It's Not The Coil, It's The Gas

Replacing my coil didn't do much for the missing problem. I did make it home, though. When Ariel's dad removed my carburetor filters, he found a LOT of crud (rust-dust) blocking them. He figured if there's crud there, there's also crud inside the passages of the carburetors.

So, last Sunday, Ariel siphoned all the gas out of my tank, and then she and her dad removed the fuel pick up from the tank. They discovered that there was no in-tank filter (sock) on the pick up tube so they put one on. They removed the last little bit of gas from the tank and blew it out to make sure all the fumes were gone. Then they used a shop-vac to suck any remaining crud from the bottom of the tank. Ariel's dad blew air through my fuel line to clear it of any crud. He then disassembled my carburetors and blew air through all the passages before putting them back together and re-installing them.

This morning, I started right up, but something was still not right. My engine bogged when I tried pulling away from the stop sign. Ariel’s dad tore down one of my carburetors and found that a piece was missing. Once he replaced that, all was good, and I got him to work without incident.

My speedometer is wigging out from disuse. They replaced my speedometer cable over the weekend, so now the needle goes up with speed. Unfortunately, it appears to be too fast and once it reads over 40 MPH, it starts to jump around. Hopefully, it’ll calm down with use. Also, my odometer is stuck. They’ll have to get in there and tweak thinks to get it working again. On the positive side, my gas gauge works.”