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jlaird

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Started Miss Agatha.

Got timeing adjusted.

Runs ever so rough. Like a cylinder is down.

Oil pressure sucks.

Clutch is not bleed properly as I thought.


Sigh.
 
Jack:

Sometimes it is best to walk away and come back.

Pat
 
Jack, you shall overcome!

Though I do disagree with your thread title.

At our age, every day we wake up, get out of bed and start walking around is a GREAT Day.

Have you been to any of your high school, or service outfit reunions lately?

If so, I think you'll have a tendency to agree with me.


So many(more all the time) of our younger day cohorts are not around anymore. So any day that we ARE is a very good day.
 
Well, carb problem was a stuck float valve on front carb.

Clutch prob is maybe I got it in backwards, duh. Pull the engine.

Oil pressure sucks. No clue. Will go with another pump when engine is out, next week. I have one on the shelf.

Yep, I am a bit tired at the present.
 
Jack, what are you calling sucky oil pressure. Just curious because I am not happy with my own oil pressure.
 
10 lbs idle hot, 20 or so running hot.

I insist on at least 20 at hot idle.
 
Jack
If you are pulling the engine again, just replace the rod and main bearings. Low oil pressure means worn bearings.
So if a new pump did not fix it, change the bearings.
 
yep, has new bearings. And the jounals and mains were polished and measured. But something is wrong. Oh yea also new cam bearing.
 
I will pull the pan and check all the bearings with plastiguage, have never done that but now is the time to learn.
 
Pretty easy to do, Jack...remove the main & rod caps, lay the plastiguage on the journals, torque the caps, take them off, measure how wide the plastiguage was squished - check to see if its within tolerances.
 
But that only checks one side?? Don't I need to do both or double it or something?
 
Sorry, should've made that clear - you can lay down 2 pieces - but, you really only need to do one side if you had everything turned....the package it comes in gives god instructions.

Never build an engine without it.
 
Ahh, okies. Will get some very soonish.

This really has me bugged.

The clutch, which must be in backwards I did, even though I do know better and thought I did it correctly. But the oil pressure really upsets me.
 
Something is wrong in there Ben and I will get to the bottom of it and report in the hopes that someone else will not do the same dumb thing.

It is really the oil pressure that has me upset most as I really don't know the cause yet.
 
Is it possible that its just air in the clutch hydraulic line? I have seen this a gob of times. That cluch master does not move a lot of fluid, not enough to get all the air out of the line in one pump to bleed it.
 
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