Archive for April, 2006
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
A 7 Passes State Inspection
The impossible has happened! The Spider has passed the North Carolina State Safety and Emissions Inspection!
And just to prove this miracle to the masses, I snapped a pic of it.
One more Triumph saved from the crusher.
And, the car was running in the rain! Another myth dispelled.
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Hat Tip To Trent
Big hat tip to Trent at Pink Is The New Blog for linking to Town Called Dobson this morning. The traffic is insane.
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
I went a did it again!
Yes, we are on blog software install number 4. The last system I was using was Nuke and the code was just overly polluted and damn near unusable when compared to the silkiness of WordPress.
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Next Step; state safety inspection
I talked to a few safety inspectors here in North Carolina about the issues surrounding restoring a TR7 and its smog system. A lot of my worries were put to rest because the car is over the 25 year limit on smog standards. Most of their real concerns are that the brakes work, lights work […]
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Firing Order Is Important!
So I am looking and debugging and thinking and wondering why the Hell this thing won’t start. well, it turns out the previous owner switched the firing order completely wrong. I am surprised the car could run at all. My guess is the extreme timing changes was made by the previous owner the make up […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
It lives. IT LIVES!!!!
Today was a good day.
I got the car to start today and all was well with the world. I drove it around a bit and but alas the car was running rough. No torque and a huge lack of power. Need to work on that.
Some of the things I thought were problems weren’t. The headlamps […]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Closer and closer…
Yesterday, I sprayed copious amounts of carb cleaner into the ZS’s and went to bed.
This morning, the car started and spluttered and ran for a few seconds. The good thing about this is that gas vapor can be seen coming out of the carb after the motor stops turning. This means that the fuel is […]
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Great progress has been made!
It was a long and rainy winter and today was the first chance I had to get back to the Spider.
The new fuel pump was replaced and it worked great. I will need to replace the fuel line going into the pump however, and while I am at it, a fuel filter is on the […]
