You jinxed yourself with the "A Daily Driver Update" and "I'm Home" blogs. It never fails, as soon as reliability is mentioned - a roadside visit is inevitable. *****, now I mentioned it too. Knock wood.
Ahh, don't fret. You can't even pull one of them there Silver somthins out of the stealership without a this or a that fallin off. Besides, you roll out and "poof" damn things worth $12,500 less.
Mucho miles on the Pertronixs for me and NO problems, the free offer sounds like a winner. Just sayin.
The 5w in your avatar owns me. That thing rules. No*****! Nice of the pertronix folks for sure, but I'm done with electronics... GMC Bubba to the rescue. More later...
Sorry to hear you broke Ryan. Cool it was close to home. Going with points in the Victoria also...Bubba distributor and received it today.
over 100,000 miles on the Chevy and only two things failed to keep the 250 six running....Pertronix (my fault,left the key on) and an MSD coil (Now has a oil filled Delco off the 56 IHC in back yard)......
Sorry it layed down on you but it still looks awesome sitting on the side of the road....love that car!!
OK, is it just me that finds humour in the fact that the one guy in America that 40,000+ car guys would give their left nut to rescue for the braggin' rights alone, is walking down the road????? OK, OK, I've been told I'm weird before........................................
Funny you should mention that... I'm building an office right now and I owe my contractor some money. I told him he could come pick up a check so long as he brought a tow rope. Worked like a charm after I figured out the dizzy was bad... So, I only walked about 2 miles if that. All that said, the tow rope action was some scary*****. I just knew I was gonna pile the ole '39 into the back of his truck.
I'm just using a standard dizzy in the 401 nail going into my '35. I'm a firm believer that if I can't fix it myself on the side of a road with a tester and a point file, I don't want it.
Hey Ryan The walk is good for the soul! It is funny how often when old cars are towed into the shop, it is a new part that broke, not the old 50 year old parts still on the car. Wil
Ya hear it all the time...running when parked! Now we KNOW that it's*********! Glad you got it figured out quickly, Ryan!
I've even had problems with points Mallory distributors, seems like they just eat them up. I have two now with pertronix conversions and I'm a points fan.
Two miles to the shop? Could'a been 200 back from Oklahoma! It's just a little test from the old car Gods - sortin' out the posers ya know.
This same***** happened to me this morning, walked home and got the new pertronics conversion, installed it on the side of the road now it runs perfect, but man are these things slow. Now I know why I hate flatheads it is like stepping back in time. It might be time for an engine swap !!!!
glad yer home safe towing with a chain -rope should be mandatory part part of drivers ed. try it in the snow ....
Everytime Ive had to hike its been in flip flops coz I was just going out for a quick errand and wanted to take the Edsel. Lesson learned : dont wear flip flops. Glad it was something simple like a dizzy. And I agree, even with the hood up and broken down looks good. Edit --- even broken down on the side of the road Ryan still takes better pictures than I do.
So I'm riding in my '70 GTO Judge with a potential buyer driving and the distributer quits. The guy then says " it's OK I was just looking at for my brother anyway."
So is it back on the road? Ya gotta love the old technology, or lack thereof. Reminds me how little some mechanics nowdays know about old cars. I stopped in at a local repair shop a couple weeks ago, driving the 37 Buick, to ask if I could collect their used anti-freeze to use in my shop radiant heating system. It was one of the first hot days this spring, and I'd already driven the old Buick about 20 miles, so there was some heat under that long black hood. After I talked to the boss, I jumped back into the car and it wouldn't fire, so I popped the hood to have a look. I could see fuel percolating in the fuel pump sediment bowl (vapor locked), so figured I'd just leave the hood sides up for a few minutes and let things cool. One of the young bucks in the shop had heard the old six volt starter grind, and brought out a booster box. I said I didn't want to hook it up as it was a 12-volt booster. He asked why not, and I told him that it might damage my gauges. "Why, is this a 24-volt system?" I told him it was 6-volt. I don't think he'd ever seen one before. I then told him that it was vapor locked, and would start after it cooled off for a few minutes. "Vapor lock?" So I showed him the gas boiling in the sediment bowl, and explained what vapor lock was, how it prevented the fuel pump from working properly, etc. After about 10 minutes, the gas was no longer percolating, so I spun it over a few times and it started right up. The now wiser young fella grabbed his booster box and headed back to the shop. I was OK with passing on a little bit of old-school info to the kid, but was really kinda surprised that he'd never heard of vapor lock before. I don't imagine there's a code on the scanner for that........
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