DAY 110

Well this week end I decided that I would make some time for the little B. Because I like to drink out of clean glasses, I figured that the lil B would like to drink out of a clean gas tank. So prepare yourself for :

Operation…

PURE GAS

Also operation...

NEGATIVE GROUND

oh, and operation ...

RETRO FIT PUMPER

I thought I would start in doing what I promised a couple months ago and get this thing started... for real!

After leaving some fresh gas in that tank for a couple of weeks to mingle with the old goo from 27 years ago. I pulled the gas tank. I figured there was enough mingling.

I drained that gas and pulled the tank.

After a good spraying at the self serve car wash and some rinsing and repeating I had a clean tank.

I brought it back and put a flat Rustolium paint job on it and put it back in.

I would have taken it to a radiator shop to get it dipped and repainted, but I am being cheap and don't want to wait.

Also, as it turns out, the fuel pump was dead (big surprise as these things die all the time even under reasonable use).

I looked at the cost of a direct replacement, but the NOS versions are $160 and as I noted above.... I opted for the retro fit universal version that costs $50.

The differences are that the new one does make the "tick" sound that the original ones do. The new one is pretty quiet if you are in to that and costs much less and is at the similar standards as the original and a fraction of the price.

It took a couple feet of hose and some fitting and flexing but we got it in place.

After the retro fit, I decided to do the famous positive ground to negative ground conversion.

It sounds like there would be a difficult and terrible task refitting the car with a negative ground system, but it is just switching the wiring on the coil, zapping the generator and switching the wires on the Tachometer.

I put everything together and the fuel gets to the carbs, but does not go in. They are seized up. With all the work all I got was clean gas to the carbs. However, I primed the carbs and got the car to start and run for about 4-5 seconds before dieing. I primed again and got it to start several times before it ran dry.

Looks like she will run as soon as I get the carbs cleaned and tweaked.