Recent content by Aviatur

Just a quick thought here. Check the ground side of the complete circuit. Good ground from battry to engine block, and to the chassis?

Our retired school principle was in the Normandy invasion, and also fought in the battle of the bulge. He came and talked to our aviation group one time about his experiences. Also brought along his "war treasures", and knife, fork and spoon with the German ******** that he said was gotten when...

I don't remember what Plug number is. They are A C plugs gapped to .025.

When I had the dist. out I checked the bushings. Also cleaned and polished the shaft and cleaned out the oil groove for bottom bushing oiling. Everything was nice and tight. No play in either bushing. Ran it again last night with a vacuum gauge and while driving, when it is missing it is a...

Checked primary wire in dist. when I had it completely apart. Wire had been replaced at one time, and looks like new.

We changed the plug wires and dist. cap with new ones. Still no change.....mid range missing. Tonight we are going to hook up a vacuum gauge into the passenger compartment and see what the gauge tells us while it is missing.

Here are pics of the 50 that I am working on.

I will doing more on it this weekend and will keep the groupl updated as to what I find. Thanks.

Ggmac, the points were set to .015 but will make sure they didn't slip or change. I have an accurate McQuay Norris vacuum gauge about as old as the flathead. I will hook it up to the manifold vacuum and check after work. Also, I really like your idea of the water mist!!! I will be trying that...

FLatheadmurre, good ideas, but I took the carb off and removed the nozzle clusters. Using a very small dental pick I was able to run through all of the ports and then follow up with spray carb cleaner. Checked to see that I had all 4 gaskets in place when putting it back together. Timing is spot...

Just another thought here.... going to dual exhaust with glasspacks would the carb need to be jetted down a little bit or wouldn't it make much difference? Still have stock manifolds on it.

We are going to try a new set of wires next. About the only thing we have not tried. Bad wires usually show up under a load. As limited as my flathead experience is, I do know that they defy common sense at times...LOL

When driving, as long as you are going uphill or against a wind it is fine. When you just drive on flat ground with no headwind and neither slow up or speed up is when the miss occurs.

We started using MMO as soon as he got the car. Also ran one can of SeaFoam through it as well. The miss is when driving it of when just revving it up, and I am sure that is has solid wires. Ran it at night and checked for any sparking and could not find any.

Hey fellas, this one has me stumped. Stock flathead with dual exhaust, holley 94, load-o-matic dist. New fuel tank, flex line, rebuilt fuel pump and carb with 7.5pv and #51 jets, rebuilt dist with new vacuum diaphragm, points, condenser, cap, rotor. Engine idles and starts perfect, great...