Re: [BaadAssGremlins] cars (not amc related)

[AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx]

My newest piece of test equipment I bought a few years ago was a multi
meter only because I wanted the tac & dwell feature and the volt meter.
My old individual meters from the late 60's early 70's finally died. I
don't bother with a timing light any more. I adjust the timing on a hill
under a load. You can't adjust these old cars with a timing light to
factory spec's due to the huge difference in the quality of gasoline.
The carb I adjust by ear and the tac., points by a feeler gauge fine
tuning them with the dwell meter if necessary. The only thing modern is
the addition of an Acell Super Coil with a ballast resister to keep the
points from burning and a one wire Delco alt. With a stock points dist
the addition of the Acell Super Coil is well worth the money in
additional power you can feel and increased gas mileage. I have had one
in my yellow car for over 25 years and now one in the orange car too.
"Doc"



 
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• From: Bradley Jones <wagonmasterx5@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:31:01 -0700 (PDT)

Only $10,000 worth of equipment???  Gee, sounds like a backyard mechanic..     I love my low tech Hornet....no compukers, no catconvert, no $500 tune-ups,.....

AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

No problem Charles. I too may have been to hard on you. As others have
said 5K is an unrealistic price to be getting for anything less than a
perfect mint car. Fix it and you will get decent gas mileage. I do with
my two Hornets. As others have stated maybe the first thing you should
do is get a complete tune up and go from there. These cars are simple to
work on not like the new ones that you need to be an electrical engineer
with 10,000$ worth of test equipment.
"Doc"


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