Engine trouble

[John ED Renstrom]

none what so ever. you going to be taking the head off now. no lets say that all the bolts will come out of the manifold and you'll find another on on the floor of your garage. ben a while since I have see a cast iron piece broken. so pet it was cracked and about ready to fall off. you get this car to New York you got my vote for the hard luck award right now.

[Earle W Whitcher]

Before you go tearing stuff apart, remember that when you hear hoof galloping sounds, it is usually horses, not zebras. In other words check all the simple stuff first. Didn't you mention new plugs and wires? Check them to be sure you didn't get a bum one out of the box. The quality control on these items is not what it used to be. Since you changed both if you find a bad cylinder doing this check, you will then have to determine if it is plug or wire. I have seen more bad plugs than wires, but both are subject to QC problems.

[Russ Austin]

If the choke tube is not cracked, you dont need to plug the choke tube holes. Its just a warm air passage to the choke assembly.

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

I removed the choke tube alltogether. There will be an electric choke installed on my new carburator.

[Paul Steinberg]

If the carburetor is properly set, and the choke tube isn't clogged, it actually is better than an electric choke in my opinion. The cars operated properly for years with mechanical chokes. The key to getting an old car to function as originally designed is to carefully set everything to the original factory specifications and make sure that there are no worn out parts.

[Bill Leverett]

Hi Jean-Marc. Sorry to hear of your troubles. Just think how much more you are finding out about your '67 though. Really...what else would you be doing anyways...working on the '69?

Hope your summer is going well.

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

Originally Posted by Bill Leverett

Hi Jean-Marc. Sorry to hear of your troubles. Just think how much more you are finding out about your '67 though. Really...what else would you be doing anyways...working on the '69?

Hope your summer is going well.

I would be driving the darn thing

[Kenn Evans II]

When you get everything back together and gliding down the road, you can have a chuckle on me, when I redid the plugs and wires on my 63 I took them off one by one and put them back on one by one just backwards. I have not figured it how I did it, but the car didn't start I managed to be joke of the week and finally my dad came in and we started over, and he's a GM man and I am learning. LOL

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

Just got back from the shop where i took the car to fix what is left to do. They received the new carburator yesterday. It is a Holley, not a Rochester, which will work for me, except that it is a 2 bbl, not a 4bbl.

I think that the chances of making it to Albany with the Pontiac are now slim to none.