[tcb] Re: Well Duh!
- From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:22:43 -0700 (PDT)
Saturday afternoon would be better. I will contact you later in the week.---mark
Ronnie Hughes <y4s6wd5@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:That sounds good. Either one night
this week, or I can come by your place Saturday afternoon before the HVW night
show. Let me know which would be better for you. I'm open to either.
Ronnie
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Sawyer
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Well Duh!
Glad to hear it's running better. Just let me know if you would still like Mark
J. and I to come over and help tune it a little better.---mark
Ronnie Hughes <y4s6wd5@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I called Mark S last night and we
talked about Sparky the popper. He kept coming back to the timing or
distributor. This evening before he was planning to come over, I got my VW for
idiots book out and stared at the pictures of a distributor cap for about 10
minutes. There it was, right in front of my eyes, the distributor rotates
clockwise, not counterclockwise. Turns our Sparky has been trying to run on
the number 1 & 3 cylinder for I don't know how long. Once I changed the wires
on the distributor around, it fired right up. The way it was smoking makes me
wonder if it has been firing only on #1 & #3 for a long time or just since I
got back from ES and decided to FIX it.
I called Mark and told him what I found and saved him a trip to The Woodlands.
Still not running great, but no more popping and now I think I can adjust the
carbs and get it to smooth out. I drove around the block a couple of times and
most of the smoking is gone.
Let's see, a 1914/2 is a 957.
Ronnie, poorer, but wiser Hughes
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