jagnew3

through the brake booster trick?

noticed noone has posted here in the centeral U.S. forum in 30 days or more! You guys all hibernating?:sleep: Wake up,:surprised spring will be here soon, and I need to find a boneyard with plenty of Z's:love:

Stephen, got the nuts today..thanks! That was very nice of you! Nice packaging too! I'll mark hose off my list. Thanks again, John

roglmao..10-4 on garage burnouts.. Had to do just one..I was feeling pretty good last night, because the hours of work were paying off, and I knew she had it in her..so I backed dead ctr of the garage..and tore one off.. no more for me..heck I'm 37..I know who pays for the tires/clutches and property damage now.. All right, I'm gonna burn off (some fuel) and sea foam it a time or two..It's cheap. I'm amazed, once again by the NGK difference. They are the only plug a sea doo will run well on...but why is that? Strange to me noone else can figure it out. Back when I raced briggs class go karts..champion was the only plug that would work..it's wierd to me. Oh and what do you think is up with the back cylinder? Maybe just stuck ring from sitting? I agree on the lifters..I rebuilt a 1963 volvo BB-70 inboard. I likes that little lifter song it sang. That was an awesome boat Hydrodyne 1600. But there is song, and then there is trying to sing..this lifter is a bit too tappy. What did you think of the pictures? Thanks for your help

Got the ngk's..runs better for sure...still an occasional burp if I let it idle too long..like it's loading up..I'm noticing that the more accesorys I turn on..the more my volt gauge seems to be drug down, and when all the accessories are off it's showing about 15 or 16...I was wondering if the volts started to drop..how would this affect the way the car is running? What even the cause of the bogging after prolonged idle, it is easily cleared by reving now. the 404's I took out (plugs) were nice and light brow, except 1..in was a bit sooty.... it was the back cylinder.I'll run compression check tonight. I'm wondering if there is a stuck ring or, if the light lifter tap is comming from that cylinder. I'll pull the ngk's tonight as I comp. test and see what they burned like. I did a burn out in the garage last night..could't resist, man does it squeel with a high pitch.. nice black marks..twins, Oh and installing the power antenna was not much fun..electrical is not my strong suit, , but it's in and works.

Okay..drained fuel, changed filter, changed plugs. The nkg's were not avail, so I picked up some autolite 404...engine runs much stronger now..still has a bit of hesitation..but much much better. It does not like to sit running at idle long...it will idle all day, but you have to give it a few "clear it out stomps" to get it going again. I did notice it got a little bog around 40mph if I was in it real hard....so that's where I'm at..got the trim on at abou 5:00am.. you thoughts?

Oh and good call on the plugs, most folks can't tell what they are, just from those pictures...nice skill, your kung fu is much better then mine.

10-40 man. I'm gonna do it today. Thansk so much for giving me some nuts...wit that didn't sound right..but you catch my drift. Did you have a look at my pictures? I still need to put on some stuff as you can see. I have it..just been playing with the engine first.

Okay here's a link to a ohoto of my $500 Z did a multitude of stuff today, found a small vac. leak to the vac advance, and can hear a whoosh Of air near the rear underside of the intake manifold. When I shut it off I hear air bleeding from the same area..but can't find it. It ran better, but still has fits of sputtering, poping and near death experiences that can be cleared but reving it up several times. when it is clearing out it belches dark, old gas/stabil/injector cleaner smelling smoke..then it's fine til it loads up. It seems to have no rhyme to it. I am wondering if some part of the fuel/injector cleaner/stabil is building up..unburnt..then causeing this. There is a picture of a plug on this site..it's what all my old ones looked like. BTW it seems the wierd stuff started about 20min after it was running with stabil..Here's the link to my Z pictures http://photobucket.com/albums/d168/jagnew3/Z%20page/?sc=1&multi=19&addtype=local&media=image&test=test

I have been working on a 77 280z the last few days..turns out something had a nest between the tail pipe and ??? everytime I rev it up it spit what looks like bird feed out. Today after a short drive..it was poping out fresh..I swear..popcorn...and it aint done blowin that stuff out yet. I figure a mouse was making a hide out or a stash. It sat for three years.

Well my luck may have run out. I drove around the block, and she had some hesitation..as I expected, but ran okay for a car on real nasty gas. when I got back to the garage she started Idleing rough, then would pop, and backfire, then rev good, then accelerate rough and pop etc..finally it died..and was very hard to restart Had to pump..though it's fuel injected..??? btw there was a big stash of seeds stashed in the exhaust, I have been blowing seeds out the tail when I rev it..today it was like popcorn..I finally got it to run okay again, just by reving, and keeping it going..but I fear the parts will need to start comming off ..Oh and my speedo magically started working today too.

stephen, scratch that..I checked my sent or replied to e-mail, and must have hit the wrong key. My bad. You should have it now. Thanks so much!