
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