[tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy
- From: "Alma Jo Barrera" <patchmongrel1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:58:07 -0500
yup.
well wish me luck. gonna check it out tomorrow. hope it is
clutch/flywheel/trans related and not the motor.
I can dream a little till it hits me in the pocket book again.
I just hope I have it back by Transporters.
Alma Jo
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa and the Stevester
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 8:58 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy
Ohhhhhh crap Alma,
That brand new engine in your bus locked up?
That sucks.
I have the tools and insert to fix you 61 if you want to borrow it.
Alma Jo Barrera wrote:
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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