Still no nap but I must have gotten the adjustments right enough because it started and didn't miss - so nothing got bent LOL.
I just had the cell phone with me and the video I took sounds nothing like the car. From under the hood it seems to be echoing or something. I'm pretty confident the engine runs quiet once it pumps everything up but videos say otherwise. It's a cheap phone that cost 100% more than I wanted to pay for it in the first place, so ...
I think the odd noises I hear from time to time are coming from underneath the car. Of course the cell phone didn't pick any of that up. Pushing in the clutch doesn't cause it or solve it so it doesn't seem related to that. I think it's mostly junk exhaust parts, pending eventual replacement. Another noise issue is likely related to the lack of interior insulation. Did I mention inside the car sounds like you're in an echo chamber? I was in the car the other day with the doors shut and windows up, said something out loud and it was like I was inside a drum. So yeah, that could be part of it too.
I also wonder if the fuel pump is making a racket. It makes good pressure and my oil level isn't going up so if there's anything wrong there it's strictly noise right right now. Yes it was new. The alternator is not, so I might swap that for another one and see if that helps with noise.
I raised the front bowl level and that made a good difference. I started with the timing at 15, then added timing and saw the idle speed increase, adjusted the idle, added timing, etc. I stopped that stuff at 26*, and set it back to 15. It might want 26* or more, but you're going to have a hard time convincing me it's *right*. So there's more to do there.
Also, with timing set at 15 and temps at or about 190*, when I turned it off there was no run on this time. It does seem to idle faster as time goes on for some reason. I've seen that before but don't remember ever solving it. Something up with the carb maybe? I lubed the distributor pivots and weights and all that.
We were just close enough to FL to get drowned with rain the past 3 days so no drive time this time. I did back it up a bit just to see if I had screwed up the shifter adjustment and it works better than before so I'm not messing with it any more.
Very important. In fact, it gives me a boner!
My nephew was telling me you have to break stuff down into component metals to get good money out of it. I said I don't care because the point to me is to get rid of junk, not to make a living at it. No way am I spending days busting up parts into steel, aluminum, other, to make an extra fifty cents.
