Ok! New starter was purchased and installed. It's a remanufactured unit from my local parts store. So far it's working great.
I'll keep and rebuild the old one to have on hand as a spare, and hopefully learn a new skill!
I took the car out with my daughter on Saturday morning and we cruised around for an hour or two, with stops along the way for a cars and coffee event and to pick up some meat from the butcher that was located approximately halfway between the cars and coffee and my house. All in all a the car did great! Still have some minor driveline vibration on deceleration and at about 70ish mph, but 1. I don't typically drive that fast anyway and 2. I have new u-joints to install and will do so at some point. Also, the front suspension needs a bit of an overhaul from general wear over time, again, I have the parts for this already, just need time and tools.
What I wasn't prepared for was the car not running right the next day. I had planned on taking the car to a car show, and my son and I went to get some gas and the car was stumbling, had no acceleration, and generally ran like total dog poo. A stark contrast to the previous day's performance.
I readjusted the timing and re-set the idle mix and idle speed. Nothing worked. I checked the plugs, the first two on each bank had massive amounts of carbon build up, which I was used to from all the hard starts flooding my cylinders with gas. I hadn't checked them since and I had installed the new starter, so figured the deposits were from before the new starter was installed. I cleaned all the plugs off and that only seems to have made things slightly worse.
Went through the steps again for timing (she likes a lot of advance) and idle mix/speed.... basically everything I had done before that made things better. Nothing.
A bit of a head scratcher. I'm going to check my fuel filter and see if some sediment may have built up from my old tank. Also going to take the carb off and do all of the checks I should have done before installing it.
Anyone think of anything else I should check?
I'll keep and rebuild the old one to have on hand as a spare, and hopefully learn a new skill!
I took the car out with my daughter on Saturday morning and we cruised around for an hour or two, with stops along the way for a cars and coffee event and to pick up some meat from the butcher that was located approximately halfway between the cars and coffee and my house. All in all a the car did great! Still have some minor driveline vibration on deceleration and at about 70ish mph, but 1. I don't typically drive that fast anyway and 2. I have new u-joints to install and will do so at some point. Also, the front suspension needs a bit of an overhaul from general wear over time, again, I have the parts for this already, just need time and tools.
What I wasn't prepared for was the car not running right the next day. I had planned on taking the car to a car show, and my son and I went to get some gas and the car was stumbling, had no acceleration, and generally ran like total dog poo. A stark contrast to the previous day's performance.
I readjusted the timing and re-set the idle mix and idle speed. Nothing worked. I checked the plugs, the first two on each bank had massive amounts of carbon build up, which I was used to from all the hard starts flooding my cylinders with gas. I hadn't checked them since and I had installed the new starter, so figured the deposits were from before the new starter was installed. I cleaned all the plugs off and that only seems to have made things slightly worse.
Went through the steps again for timing (she likes a lot of advance) and idle mix/speed.... basically everything I had done before that made things better. Nothing.
A bit of a head scratcher. I'm going to check my fuel filter and see if some sediment may have built up from my old tank. Also going to take the carb off and do all of the checks I should have done before installing it.
Anyone think of anything else I should check?
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