Coronado Trail WhupppPee Run - Page 8

Varmit · #1 (**permalink**) 10-12-2015, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by DWRAT

Hey Benny, that was me.
We also talked about you setting up a run for us AZ folk in your neck of the woods.
I would like to see if there is any interest other then myself for doing this.
Dan

Let me know think you guys would love our twisties

skullandbones · #2 (**permalink**) 10-05-2015, 02:22 PM

I got my car home safe as well as pretty smoothly considering the distance and logistics. The drug enforcement/sheriff deputy was very nice to stay as long as he did. We talked football and such. He had to leave for a call in the valley but called back three times to make sure the tow truck guy found me. It was the same guy and his son who picked up Karl's car last year. Which is funny because he was a back up call because the first one broke down before he got to me. We had some great conversation. He is a racer and hot rod guy. My son met me at Thatcher at the Taco Bell. There must have been twenty people stopping by to look and ask questions about the roadster. If I get lonely, I know where to go to get some attention!

The car is in the garage. I may have found the root cause of the electrical problem. I had the pos and neg battery cables running parallel and touching. That probably was not best practice so that will be changed. I think the real cause was me not getting the thumb screw on the positive terminal real tight. It may have created a cascade effect of heat/resistance along the cables especially since they were laying side by side. Never had a problem before but this was aggrevated I guess. So I will change the pos to a welding cable for less resistance and run them far apart (left and right side of trans tunnel). I checked all the wiring and the cut off switch was not bad (volt meter). So as the dominos fell along the way, I guess the computer overheated to the point it just shut itself off. It has a breaker as well. It wouldn't have been safe to operate it after the cables were overheated anyway. So I was not fixing that problem on the side of the road even if I had a jack. If my ECC-IV PCM fried itself, I don't care as I will be replacing it anyway with a new tunable one. I'm just glad I didn't fry my harness during the overheating.

Glad you guys had a good time on the rest of the run. I will try again next year. Special thanks to Scotty and Bennie for stopping for us and rescuing Karl. I think he probably would have cried if he had to back track two years in a row.

See you later,

WEK.

Danr55 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-05-2015, 08:04 PM

Orange with a truck motor maybe, but prettier than the cute little motor you have..

DWRAT · #4 (**permalink**) 10-11-2015, 09:50 PM

Finally filled up tonight, I got 21.1 mpg from the hotel to home.
I'm very happy with that.

When's the next run???

Karl, did you ever get her running?

Karl Bebout · #5 (**permalink**) 10-12-2015, 08:53 AM

Ratti Tat Tat, You got much better mileage than my teeny engine, except, of course, lately, it hasn't been using much gas at all. I've just got too many carburetors to get good mileage.
Not running yet. Kinda lost incentive after not getting to drive the Trail. Have been working on it but have had trials and tribulations. The last being broken water pump bolt, but at least I did get lucky and it left a stub sticking through the front cover that I was able to vise grip out. Ever try to find a 5/16 x 18, 6" socket head bolt? Even Copper State didn't have one. Ordered a couple from McMaster Carr, and then yesterday, Mesa Mike brought two of them over. Go figure. Still have to mount the water pump, alternator, distributor, plugs and valve covers. With the way my luck has been going, I certainly don't expect it to fire right off. I do have the timing gear marks aligned and the advance marked but since the engine has the wrong front cover/water pump combination, there's no way to see a timing mark. FoMoCo JOYS!

Car Nut · #6 (**permalink**) 10-12-2015, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Karl Bebout

Ratti Tat Tat, You got much better mileage than my teeny engine, except, of course, lately, it hasn't been using much gas at all. I've just got too many carburetors to get good mileage.
Not running yet. Kinda lost incentive after not getting to drive the Trail. Have been working on it but have had trials and tribulations. The last being broken water pump bolt, but at least I did get lucky and it left a stub sticking through the front cover that I was able to vise grip out. Ever try to find a 5/16 x 18, 6" socket head bolt? Even Copper State didn't have one. Ordered a couple from McMaster Carr, and then yesterday, Mesa Mike brought two of them over. Go figure. Still have to mount the water pump, alternator, distributor, plugs and valve covers. With the way my luck has been going, I certainly don't expect it to fire right off. I do have the timing gear marks aligned and the advance marked but since the engine has the wrong front cover/water pump combination, there's no way to see a timing mark. FoMoCo JOYS!

Now would be a great time to install a new timing pointer since you should know where exact TDC is now. Tavia and several other companies make them.

Bob Broberg SPF667 460BB · #7 (**permalink**) 10-12-2015, 06:06 PM

Benny, That was Dan Ratti. His speedometer broke on the way home Sunday but he has already fixed it.
Thanks anyway for your generous offer.
My trip odometer is broken, does yours have one?
AZ Bob

Varmit · #8 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob Broberg SPF667 460BB

Benny, That was Dan Ratti. His speedometer broke on the way home Sunday but he has already fixed it.
Thanks anyway for your generous offer.
My trip odometer is broken, does yours have one?
AZ Bob

I've sent it to Dan. Maybe he can help you out

Scotchman · #9 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 03:36 PM

Benny,
Thanks for the caps you sent. They look great, no more wipers ! I'm interested in the run over in your neck of the woods, just not sure of the timing yet. No truck to pull my trailer either, so I'd have to drive over and back.

DWRAT · #10 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Scotchman

so I'd have to drive over and back.

Maybe we can get several of us and make the run in our cars only.

I'm in if others will join.

DWRAT · #11 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Varmit

I've sent it to Dan. Maybe he can help you out

Bob,
I can fix yours, it's a $54.00 part though.(Cobra Valley)
No labor charge of course.

You can pull the speedo and give it to me
or
Drop your whole car off at my house and I will do everything for you.
Just make sure all 3 fuel tanks are full.

Karl Bebout · #12 (**permalink**) 10-12-2015, 07:38 PM

Nut-ski, I'm working of fashioning a pointer that I think I'll be able to see, under the Alternator. I already have an advance knob timing light, so I should be able to just have a line on the balancer lined up with the pointer to be able to determine my total advance, without having to be concerned with degree marks on the balancer. I'd like things better if I could actually a mark rather than just timing by ear. I have no way of measuring vacuum with no plenum chamber under my Webers.

Car Nut · #13 (**permalink**) 10-17-2015, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Karl Bebout

Nut-ski, I'm working of fashioning a pointer that I think I'll be able to see, under the Alternator. I already have an advance knob timing light, so I should be able to just have a line on the balancer lined up with the pointer to be able to determine my total advance, without having to be concerned with degree marks on the balancer. I'd like things better if I could actually a mark rather than just timing by ear. I have no way of measuring vacuum with no plenum chamber under my Webers.

I have had great success with timing tape applied to the damper. It is easy to see with a timing light and has plenty of degree marks for checking valve timing and other stuff. Now would also be a good timing to install it.

Scotchman · #14 (**permalink**) 10-17-2015, 09:18 AM

RattiBoy,
I'm committed to going duning that weekend, but it may fall through. Too bad we don't have a 2 car trailer.

DWRAT · #15 (**permalink**) 10-17-2015, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Scotchman

RattiBoy,
I'm committed to going duning that weekend, but it may fall through. Too bad we don't have a 2 car trailer.

Benny offered up 2 rooms so I will take the second room and you take the first room.
If others want to join we can switch to a close by la quantia.
My guess is unless Danr commits to go no others will join.

Danr55 · #16 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 07:17 AM

What's the route look like? Is it all freeway driving or are you going to run through the mountains?

Karl Bebout · #17 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 08:44 AM

"What's the route look like? Is it all freeway driving or are you going to run through the mountains"

Well Danr, knowing Bennie's joy of "twisty curvies" and even his mention of their "twisty curvy" runs, back a few entries, I sorta doubt it would be a freeway run.

Too Easy.

Varmit · #18 (**permalink**) 10-13-2015, 10:06 AM

twisties gentlemen mountain and flats Well end up a Hell's Kitchen on the Ortega Highway (mountain twisties) for lunch, then back

Danr55 · #19 (**permalink**) 10-17-2015, 03:51 PM

Too close.to my elk hunt guys. Sorry.