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Oscar had a pretty good day today.

He had his valves adjusted (only 3 needed any fiddling), finally after about 300 tries over 6 months I got his dwell angle to read 47* (Thanks Don for the help) and Don and I sorted through some wiring issues. Wooohooo I have a working horn and blinkers again. Totally my fault they stopped working too. When I installed the new old speedo I accidently mixed up some wires and I must admit that my biggest weakness is wiring. So once again... Don to the rescue. He can actually make sense out of that schematic in the Bentley manual.

I have been fearing some bottom end issues for a little while now since I keep hearing a clicking sound on run down and a shuffing rythmic metallic scrapping sound at idle. I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles a mile high that I had excessive crankshaft end play but after man handeling some of the engine tin... the sound magically dissapeared.

Seems that the clicking sound was the tin clicking against a heat riser and the shuffing sound was the back side of a peice of tin lightly ... ever so lightly touching the crankshaft pulley.

It is much smoother sounding now with no untoward scary mechanical sounds. I am feeling a great sense of relief. As a reward I took him on a nice long 70 mile cruise. Which he seemed to love.

Bonus is that my topspeed has once again climbed to the mid 80's. It has been slowly dropping into the mid 70's I suspect that had a lot to do with my lack of expierence adjusting that stupid point. In school we literally spent about 2 minutes discussing points and carbs... and about 6 months discussing fuel injection. Guess which one I'm better at

Anyhoo... Thanks for keeping up with Oscar.

Here is a video from today. I posted it in another thread as well but thought it should be here too.





Ooooo I just realized I've put 600 miles on him in the last month. Cool.