No.....and it was ****ed let me tell you....I had no idea! Very lucky it had an oil leak. Total incompetence by the previous mechanic who rebuilt it.
Wow, lucky. What was the big stuff up? They look like HC pistons. That should work well with the EFI. Going a little hotter on the cams?
It already had HC pistons. I'm actually going away from the hotter cams and putting in a set of euro cams like I had on my GT4. I'll tell you all about the stuff ups next time we talk. Very unimpressed
Hi Martin, I didn't know it was famous all over the world! But no...lol....I know who the mechanic was, but I wasn't the client.
Hi Peter, what a pity But without kidding. I would be interested in details too. Best from Germany Martin
Took my 308 and wife to Paso Robles California for lunch. On the way back, I just went over 17,000 miles 10 miles from home. I set the trip odometer to zero when I received my 308 on December 2017. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Got a personal present from my usual Rodent Control Officer ten days ago: a one pound rat...I guess the message is: "this Rodent Control business is serious, it has to be entrusted to professionals". Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Absolutely essential, if there are rodents out there. I have a control officer crew ;-) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I had to have mine flatbedded out to the storage facility because of the icy roads. Got some cool pictures though. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Of course that's the reflection of the trailer on the side in the last picture, there's no scratches.
Drove to Cambria, California and heard some noise from the passenger side radiator fan. When I got home, I removed the grill, front bumper and both fans. I took apart the driver side fan and then the passenger side fan. In the past someone sprayed dry lubricant into the rear of the passenger fan to lubricate it. It is the motor with the dark colored coil wire. It was a mistake. You need to use specific oil (Zoom turbine oil - $4 at Ace Hardware store) for electric motors on the upper and lower bushings and not grease or dry lubricant. Cleaned the bushing areas, brushes are good, lubed the bushings, and re-assembled the motors. Tested the motors with fan blades installed and both sound great. Both are original fans based on date codes. I also received lower door weather stripping purchased from Mr. Fiat. Matches the original and will be installing in the next month. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The car has had a tendency to "wander" for a few months now, especially in the 30-50mph range - and felt like I was driving a heavy old limousine made by Oldsmobile in 1982. I replaced the front wheel bearings a few months ago, but this didn't solve the problem. After more diag of the front suspension, decided there were additional issues that needed to be addressed. Finally finished the front-end rebuilding last night. - All 8 control arm bushings all replaced with new poly bushings. (thanks Jim!) - All 4 ball joints replaced. - Lower steering shaft removed and cleaned up. Replaced the shaft bushing at the firewall (thanks Martin!). - 8 Rubber bushings on the steering rack mount clamps replaced. - Discovered steering rack wasn't quite mounted correctly. Fabricated some shims for the mounting clamps, rack is now 100% solid and square with the frame. - Steering wheel had a bit too much play; removed 2/4 shims from the steering box to tighten the preload. Steering wheel angle also tweaked a bit. And "while I was in there" - - The 2 spare liners were previously removed so that I could get good access to everything under the hood. Liners have been repainted (looks so much nicer now), and now held in place with screws instead of rivets. (Wouldn't make a Concours judge happy, but it's 1000% better from a tech standpoint) - Heater hoses were removed and soaked a couple days in Simple Green. Still have some staining on them, but at least they're clean. And smell nice. I'd replace them with pretty new hoses if they weren't unseen nearly all of their life. It's made a marked difference in how the car behaves... I'm finally experiencing that "go cart on a track" feeling. Hoping to do an alignment on Monday morning, and spend some time on some back roads in the cool air.
Fired up my '76 after it has the stock points replaced with a Crane optical pickup in the S127 single distributor. Had been sitting a couple days but fired with about 1 sec of cranking and now it revs so perfectly from idle to wherever. No hesitation, no hiccups, just smooth, smooth, smooth!
New steel cam sprockets too as the gates had come loose on two of them and all four had play on the cam end. Bad design. Why have an optical pickup accurate to 1 degree and cam pulleys that wiggle 2 or 3 degrees? No more nonesense!
The radio in my '87 GTS would not come on yesterday when I drove the car. Turned out the removable front that has the controls was not making a good connection with the remainder of the radio. Cleaned 20 or so contacts and applied Stabilant 22A to them and now have a working radio.
That's going to make a big difference to the enjoyment you derive from your car, speaking from experience
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Either way, switching from points to an optical trigger was like night and day different. The car responds like a DFI car now. I did the cam pulleys because the plastic ones suck and had started to break and were loose on the cam ends. So the peace of mind of not worrying about a plastic cam pulley crapping the bed on a long hard drive will certainly add to my joy. The 1-3 degrees part I'm sure is unnoticeable...of course.
