:lol: yup, the miss couldn't find my spares either, so the eagle will serve as tow rig again tonight, lol, I'll have to grab a pic of that, and post it on a jeep site 
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."Turn Key" Is Not An Option
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Trivia!!!
What's wrong in this pic?
I had changed the ignition module the night before (and hooked it up, btw), along with the coil, call it kind of a fail safe, she still didn't run. Following day I removed the cap/rotor and found this mess. As soon as I saw it, I had realized what had happened (daylight, verses working at night made the difference there). I'll leave it at that for now, anyone see the problem?
What's wrong in this pic?
I had changed the ignition module the night before (and hooked it up, btw), along with the coil, call it kind of a fail safe, she still didn't run. Following day I removed the cap/rotor and found this mess. As soon as I saw it, I had realized what had happened (daylight, verses working at night made the difference there). I'll leave it at that for now, anyone see the problem?
Besides the green wire, isn't that tab with the hole in it supposed to be hooked to the vacuum advance can?
...and no half naked chicks.
...and no half naked chicks.
Ding Ding!! Yup that's it. From what I can tell, as I haven't dismanteled the distributor to verify, the bushing went to hell, almost siezing to the vac advance cam, ripping the tab off the vac advance can, and throwing it out of time, hence the no start. Lucky me I'm a hoarder 
, and I had a spare distributor laying around. I swapped the gear off the one pictured to my spare, dropped it in, and the jeep is off and running again 8) . First time I have ever seen that, I really should take the other one apart to see exctly what caused the failure though, hopefully it's what I suspect, and not an issue with my actual set up binding.
Man, tough crowd, I didn't realize I was on Pirate4x4, lol, next time I'll find some half naked chicks to pose with my broken parts
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, and I had a spare distributor laying around. I swapped the gear off the one pictured to my spare, dropped it in, and the jeep is off and running again 8) . First time I have ever seen that, I really should take the other one apart to see exctly what caused the failure though, hopefully it's what I suspect, and not an issue with my actual set up binding. Man, tough crowd, I didn't realize I was on Pirate4x4, lol, next time I'll find some half naked chicks to pose with my broken parts
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In the past week or so, I went through and rebuilt the MC2100 for the red car, definite improvement on how the car runs, not perfect, but it is just a tractor carb so I can't expect the world from it. Continuing battle against electric choke issues with the 2100, tried many different ideas to make this sucker work, even adapted a q-jet thermostat to it, lol.
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Last night was the final straw, was fawkin sick of this electric choke busting my balls, bring on the manual choke! Not quite as simple as just throwing it on and hooking up a cable. The electric/stove choke works with a longer throttle shaft than the manuals do. So a quick change of that, some resizing of linkage parts, and the choke is on. Sorry no pics of that, pretty basic boring crap, just adapting 2150 parts to work on the 2100, Another thing I had to do, the carb I robbed the throttle shaft from was a Ford variant, so it had a different lever than the amc variants did. A new adapter was needed to hook up my throttle rod.
Scrap steel I had laying around, couple holes, few whacks with the hammer, little vise work, a bit of cut off wheel carving, some paint, and we have a functional unit.
Much nicer than the cobbled mess "L" extension that was on the other lever
. So dumb looking, all my engine pics neglect to show it :lol: , (it was there, so I used it ).
I'll revisit the electric choke on a later date, find out why it binds up, and see if I can solve the problems. I just don't have the time to dick with it every night to fine tune. I needed a fast solid solution to getting the car running in the am, without jumping through hoops, lol. This will do for now, I'm still debating saying the hell with this primitive ford tractor sh*t all together, and swapping in a real carburetor
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proof
Last night was the final straw, was fawkin sick of this electric choke busting my balls, bring on the manual choke! Not quite as simple as just throwing it on and hooking up a cable. The electric/stove choke works with a longer throttle shaft than the manuals do. So a quick change of that, some resizing of linkage parts, and the choke is on. Sorry no pics of that, pretty basic boring crap, just adapting 2150 parts to work on the 2100, Another thing I had to do, the carb I robbed the throttle shaft from was a Ford variant, so it had a different lever than the amc variants did. A new adapter was needed to hook up my throttle rod.
Scrap steel I had laying around, couple holes, few whacks with the hammer, little vise work, a bit of cut off wheel carving, some paint, and we have a functional unit.
Much nicer than the cobbled mess "L" extension that was on the other lever
. So dumb looking, all my engine pics neglect to show it :lol: , (it was there, so I used it ).I'll revisit the electric choke on a later date, find out why it binds up, and see if I can solve the problems. I just don't have the time to dick with it every night to fine tune. I needed a fast solid solution to getting the car running in the am, without jumping through hoops, lol. This will do for now, I'm still debating saying the hell with this primitive ford tractor sh*t all together, and swapping in a real carburetor
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Project, get off my *ss, and remain young forever, hahaha. Little different aspect here, reclaiming some of my teenage days of carefree fun at minimal $ cost, but taking a little toll on the body. Back 15 years ago I lived on a bicycle, everything was centered around the days ride. That time has come and gone, I no longer have the time nor body to do it (broken back and pelvis kinda killed the hobby) Once in a while the old urge returns, "I gotta ride my bike" :lol: . My friend that I rode with since we were pre teens called me up a couple weeks ago to inform me of a recently opened bike park in our area. How could I refuse? I had to go check it out, since the itch to get "high" is always there. It's an addiction from way back when, my fear of heights is put on hold, as long as that two wheeled piece of steel is present to give me that extra sense of security.
me
my friend
All went well in the foam pit, we could crash without pain, kind of gave that invincible feeling of days past :lol: , back out in the park where crashing was a little more punishing, the mind set became F**** it, better to have eaten sh*t, than let the ole noggin tell you us we're too old for this sh*t.
Bowl riding, dizzy, lol
Friend on the goofy wall.
My highlight of the evening
Yeah kinda lame. but I have been off the bike for a number of years now due to the injury (7 years), so far so good, no pain I can't deal with, so, this may become a weekly exercise routine for me . I had the most fun sober, than I've had in years. 8)
me
my friend
All went well in the foam pit, we could crash without pain, kind of gave that invincible feeling of days past :lol: , back out in the park where crashing was a little more punishing, the mind set became F**** it, better to have eaten sh*t, than let the ole noggin tell you us we're too old for this sh*t.
Bowl riding, dizzy, lol
Friend on the goofy wall.
My highlight of the evening
Yeah kinda lame. but I have been off the bike for a number of years now due to the injury (7 years), so far so good, no pain I can't deal with, so, this may become a weekly exercise routine for me
. I had the most fun sober, than I've had in years. 8)- Status
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