Re: [T2] 78 fi or carb...it lives!

["Dave C. Bolen" <dbolen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Thanks! I still need to get the gas tank opened up to a useable state
though.  I am currently running out of a 2.5 gal gas can....hard to drive
around with that strapped on the side of the bus<grin>.

Cheers, dave



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"I'm more interested in getting it right, than being right"....dave


On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, H Steven Dolan wrote:

> Dave,
> 
> Congratulations!  Good job!
> 
> For the hydraulic lifters... If it has been more than a week since the
> engine last ran, I would say just take it out and drive it around for a
> while, locally, on surface streets, at low speeds, for like 1/2 hour.  If
> you have any that have not pumped up after that amount of time, they are
> dead and should be replaced.  My theory on this is that a collapsed lifter
> is allowing way too much clearance and too much clearance does not damage
> an engine (in 1/2 hour) despite how it sounds.  It is too *little*
> clearance that will damage an engine. (I await the various flames I will
> soon be receiving :-)
> 
> On the too rich problem when you start it, again, let it warm up.  My '80
> stinks of gas when cold, but is just fine once it warms up.  I think this
> is "normal", tho I don't like it much.
> 
>                            Steve Dolan
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