Last night we finished up a bunch of stuff. Pressed in a new passenger side lower ball joint. When we removed the old one, we found both the upper and lower ball joint castle nuts were loose. The cotter pin was in, but the nuts were not torqued down. Also, the brake caliper mount was loose. So we fixed all that back up and checked the driver's side. Yep, all nuts loose, so we fixed those too. Fixing all the loose components, along with the new steering column, steering gear, and rag joint, the car drives like brand new. The shop sent me home with the wrong horn kit, have to go exchange that this week, then all the steering related stuff is complete.
I tore down the carburetor twice. Found a bad accelerator pump diaphram, so replaced that. Changed the power valve from a 6.5 to a 2.5. Did some mods to the Idle-Eze after talking to Barry Grant (glad they are back in business!). It idles a lot better, but still not high enough RPM. Idles about 750 right now. Bumped up the timing to 22 at idle, still need to determine the max advance, have to put a tape on the flywheel because the gauge over the flywheel only goes to 16. Took it for a test run up and down the street last night, no hesitation anywhere, no surging, no pinging (predetonation). Runs better than I've ever seen it run.
Noticed one of the high/low headlamps is out, have to replace that, and while I'm at it I'll align them. Currently the beams look like Marty Feldman.
