I got it running last night…….
On Sunday, I bought a couple of cheap batteries for it, threw them in, poured a hair of gas in the cab and tried to fire it off. Got nothing and I had run out of light.
Monday night, I came home and pulled a plug wire to see if I had spark. Nothing. Started working my way back to the distributor. The primary lead wire (#12) had no juice at the distributor, but about that time, I ran out of light again.
Last night, I started working my way back from the switch to the distributor. Switch had 24V at the supply side, turned it on and it had power on both poles. Followed #12 from the switch to a bad connection. Fixed connection, went back to distributor, checked for power, bingo.
I didn't bother pouring any more gas down the carb, I figured I'd just try it out as is. I have bypassed the fuel tank with a small 2 gallon can because the gas tank is nothing but varnish.
I hopped in it, armed the ignition circuit, hit the foot start and…….nothing.
So I hop out and grab a spark plug wire tester (plugs in between a plug and wire and lights up) and kind of jerry rigged it in to see if I had fire at the plugs.
But since I was alone, I had to leave my left foot on the ground and wiggle my right foot waaay under the dash to start it. So with my neck strained to see the tester, I hit the switch and sure enough, the darned thing starts!
So I shut it off, removed the tester, screwed the plug wire back on, set up the camera for you jokers and let it rip. In the video posted below, it's on high idle from the choke. It quit when I ran it out of gas……..
It has a mild miss in it (audible in the video), I think it has a fouled plug. But it has 40 lbs of oil pressure, all the gauges work, the generator charges and it has no leaks.
More progress later this week, stay tuned
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3795909545038010180
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