Time for an update I guess. I got a couple of rafters up for my garage add-on. I hope to get the rest this weekend, get it finished and get some junk moved out the garage and Old Blue moved in.
I was about to go get the other 16 rafters I need but my 72 decided it wanted to pump more fuel on the ground than into the engine, so a new fuel pump it is. I also took the time to replace the points and put in a pertronix unit. That worked out well.
I drove the truck about a mile to my dad's house to use his timing light to check everything. Apparently the timing is way out, because the truck overheated by the time I got over there. That's never happened with this truck before. We threw the timing light on it, but the timing mark is WAY advanced, about a quarter of the way around the balance from the timing gauge. There was no way to turn the distributor enough to get the mark where it should be while keeping the engine running. Any ideas guys? I'm wondering if my harmonic balancer is coming apart and the outer ring has rotated? The truck runs ok when I adjust the timing by ear, but I can't seem to use the light to adjust it "right"...thanks for any thoughts...
SOOOOOO this led to our fir st work on Old Blue together...nothing big, but we removed the temo gauge from the old trio set. We're going to put it on the old 72 so we can watch the temps on it when we get to work on it later this week...
Proud papa moment!
