Haha, our electrical issues were so severe that my son cut the entire wiring harness out of the car one morning and we rebuilt it using a wire diagram. It was a lot of work, but now we know every inch of wiring in the car, it is well organized and when I looked at what he took out, I'm amazed that it hadn't caught on fire from all the splits and frays. I would never have done it, but I'm glad he forced me to. Nothing like working on a car with a 15 year old when he knows it is "his car" when it's done.
JohnHSpider wrote:Nothing like working on a car with a 15 year old when he knows it is "his car" when it's done.
Yep, I totally understand, as the '69 Fiat that I have today was a similar situation. Maintain the family cars (Fiat or not), and the '69 was mine when I went off to college. Of course, to replace his lost masculinity (my mother's words), my father then went out and bought a '78 Fiat to compensate.... That car is now somewhere in Colorado as I understand it.
That's fun, and I'm sure you and your dad have some great memories of maintaining the vehicles. My driveway growing up was mostly Ford trucks and Chevy cars until we kids became teenagers. Then there were Nissan (280Z, 300ZX, 240Z), Mazda (B2200), Toyota (Celica), Honda (Accord and a CB900 Custom), Jeep (US Mail bought from the Post Office), and others (MGB, full size Bronco). I learned to work on them all, and my brothers usually ended the vehicle's life in an accident of some kind.
The Fiat has been the most simplistic and easy to work on car that I've encountered. The hardest thing is the size. I'm forever bent over or trying to cram my fat old man body under the dash to fix something.
Finally got everything sorted out.
Ignition wires replaced, timing adjusted, idle and mixture corrected.
Even put in New plugs.
What a difference the new carb and manifold make!
Engine sounds like it's breathing easier and there's near instant response to the accelerator.
And it doesn't overheat!
Quite happy with the change even though it took nearly a year to get to it.
Now have a bunch of leftover parts to get rid of if any are wanted.
(air cleaner housing, rubber snorkel, dual plane manifold, ADHA carb, EGR valve, thermovalve manifold from intake manifold, all the color codes plastic vacuum lines)
PaulC wrote:Finally got everything sorted out.
Ignition wires replaced, timing adjusted, idle and mixture corrected.
Even put in New plugs.
What a difference the new carb and manifold make!
Engine sounds like it's breathing easier and there's near instant response to the accelerator.
And it doesn't overheat!
Quite happy with the change even though it took nearly a year to get to it.
Now have a bunch of leftover parts to get rid of if any are wanted.
(air cleaner housing, rubber snorkel, dual plane manifold, ADHA carb, EGR valve, thermovalve manifold from intake manifold, all the color codes plastic vacuum lines)
Great, glad to hear it.
Yes, I may be interested in some of the parts. Chief among them the pipe that goes from the egr valve to the intake manifold?
Only pipe I've seen is from exhaust manifold to the block, which is still in place.
I just blocked off the unused opening in the head that the shorter intake manifold didn't cover.
