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6.8 miles w/out breakdown!!

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Hey! It's a start, ain't it?

And that's 6.8 CONTINUOUSLY driven miles,
not 7 ea one mile hood hops.

Yesterday, I renovated an old Canada mechanical fuel
pump donated by a fellow BCF member. I removed the
problematic, very low psi mechanical pump and installed
this oldie but cleaned up Canada pump.

Tested at 3.0 psi fuel pressure (constant)and 16 inches of
mercury vacuum from the carbs. So I reconnected everything,
balanced the cleaned carbs, reset the timing, installed the
air filters, reset the warm idle, checked the new plugs one
last time and headed out. (cellular in pocket)

1 mile in the hood at 25 mph - 3000 rpm max.
2 mi r/t to the poison gas station - 50 mph max
Crypt Car engine feeling strong so..............
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Enter the "white Knuckle Zone"- expressway in PR!!

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1.9 miles on the expressway at 50 mph- 4 ways blinking.
Cars honking at me, semis running up my butt, dirty looks
from old lady drivers.

1.9 miles return trip on the expressway- foot in it- hit 75 mph.

Back in the home garage, nice steady idle at 800 rpm.

Wish I'd been born French.
Scots don't have enough brains to know when we're beaten and quit;
particularly us thick skulled clan Fraser folks. Eh, Nick??

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'Bout time we had some GOOD news out of Puerto Rico!

Felicidades, Amigo - sounds like you're getting there!

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Alright Dale!! <doing finest two finger opera clap here....we must maintain our decorum now, must'nt we!!!> :laugh:
 

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Amos LIVES!!! Congrats!
 
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Silverghost said:
Alright Dale!! <doing finest two finger opera clap here....we must maintain our decorum now, must'nt we!!!> :laugh:

Thanks Ghost - before your time, long ago............

During the entire 12 months of 2006 the Crypt Car managed a
miserly 67 miles driven total and averaged less than 5 miles
between breakdowns. Shabby for an "almost 100% restored" TR6.

Believe it or not- today was quite an accomplishment. A VERY
positive step forward for this particular bucket of bolts 69TR6.

Back on the road toward someday being reliable and a daily driver.

later gator,

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Good ALWAYS Triumphs over evil....gotta like that middle word there ya know! I just hope I don't face the same challenges with the Jag I just got! It is a project though and I knew it when I bought it. Time will tell...

You will continue to Triumph over your challenges! :smile:
 
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hondo402000 said:
so was it the fuel pump the problem?


<span style="color: #990000">Hey Hondo!!

Too early to tell about the pump diagnostic with
only 6.8 miles driven without a breakdown.

I'm thinking if I can manage to drive 40 or 50 miles
without a breakdown, (due to fuel delivery related to
the pump), maybe then we can say the pump was the culprit.
Other, routine breakdowns are a different matter.

:yesnod: :wall:

Until then, the pump diagnostic door remains open.

Upcoming breakdowns? Anyone's guess at this point.
The rebuilt distributor has 1500 miles on it.
The rebuilt carbs have 1700 miles on them.
The radiator and cooling system has 1500 miles on it.
The points have maybe 1300 miles.
The clutch and all suspension parts have 1700 miles them.
The brake system has 1700 miles on it.

Any one is a candidate for breakdown and rebuild year 2007.
Plus hundreds of items I can only imagine.

<span style="color: #6600CC">Crypt Car - The Poster Child of the BCF!!!!
Donations welcomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span>

dale</span>
 

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I want a ruling on your fuel pump problem as a breakdown.There has got to be another terminology for it.
 
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DNK said:
I want a ruling on your fuel pump problem as a breakdown.There has got to be another terminology for it.

<span style="color: #990000">House Rules, Don:

If the Beast can manage to stumble/rumble/stutter/buck and shake
back into the home garage under it's own engine power, it ain't
a breakdown. (some exceptions though)

Anything that involves, towing, flatbed, pushing or dragging the
Beast is truly a breakdown.

For example: the tranny locking up and a tie rod end falling off at
45 mph while the Beast carooms across some old lady's front lawn
at 11:00 PM, qualifies as a typical Crypt Car breakdown.

Three hours spent swapping out a dead fuel pump beside a busy
highway DOES qualify as a technical (TKO) breakdown.

:wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :cryin:

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Dale,

I'm very happy to hear that the car is running, but concerned about what happened. If I have this right from all of these threads, it seems that your old pump was working OK, I sent you a newly rebuilt pump that worked OK for a while, then failed and now you're back to a rebuilt old pump.

If the rebuilt pump that I sent you has low pressure and failed, please send it back to me. I want to see exactly why it's like that.

Mine has 3 lbs psi and so should the one that I sent to you. I need to know what went wrong.
 

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Apologies for the terminology. Just didn't know any other phrase
 

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Tinster said:
Dale! what did you do to me?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good news tho.. 347th times a charm, eh?
 

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Dale,
If the rebuilt pump that I sent you has low pressure and failed, please send it back to me. I want to see exactly why it's like that.

Paul, I thought he found three screws had loosened on the rebuilt pump.
 

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Silverghost said:
During the entire 12 months of 2006 the Crypt Car managed a
miserly 67 miles driven total and averaged less than 5 miles
between breakdowns. Shabby for an "almost 100% restored" TR6.

Dale I hate to say it, but at this point Amos seems to be doing better than my beast. I have only gotten about 2000km in nearly 4 years, and the engine head is back at the machine shop again. Now to make it more fun, the machinist says that the nice new valves and guide which were sent from the UK don't fit.

Since the valves came from a very reliable supplier, I am just a bit worried that the valves are in fact correct, but that some **&*&#@ DPO or stupid machinist in the past modified the head to get some piece of junk different valves and guides to fit. If so, I am going to need to find a new head (to go with the new block I found last summer). The biggest problem is that I just don't have time for this.
 

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Don,

I didn't say that I wanted to keep it, just to do the autopsy.

Shawn,

That's what I thought, but I'm bouncing between two different threads trying to keep up.
 
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