The continuing saga of trying to bring this thing back to life

[Brian K. Ullrich]

Stay with it, man. Like you, I raised mine from the dead after 4 years in an Oklahoma field. Lots of trials and tribulations, bit she ran like a scalded dog once I got her sorted out. 

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On Nov 17, 2011, at 16:37, "Jay Kempf" <jkempf at madriver.com> wrote:

> Well, 
> 
> Today was the day to try to get everything up and running. First thing we
> ran into was not being able to get the emergency brake cables to tension
> properly. The cables are fine, the lever in the car is fine, the levers at
> the calipers are moving but the brake handle does not lock the brakes down.
> The car hasn't driven yet so I am assuming that I have to bed the calipers,
> rotors, pads in to a little driving to drive the ratcheting mechanism
> forward. All else bled and came up fine, Removed the upper cover enough to
> see the timing belt and watched through a few rotations of the belt rotating
> the crank with a wrench and all looked well. Pulled the fuel pump relay and
> turned it over and all sounded ok and I got 2 bar just on cranking. Battery
> stayed up well even if it was just brought back after 5 years. Jumpered the
> relay and heard the pump. So we tried to start it. Nothing. Checked a plug,
> good spark even if it was a bit dirty. I'll clean them this week. Traced
> back to the pump and it wasn't running anymore. Checked voltage at the back
> in the harness and all fine. Jumpered at the connector on the tank and
> nothing. Ordering a new pump. I just bench tested the thing when I had it
> out and it ran then. Just jumpered it today and we swore we heard it run
> three times. Now nothing. Other than that we have no leakage at the rack,
> fuel lines, hydraulic lines, brake lines, coolant, all dry underneath. All
> systems seem to be working with what we could check thus far. 
> 
> Fortunately parts for these things have come down in the last bunch of
> years. So I think if I get a pump it will just run. Maybe another week
> waiting for parts and one more hour of sucking fuel fumes and I'll be there.
> I was worried about the clutch but it feels smooth and solid so far. The
> final test will be when we get to drive it. It is easy to be disappointed
> that we couldn't get it to run today but I look at the last bunch of weeks
> and how far this thing has come from the grips of being a basket case with a
> little TLC and I am encouraged. Can't wait to add it back into the fleet. 
> 
> 
> 
> jfk
> 
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