Zed Head

Maybe you've discovered a built-in remote starter switch. Who wants to explore this further?

Here is standard practice. If you do this without disconnecting the plug you might be backfeeding the ignition switch or some odd thing. Maybe you had the key On whereas before the key was off.

Describe this "jumping" procedure. I don't think that that's standard practice. Sounds like you're causing a dead short across a plug that expects a load.

The head of the USA COVID-19 task force watches millions of dollars shoot in to space. I can't even think of a snarky comment to add here...

Ah, nostalgia... p.s. look at that little kid about to get enveloped in carcinogenic smoke. Thanks Dad, that was neat... I grew up in a smoking family with pre-converter cars in the driveway. Everybody smoked, it was a deep lung hack-fest every morning when the relatives got together for the holidays. Now, I can smell a cigarette from a block away and a pre-cat car from a mile behind. It's incredible how we don't realize how bad things are until they're gone.

I think that the thermostat issue was in reference to the carburetor heating line, the one that runs to/from the thermostat housing. We had a whole discussion about that a short while ago.

That's the typical way to do it. As you said when the heater valve is closed those ports are blocked. The thread size in the head is the same as the thread size of the block drain plug, under the manifolds. That tells you very little unless you have a spare block.

Not much confidence in immunity. Boris Johnson had the virus but is isolating anyway after being in the presence of a COVID-positive person. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/15/boris-johnson-told-to-self-isolate-after-coronavirus-contact

ODB? Ol' Dirty Bastard? Wu Tang. I think OBD-I uses flashing lights on the ECU. Watch and count. Anyway, hope it was just an odd occurrence.

I finally caught one in the act. I don't think I rolled my cursor over it it just started autoplaying. It was one of those ads that pops up in the middle of a paragraph. It started playing when I was way down at the bottom of the thread but I scrolled up to the top until I saw it. I have no interest in Edward Jones products at all.

But why? I haven't looked through the Doc yet. I wonder if it's an OBD-1 or -II system. Trouble codes.

I'm starting to think that what's really happening, overall, is that the "troll" culture is taking over. In the old days, people listened to each other because there were repercussions if they didn't. You might get eaten by a bear or catch a nasty disease. Now everyone has the internet to feed them information. We don't need "other people" anymore to think we know what's going on, just the internet and mainstream media, which is controlled by big money. Tromp 2020 in Australia. Now that's an expensive "owning the libs" but what other purpose would it have? Crazy stuff...

It would be interesting to see more about that system in general. Is it from an 80's GM car? Is it heavily modified? I don't know a lot about TBI, except from exploring injector styles in the wrecking yard and digging in to an occasional GM TBI system. Only the mechanicals though, no electronics.

Here's a followup with more detail about Australia. It's weird that a country that has the image as more primitive and "manly" and independent thinking (Crocodile Dundee and all that), would have a citizenry that would listen to their rational leaders rational requests, and solve the problem. It makes us look far worse since we've had the whole summer, the best environment, to knock it back. We need a 24 hour per day Australia channel so we can all learn. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/packed-crowds-and-euphoric-leaders-australia-revels-in-covid-free-days

You can swap the gear and shaft over easily. Push out the small roll pin and the gear/shaft will side right out. It takes some finagling to get the pin out and in but it's not too hard.

1970 Fembot auditions, I think...

How about something got jarred when you removed the distributor cap? The reluctor wheel or the magnet or stator. Those ZX distributors are kind of fragile when they get older. There were some good sparks there, so the make-break circuit seems to work. Looks like a trigger problem.

Vacuum leak? Have you tried shooting the fluid through a plug hole? Where are you squirting the fluid? I don't now the SU TB conversion, just curious. Engine ground strap? Other grounds? The invisible electrical problem...

Are the throttle blades on the SU's opening? How about a problem with the trigger signal to the GM ECU? Or the injectors stuck open?

I've mentioned this before in other posts. I damaged my control module once by leaving two spark plugs disconnected after doing some work and restarting the engine. After I did that the engine wouldn't start normally even though it showed spark. It started with starter fluid only. This was on a hot engine, I never tried when it was cold, I fixed it right away. It had spark but the spark was weak and orange even though I had a GM HEI module. Installing a new module solved the problem. And, here's another odd one - try lifting the distributor cap up an MM or so. Who knows? He had a ZX distributor too.

That's a cool tool. I had clicking on my clutch pedal, and I've read about others having it also. Every clutch release, click, click, click. You can see the groove by eye, so you'll know if it's going.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-how-an-australian-state-beat-its-second-wave-of-covid-19/ By late summer you meant late winter in Australia right? August is mid-winter. I've wondered about migrating south. "By Aug. 2, when Victoria widened the lockdowns to the rest of the state, Melburnians had already been living under stay-at-home orders since early July."

Any chance the coolant temperature sensor is disconnected? Maybe for the pictures or a bump?

Make sure to measure the rod distance of the old one before throwing it away or switching the rod. That way you won't have to do the trial and error approach. Match the distance and you should be golden. Also, while you're under the dash at the pedal you might want to change the clevis pin. They get grooved and reduce throw plus they start to click. Very annoying.