Freddie comes alive!

[MacDee]

I have to take credit for the dangly vent tube. My apologies

No, I remember you told me to fix it! But I never did...

[Jeff W]

No, I remember you told me to fix it! But I never did...

Yes, I was surprised it wasn't the top item on your list

[Luva65wagon]

And here I am trying to figure out how I can extract that credit from y'all.



After 9 weeks of waiting the seat foam finally arrived today!



Bending the transmission cooling lines are nearly complete. I'm trying to make them as though from the factory. Hehe.

[Luva65wagon]

Bending the transmission lines and getting them to lay where I wanted them was a pain, but 4 hours later I finally got them where they needed to be.

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Gene needed my help today welding in his new traction bars, but afterward we swung by a muffler shop I had scoped out and the guy there was very helpful and willing to make parts for me from my provided artwork, unlike the DanFast Muffler shop guys who simply were not willing to do anything without the car being there. So I've got the main exhaust mocked up with only minimal tweaks to what he made from my sketches. A couple hangers and it will do. When it's driving again I will take it back to him for tail-pipes.

This muffler shop (A1 in Everett) isn't much to look at, but he was fair and willing; and today that goes a long way.

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Gosh, only a couple things to do before Freddie does come alive again.

[Luva65wagon]

Freddie has come back to life again today. She's running pretty well, in fact. Way different than before, that is for sure. I wasn't really at the point where I was thinking I would start her today, but I couldn't stop looking for the missing radio knobs to put the original radio back in (nearly 10 hours spent hunting where I put them). I'm beginning to think I imagined their existence. So I shifted to doing a temporary hook up of the battery and tested for shorts and after finding the horn circuit is faulty somehow, I disconnected the relay and tested everything else. After certain there were no hidden gremlins I fired her up. After some timing and minor carb adjustments she just purred.

So onto finishing up my part of the exhaust. Most of any noise I don't like is from the pipes rattling on the jack stands. I'm also trying to decide whether to do an h-pipe or just leave it alone. Leaning towards adding one. And have to add a bung for a sensor.

Very pleased I have resolved the engine run condition. Hopefully all the other work pays off as well.

I shot some video, so will try to upload it later and post a link.

[Luva65wagon]

Hopefully this link works. Yeah, seems to.

https://youtu.be/sGyvB9o2Xoo

I wasn't wanting to rev it up too much because the exhaust was just barely attached and rattling pretty bad. Once I finished the test run I pulled the battery and exhaust back out and went to work on the H-pipe and cutting the O2 sensor bung out of the old exhaust pipe - and then welded it all up. That did me in for the day.

[SmithKid]

Congrats! I SERIOUSLY like the sound of six cylinders with dual exhaust!

[dhbfaster]

Man...lookin and sounding good Roger!
It was making my iPad shake.

[ew1usnr]

Dang. That engine sounds smooth. You have a winner!

[Luva65wagon]

Thanks guys, but I've listened to these videos I have and none do it justice. It sounds really good in person. So if you think what you hear sounds good, then what you will hear (those within ear-shot, anyway) will really impress you. Gary, I think, will know better than anyone if it sounds good now, or not.

[MacDee]

Gary, I think, will know better than anyone if it sounds good now, or not.

YEAH it sounds good!!

I marvel that it doesn't try to quit when you let off the gas. Did you actually get the dashpot to work, or do you think the problem was just the way-too-rich jets I had in there?

[Luva65wagon]

I really fought to determine the route to access the fast idle screw, because it was way fast. Once I did adjust that, and let it cool enough to test, I was happy with that.

Yes, the dashpot is functional and adjusted pretty close. Will know better when it's on the road whether it can use a bit more decel assist.

I'm still leaning towards the vacuum leak caused by the two misplaced screws, but it is idling way lower than I could adjust it to before. When I get the exhaust done and battery mounted, I'll start it up dead cold and see where It's at. Stay tuned.

[MacDee]

I really fought to determine the route to access the fast idle screw,...

1. Remove carburetor.
2. Turn screw.
3. Install carburetor.
4. Do cold start.
5. If you don't like the result, Return to step 1.

That was the only route I could find!

[Luva65wagon]

The right length screwdriver and the correct path (it's hard to find feeling upside-down and backwards, but the path is there nevertheless) I can adjust it without doing all of that. Also leaned the choke out a bit as it came on again fairly soon.

Now if only I could find those radio knobs!

[pbrown]

Hey! What's going on? I need my Freddie fix....