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I took off my carbs and manifold today. And since (I'm sure you all remember) the last time I drove the car the oil pressure started plummeting at temperature - I figured I should just take a look at the oil pump as well. I didn't take off the entire pump - just the end where the distributor fits in. To my untrained eye it doesn't look so bad. . .I haven't gotten out the feeler guage yet but the lobes seem quite tight together. . .
Everyone (including Bean Engineering) thinks I've got a problem w/ my front carb (Strombergs). Everyone things this is probably why I'm firing intermittetly on the from 2 cylinders. Instead of dinking around w/ the strombergs - I have a freshly rebuilt pair of Dellorto 40E's that I'm going to put on them. Even more variables!!!
Only one more problem then I'll let everyone alone for a bit :-) . When I took off the Carbs and manifold - i didn't drain the radiator - so unfortunately, I got some h20 in some of the valves and of course a little bit of water in the cylinder that the valves were open on. I sopped it all out and sprayed everything down real well w/ WD40. Then I turned the engine over by hand a couple of times and sprayed it down again. Does everyone figure that's good enough? I took out the plugs and sprayed everything w/ WD40 to try to make sure that I dissipated all the h2O.
Who knows, I might even have it running again in a coupla weeks.
Cheers,