db's 66 Belvedere ***FOR SALE***

db · Post by db » Sat Aug 30, 14 12:05 am

I just spent the last few hours making a new stainless bracket for the new Mallory coil and you can't even see the damn thing

db · Post by db » Wed Sep 03, 14 1:39 pm

Oil and water now in (I ain't putting antifreeze in til it's proven watertight!)
After an Bananarama! moment, the pump is primed and lots of lovely shiny new oil is oozing out of the rocker shafts....

...and all down the sides of the motor

Currently trying to decipher the wiring so I can graft in the Mallory unit. This may take a while.

db · Post by db » Thu Oct 02, 14 10:27 pm

Still not tackled the ign but I'm replacing ALL the braided hoses due to the original crap stuff failing.

...and here's a pic from a few weeks ago when the girls were helping with the block sanding

...and I appear to have just bought a Lakewood bellhousing from Blue

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Thu Oct 02, 14 10:52 pm

Love your pics with the girls helping. I hope that you also wear a princess costume whilst working on the Belv ?
What great memories for later life

db · Post by db » Sun Oct 12, 14 4:25 pm

IT LIVES!!

Got the Belve fired up today

I'd quizzed Dave Billadeau about the ign wiring and he sussed what I'd done wrong- I'd only connected the start live and not the run live to the ign pack.

With some reminders on Basic Timing #101, I got the dissy drive lined up and the timing somewhere near. Finally it fired up and ran for half a minute. Not long enough to get a fix on the timing, loads of misfiring, but enough to cook all the oil I'd spilt on the exhaust manifolds...
Once the smoke cleared I pulled the plugs which were sooted up.
Possibly crap flushed from the lines into the carb and timing off.
Hopefully more tinkering later!

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Sun Oct 12, 14 7:24 pm

Well done Paul another goal reached.

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Sun Oct 12, 14 8:17 pm

Well done fella

When you taking me for a spin !!!!

mopar_mark · Post by **mopar_mark** » Sun Oct 12, 14 9:14 pm

Good news Paul, nothing like a freshly fired motor for more enthusiasm

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Sun Oct 12, 14 9:53 pm

Nice one mate. Onwards and upwards as they say

db · Post by db » Mon Oct 13, 14 10:35 pm

Well, lots of tinkering but bugger all progress

Every time it fired up it stopped with a BANG and occasional flames out of the carb.
I knew I had the timing close enough so suspected a fuelling problem.
Checking it over, I found the pipe to the vac gauge had a leak- result!
Tried it, no bloody different...
I rang Ade and he said either an air leak or a fuel shortage.
I stripped the carb and gave it a good clean. Found a few bits of crap in there.
Had a bloody nightmare trying to adjust up the float levels. Petrol everywhere, turned 'em this way and that and still it poured out of the sight hole. Eventually pulled the bowls and found one big chunk of rubber wedged in the damn float valve that I'd just cleaned

Put it back together, started over and whaddya know, they adjusted up lovely

I fired it up and.... no bloody different

That's it, I'm done for tonight. Grrr!!!

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Mon Oct 13, 14 11:05 pm

If you got big bits of rubber in your carb bowls you may well have little bits that have got deep inside the carb I would take it off and strip it and give it a good blow out with an airline.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Tue Oct 14, 14 12:33 am

db wrote:Well, lots of tinkering but bugger all progress

Every time it fired up it stopped with a BANG and occasional flames out of the carb.
I knew I had the timing close enough so suspected a fuelling problem.
Checking it over, I found the pipe to the vac gauge had a leak- result!
Tried it, no bloody different...
I rang Ade and he said either an air leak or a fuel shortage.
I stripped the carb and gave it a good clean. Found a few bits of crap in there.
Had a bloody nightmare trying to adjust up the float levels. Petrol everywhere, turned 'em this way and that and still it poured out of the sight hole. Eventually pulled the bowls and found one big chunk of rubber wedged in the damn float valve that I'd just cleaned
Put it back together, started over and whaddya know, they adjusted up lovely
I fired it up and.... no bloody different
That's it, I'm done for tonight. Grrr!!!

i doubt your problems lie with the carb i reckon you still have the timing out or firing order wrong get the thing set up put the dizi in correct and the leads in the correct orientation, then have someone winding it over with you gentley rotating the dizi and controling the throttle , dont have the leccy pump on just make sure the carb bowls are full first you will catch it somewhere,,,,,,,

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Tue Oct 14, 14 1:29 am

Sounds like it to me as well Paul......

MilesnMiles · Post by **MilesnMiles** » Tue Oct 14, 14 6:30 am

I'm with the timing issue as well. I remember that when lining up the dizzy drive it has to face number one piston. In fact, it tends to point to somewhere between pistons 1 &3 in practice. I'm sure Anton mentioned lining up with a specific bolt on the inlet manifold.
I have had mine in 180 degrees in the past and it was spitting and backfiring like you suggest.

db · Post by db » Tue Oct 14, 14 7:46 am

The motor will fire up but soon stops with a blast of smoke out the carb.

Cos I don't trust meself I've already marked cylinder numbers on the dissy and plug leads when I knew they were right and I've checked them a few times!
I've lined up the dissy -
Rocker cover off, tdc on cyl #1 with both valves closed.
Drive slot lined up with driver side front corner of inlet.
Drop dissy in so rotor lines up with plug lead #1.
Turn crank to 12* btdc, turn dissy so the rotor lines up with #1 again.

Me being me, I could easily have cocked-up one of these steps so I'll go through it all again.

Guy- I deep-cleaned the carb yesterday. What I should have done is run the pump with the carb feeds into a bucket to flush the pipes through first.
I may well need to clean the carb out again.

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