Recent content by RUSTY Cuda

I have a friend (Mark / charger man from the old days) who does everything himself on all his cars, new & old alike, will ask him if he wants to dive in with me to change the pump in my yard & what that will involve? Again I don't want to take half the car apart AGAIN! But also don't want to...

What ya thinkin 68, will a new oil pump be necessary, or is being at the low end of the range livable, for me & the engine?

Oh yea, I looked up the pressures, 30 to 80 so I'm at the bottom of the barrel there. One thing it did say that made me feel a tad better, minimum press at idle 8 lbs Could not find the idle speed settings, for some reason 850 sticks in my head & 1500 on fast? Now I just wait till tuesday &...

So I put the new connector on the choke wire & figured I'd head into the abyss! Started up with 40 lbs oil pressure & 5 on the fuel pressure, after warm dropped to 30, drove around the side streets for a while, early on it was dropping to 20 when I stopped, light flashed a little, got a little...

At this point with this haunted car I need the bleeding to stop. I'll try the oil with STP & see if the #'s come up any. At least that will take a fouled up oil filter out of the picture. Why with all this am I not getting some nasty rat tat tats out of the valves/rockers? When It was idling I...

OK todays saga, put in the STP & started it up, started at40lbs, I would assume before the STP had time to do anything. My choke wire fell off so I had a hard time warming it up, finally saw that & put it back, that will get a new clip & wire tomorrow. So I lower the idle 1/2 turn after...

Could have saved all that & moved into the charger! I have done almost everything in this house at least twice, most myself, next round if I live that long I'll have to pay someone to do it, that is gonna hurt!

With the in line gauge when I removed the first one it was a pretty constant 7, one day it did go down to 6 while idling in the garage. Gonna pray for a miracle & try 68's STP idea, will stop at my mechanics & see how much a pump would be, I am so fed up with this car & don't really feel like...

so that's STP oil treatment. Guess it can't hurt to try a can, I think I'm running 10w30, was goimg to change the oil soon anyway, should I get 10W40 ?

I'm depressed!

I'm getting way too close to sledge-o-matic on this car. Found a good way in, A small piece of insulation near the gas pedal had 2 push pins, removed the upper & snaked it through there. I problem solved. Buy just tweaking the mounting bracket I got it to clear the A/C duct, 2nd problem solved...

Now I'm wondering if I should try the old fuel pump, I think I have an extra gasket. I saved a lot of the parts I pulled because the dang thing did run when I got it albeit not too good. Ignition control is already in new one failed there too. Gotta see if I can find the bill for mine, I think...

I can almost hear it! Lookin good.

The Carb book said not over 6 1/2, my pump delivers 7. I still can't figure these regulators, it's supposed to have a range of 4 to9 I could not get to 7, this time I did see 6, set it at five, after 1 shut down & restart it dropped below 4. See where it is on next startup, the one I pulled went...

Really not finding a good spot for the gauge in the car, where I'd like it the best it won't clear the A/C duct. Console had a nice screw spot but won't clear there eitherBy the blank clock it will go if I cut down the right side a bitBut how do I hide the oil tubing, I do need to disconnect my...