Engine first start

What a terrific day!! We all learned a little bit today and the ball busting was relatively continuous from the time we arrived and saw the 2 mustang dudes on the hood of that old jeep. I’m wore out, 22 hour days are a bit much for my old ass anymore. The smile and joy on the kids face was worth everything. Im checking out for the night.
 
I admit it. I'm hooked on this story and am looking forward to reading the next "chapters". Well done ya'll. You have much to be proud of. Take care. Tom Worthington
 
Congrats all the way around.
Glad to hear a rumble.
Awesome job guys, my hat is off to all of you.
Now can someone take a road trip and help install a headliner in my car please? The interior guy went MIA on me.
 
Great job Team PB !

Dialing in the distributer with a base setting before fire up was pretty frigging awsome !

( I don't think I have refreshed a page here so many times as I did in this thread waiting for updates. lol )
 
the events over the last 24 hours or so has warmed my heart.
@89 Fox 351 ,you are not in TX anymore ,so DO NOT forget to add anti freeze cause sadly the temps will be dropping in the next month or so.
 
Dom 332 said:
the events over the last 24 hours or so has warmed my heart.
@89 Fox 351 ,you are not in TX anymore ,so DO NOT forget to add anti freeze cause sadly the temps will be dropping in the next month or so.
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Believe it or not we have to add it here to. Maybe not is South Texas but don’t not add it in North Texas unless you want a busted block or frost plugs pushed out. 😂
But you bring up a good point we get away with out it for 90% of the time. :thumbup:
 
SteveTX said:
Believe it or not we have to add it here to. Maybe not is South Texas but don’t not add it in North Texas unless you want a busted block or frost plugs pushed out. 😂
But you bring up a good point we get away with out it for 90% of the time. :thumbup:
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Yea I know its gets below 32 there,I was just reminding him so he does not have an "oh shit" moment one evening watching the news and they say its going down to 25 tonight.
 
Here's the "welp..." list

Idles about 1150, with 11.6 afr with electric choke.
12.5 afr warmed a bit, idle drops just under 1k

Just checking if that sounds correct.

Next weird thing, my speedometer added 0.8 miles while idling between yesterday and today... i triple checked and yes it's in neutral. It's a manual speedo gear just like oem, with gear into side of trans.

One of my afr gauges aren't working. It's a simple circuit, power and ground. I bypassed all the logging and other unnecessary wires. Not sure what to test on that. The manual says it will "sweep" until it warms up. Well it sweeps the entire time. It's the analog gauge, not the digital one. The digital one works fine. it is plugged in correctly it seems.

That's all for today. Back to you, Bruce
 
We should have made a video of the distributor gear change. It may be the only one of it's kind......ever! A 10 ton porta power with a hastily garage built jig made of scrap metal. Then they made me change the advance bushing and springs. Been literally more than 40 years since I laid eye's on a mechanical advance distributor. How it ran is a mystery to me.:larf: And that Ford firing order, with #1 cylinder on the wrong damn side of the motor.:facepalm: Me and Bangr started running plug wires onto the distributor, but Fox had to finally kick us out and do it himself.:LOL:
 
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