Im sure all you HAMBrs have had this happen before . You go to do something that seems quite simple and the next thing you know you have a whole damn can of worms opened and spilled all over the garage. What seemed to be a simple misfire has led me down the proverbial never ending engine circus of -Holy Crap thats F'd up too!!!. And that . And that. And in that situation you know what the right thing to do is or you WILL be doing it later and itll just cost you more. My simple plan of getting the 51 running smooth has gone off the rails. Freakin ants in my rustyass distributor just to give you some insight. Im sure all of you can share this fate first hand. Anyon ever found anything else weird like that in a project build? Just curious. As for me....... I just keep tellin the damn thing to bring it on...Thanks for letting me get that out there.
Dude! As soon as I heard about your misfire I was gonna tell you to check for ants in your distributor. It's usually either that or a bullfrog jammed in an intake runner. Sorry I forgot to mention those two obvious solutions. I just figured you'd know to check for ants and bullfrogs first. Seriously, ants in the distributor?
Ants in the distributor. Pulled it apart and Im like what the hell? I guess theres always something new to discover in the world of rodding. The condition it was all in Im surprised the thing ever fired at all. I figure Ill check the radiator for the bullfrogs.........
better be careful, those sound like "brazilian high voltage ants" very deadly and need to be handled by a professional only.
Ants are actuaaly seem to be very attracted to electricity. Seems that only when you have a traditional type switching mechanism, not solid state. Anybody that lives in the country and has a water well and pumphouse knows what I'm talking about. They always seem to pile up enough dead ones to kill contact late at night when your in the shower. They also seem to love many outdoor AC unit switches and will clog them as well.
We've got a lot of home AC units going down around here due to earwigs getting into the contacts. Just bigger, uglier ants.
killer puns. makes the whole ant thing worthwhile......... I knew I could count on HAMBrs to come through.
I found a dead rat under my intake manifold once. does that count? I stripped the engine (that was in storage) and it was spotless. didnt even need to change the bearings.
I started the fork lift in the shop at school one day i had to use eather to get it going. it blew out a huge fireball, it turned out to be , at the time; a live squirrle
Never had weevils in the valves, but I had some in the carb once. They were.....wait for it.....bowl weevils.
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