trotti
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Hello all - I'm the proud new owner of a 1959 100-6. As an added detail (which may affect the answer?) the PO's restoration of the car involved replacing the numbers matching 100-6 6 port with a much later engine (I believe it was from a '67, but have yet to confirm). Thankfully, I got the numbers matching engine along with the one in the car, but that's a much later project and beyond the scope of this post.
The car underwent a complete and very thorough frame-off restoration some years back and I bought it after it had sat for some time. Very clean, just a bit tired from lack of use. Yesterday, I got it up on stands and bled the brakes thoroughly, emptied the fuel tank (new tank with the restoration but I wasn't confident the gas was fresh), flushed the coolant and will eventually change the oil (only so much time in one evening - so excited I didn't even stop to eat dinner).
Although I'm mechanically inclined, I'm no mechanic. I met my match when I was trying to bleed the clutch. The clutch slave sits on the bell housing right beside the frame rail and the inner fairing. With some medieval contortionistic chicanery, I was able to get a line on the bleed screw, but wasn't able to get a wrench in to actually loosen the bleeder. Next thought - unbolt the slave and bleed it off the bell, right? Much like my inability to get a wrench to the bleeder, I couldn't get one to the upper bolt on the slave.
Any ideas? Is this common to all, or does the fact that I have the later engine paired with the 100-6 frame cause the issue? The only thing I can think of will be to remove the interior and transmission tunnel to get at it from above.
As an aside (off topic, I know) but any other suggested maintenance for a car that has been sitting? I know the first response will be to strip and clean the carbs - a task I'm not looking forward to. Other advice?
The car underwent a complete and very thorough frame-off restoration some years back and I bought it after it had sat for some time. Very clean, just a bit tired from lack of use. Yesterday, I got it up on stands and bled the brakes thoroughly, emptied the fuel tank (new tank with the restoration but I wasn't confident the gas was fresh), flushed the coolant and will eventually change the oil (only so much time in one evening - so excited I didn't even stop to eat dinner).
Although I'm mechanically inclined, I'm no mechanic. I met my match when I was trying to bleed the clutch. The clutch slave sits on the bell housing right beside the frame rail and the inner fairing. With some medieval contortionistic chicanery, I was able to get a line on the bleed screw, but wasn't able to get a wrench in to actually loosen the bleeder. Next thought - unbolt the slave and bleed it off the bell, right? Much like my inability to get a wrench to the bleeder, I couldn't get one to the upper bolt on the slave.
Any ideas? Is this common to all, or does the fact that I have the later engine paired with the 100-6 frame cause the issue? The only thing I can think of will be to remove the interior and transmission tunnel to get at it from above.
As an aside (off topic, I know) but any other suggested maintenance for a car that has been sitting? I know the first response will be to strip and clean the carbs - a task I'm not looking forward to. Other advice?