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Morris

Morris

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...In over a year. It went pretty bad.

I set the toe-in while I had the fenders and bonnet off the car. Bad idea.

Also, brakes locked up about half way into the 1 mile drive to the gas station. Which considering I was running on 3 cylinders, getting home was a bit touch and go.

Made it home and diagnosed a bad coil (I am running a Coil On Plug set up). Oh well. Junk yard parts, eh?

The one piece of encouraging news is that when I was testing the coils, the working ones were arcing at about 2 inches away from the block.

That's pretty spectacular considering that my old ignition system could just barely bridge the .030 gap.
 
Guess what, it will work out and it won't be long at all.
 
Keep at it!

I've been on some hairy "first drives".

I practically invented the duct-tape wiring harness.
Brakes? Hey, the hand-brake <span style="text-decoration: underline">sort of</span> works!
Throttle? This piece of string will do!
Steering wheel? Where's my Vise-Grips? :jester:
 
You left out the "pickle bucket" seat.
 
Trevor Jessie said:
You left out the "pickle bucket" seat.
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Reminds my of the last 20 mile ride in my "multi colored" '72 Skylark convertable up HWY59.

455, open exhaust, milk crate seats, driver and passenger reaching outside to hold unbolted front fenders on. Volkswagen pushrods instead of bolts through motormounts. Ahhhh, those were the days. :hammer: :jester:
 
Went to the junk yard and picked up a "new" coil then went for my second drive. It went much better... Though my steering is still messed up.
 
I diagnosed and repaired my steering problem. It turns out that when you fail to tighten the steering rack mounting bolts, the rack can shift around and cause make for some very interesting driving.

Drove her to work today. Still quite a few rough edges to smooth out, but I am mostly road ready!
 
Morris said:
I diagnosed and repaired my steering problem. It turns out that when you fail to tighten the steering rack mounting bolts, the rack can shift around and cause make for some very interesting driving.
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who knew? :laugh:

glad that's all it was and glad you diagnosed it in the driveway and not in a ditch!
 
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