[elky] Re: Race Car Sunday
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:49:39 -0500
Have a safe trip Chris, and I hope you made it there OK Ray.
Events of the last few weeks, and what has been building for probably 2 or 3
years, have forced me to cancel the trip to the salt. As Ray is painfully
aware, Alcoholism is a nasty disease to which Cindy has fallen prey to. She
has admitted it to herself, and has gotten involved with some very helpful
people outside the family now in AA, and is excited about starting to battle
this disease. She is the daughter of an abusive alcoholic, and all 4 kids in
her family have pretty severe issues because of it (and the genetics of the
disease). Cindy just held out longer than the rest, probably because of
caring for Mom, and maybe in spite of it.
No amount of money in the world can buy an almost 36 year relationship, so a
plane ticket was nothing for me to lose as a sacrifice. I am here for her
now in this critical time, and that's what counts. I guess this is a call
for the positive waves, it is not easy, but we will get through this. She
was pumped up about the meeting last night, where she met many that make her
situation seem tame in comparison, but no less serious. She is looking
forward to her next meeting, and learning to deal with this.
I have a week of automotive therapy and fix up around the house that I have
needed for a long time too. The salt will (hopefully) be there next year,
and I can try again. I told Nate that it would be cool to have the El Camino
loaded with overdrive to try that!
I ordered a higher flow fuel pump. The TBI chip dude thinks that may be why
it is leaning out. The stock pump can't deal with the horsepower I have. I
have to check the pressure, although the regulator is rebuilt now. I will be
starting on body mounts..... at least spraying them down with PB blaster
today.
JC
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Chris Lindh <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Makes me wonder if that rocker has an issue. Hopefully it was just loose.
> Looking back your push rods should be correct:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/85monte/85monte10.html and I assume they are
> heavy duty. Do you remember what length they were?
>
> Lord willin' and the creek don't rise I touch down at in SLC 10:27AM
> tomorrow.
>
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> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Friday while I had the race car at the alignment shop it dropped a
>> cylinder. It was firing thru the carburetor and actually sounded like a rod
>> knock or an exhaust leak...that's what I thought it was and I spent all day
>> Saturday changing exhaust manifold gaskets. Don't ask why it took all day.
>> Just imagine turning 7/16" head machine screws one flat at a time above your
>> head and dropping the wrench every 3rd flat.
>>
>> When I fired it up it did the same damned thing. I drained and changed
>> the oil and filter and there was no metal in it so I felt ok about that. So
>> I figgered it must have been a valve that has its static lash set too
>> tight. I found one roller rocker
>>
>>
>>
>> (picture of motor when I built it in 05) that was loose. I pulled the
>> spark plug wire on that cylinder and the firing thru the carb went away. So
>> I knew it was number 5. Then several of us: Jim Halladay, Thomas "Pork Pie"
>> Graf (a German photographer who's staying with me until we head for the
>> salt) and I started trying to figure it out.
>>
>>
>>
>> Eventually, Thomas, who was messing around with the pushrods said he
>> thought he had it correctly installed. I fired it up and it ran great. I
>> don't understand it a bit. It ran fine when we first started it a coupla
>> weeks ago and then it didn't. How in the world a pushrod jumped out of its
>> pocket in the roller lifter is beyond me. But it's running and we're
>> buttoning it up so we can load it on the trailer tomorrow morning and head
>> for the salt.
>>
>> I dunno, but I'm not gonna argue. It sure sounds good.
>>
>> r
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