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Doc,
I know what you mean! This weather sucks; we got
the 304 pulled from the Gremlin last night. I pulled the intake/ carb, and valve
covers and it appears that the engine was run very little. Heads are almost
spotless,
looks like the only thing that touched theinside
of the engine was a small amount of water. i looked down through the valleyand
the cam looks new as well.
Im going to get it on a stand and tear it down. I
will probably end up selling off the parts etc as my first grem wont be AMC
powered; but my Jeep will stay that way.
Thanks for the Ardsley directions. Gonna do my best
to be there as I have some things for you.
Stay Dry,
Josh
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:56
AM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Rain, Rain,
Rain
It's almost like a Hurricane outside right now and going to
rain for the
next 3-4 days. My wife sure picked a bad week to take oneof
her
vacation weeks. I havent worked on the dash for 3 days as I needed
a
break from it. I spent yesterday afternoon after comeing home from
lunch
with my wife working on the manual choke conversion for the new
Hornet.
Naturally as my oldest son say's about me I can never leave
anything
alone and have to improve it. The shaft in the choke housing
supply'd in
the kit was to sloppy for me so I made 2 aluminum shims to
tighten it
up. The bracket for holding the choke cable that came with the
kit is
totally unaceptable so I am going to have to design and
fabricate
another one. I can't even use the design like the one I madefor
the
yellow Hornet 25 years ago because I have a Holley carb on that car
and
have the Carter on the new car. Thanks to Lu who sent me the old
carb
from her Gremlin I can make the bracket inside out of the rain
without
haveing to lay up the car. The weekend I catch some decent weather
i'll
give the carb a rebuild and install the manual choke.
"Doc"
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