[tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy

  • From: "Alma Jo Barrera" <patchmongrel1@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:52:51 -0500

I know how you feel.

I just (Saturday morning) lost engine with 992 miles. froze up. over 2 grand.

blew #3 piston coming home from The Classic in April 2011.

blew #1 piston coming home from The Classic in April 2010.

Oh yea. and my 61 bug spit out a plug. Threads and all :(

Alma Jo
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Smith 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 7:46 PM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy


  I feel your pain , good luck on getting it fixed

  Sent from my iPhone

  On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


    The other Paul Smith and I have worked to get the bus back to road worthy 
shape in time for T@P, but we are getting down to the wie.  Here's our problem. 
 We have a fuel/air mix problem that we can't seem to kick.  Symptoms are a bus 
that does not idle correctly and Paul has to 3-foot it at all stops.  That's 
one on the clutch, one on the brake, and one on the gas to keep us from 
stalling. The first and easiest answer is to adjust the idle.  The screw does 
nothing and based on our Muir book, we cleaned the carb.  Now will hold a 
fairly steady idle , but it's too low.  When you engage the transmission it 
dies.  Or when you rev the throttle, on the way back down to idle it goes too 
low and dies.  So far we have: cleaned carb with carb cleaner, cleaned air 
filter, replaced fuel pump and rod, replace valve cover gasket (unrelated), 
replaced spark plugs, checked timing, run compression test... all is good.  The 
only thing we havent replaced is points, but  I surely would have thought 
fouled points would show up in the compression test.  

    Any words of wisdom, we're caught between takinging it to a mechanic down 
the street for God knows how much moolah, or skipping Transporters altogether, 
which really means we would still come in our pontiac and just camp in a tent.

    Help!
    Cari smith

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