project 1951 Pontiac Chieftain

[PhilA]

Cabin fan blower motor decided to throw in the towel today.

That's annoying because this weather is needed to clear the windows of mist in the early morning.

I think I'm going to push my focus back onto the Plymouth, and just do maintenance items on the Chieftain.

[PhilA]

Plenty of driving lately. Gearbox had resumed being an ass so I'm waiting on a replacement valve block.

However, I've been chasing an intermittent misfire for a while. Know it's ignition related because the tach would jump about.

Twisting the ignition key yesterday I noticed the lights would flicker.

Pulled the switch apart. All burned and dirty inside. 

Cleaned that all up, polished.

Added some dielectric grease and reassembled it all.

Now, no matter where the switch is on its arc, the volt meter stays stable. Hopefully that'll help.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

efi 

breakerless

v8

6 speed tremec

obvs

(kidding)

itll be reet eventually *BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL PHIL*

[PhilA]

16 minutes ago, hairnet said:

efi 

breakerless

v8

6 speed tremec

obvs

(kidding)

itll be reet eventually *BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL PHIL*

For that, I have the Plymouth.

[PhilA]

Been doing a bunch of miles in the Chieftain recently, quite a lot of which are at highway speeds.

At 52, everything's quiet but 55 the exhaust has a very loud drone. Nobody wants to travel at 52 so I went out and bought another muffler.

Same as the front, AutoZone's $27 glasspack. Significant difference now. Around town it has a nice bass note but on the highway the loudest thing now is the gearbox. For the size of it, you'd expect zero difference but I'm surprised at how much of a change it's made.

Phil

 

[hairnet]

so the next experiment therell be a skyline missing a 4" drainpipe

definate rumble then

 

[PhilA]

 

[hairnet]

On 1/10/2021 at 8:55 PM, PhilA said:

 

 

[hairnet]

[2flags]

I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it. A new valve block, if available, will certainly be the way to go. 

[PhilA]

The car started running like a turd today, bucking and cutting out, popping and snapping.

Tonight, out came the scope.

Started looking at traces from the CB side of the coil. That one above is mostly ok, a nice discharge curve but shows a little high resistance on the plug/wire.

This one however isn't clean and is indicating a problem:

Yup, like I thought, distributor cap is failing. New cap time.

[2flags]

Ah, the joy of owning older cars. 😁 At least you're not paying several hundred dollars every month on a PFC. You drive something with style!

[hairnet]

i was hooked up to one of those kinda the same the other week

wasnt an ignition problem tho

 

[PhilA]

New cap, rotor and plugs.

Much better.

So smooth now all you can hear is the creaks, rattles and squeaks.

[hairnet]

6 hours ago, PhilA said:

New cap, rotor and plugs.

Much better.

So smooth now all you can hear is fart

 

[hairnet]

what other slab of blue did you buy

did you miss yer truck

 

[PhilA]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

what other slab of blue did you buy

did you miss yer truck

 

Dodge Ram, traded the Jeep in against it. Needed something with a load bed and good towing capability.

[hairnet]

Addicted to Mopar hehe

[PhilA]

2 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Addicted to Mopar hehe

Got screwed over by Chevy in town one too many times.

Don't like Ford very much, they're built weird.

[sutty2006]

2 hours ago, PhilA said:

Dodge Ram, traded the Jeep in against it. Needed something with a load bed and good towing capability.

Pictures please!!!!

[PhilA]

5 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Pictures please!!!!

Nothing exceptional.

[sutty2006]

1 hour ago, PhilA said:

Nothing exceptional.

That’s cooler than ANYTHING available over here. Fact. Dang it you yanks get all the fun. 

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, PhilA said:

Got screwed over by Chevy in town one too many times.

Don't like Ford very much, they're built weird.

ecoboost would be good

or is that the weird

 

[hairnet]

6 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

That’s cooler than ANYTHING available over here. Fact. Dang it you yanks get all the fun. 

if only gas was 5 bucks a gallon here

 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, PhilA said:

beast

 

on i10 to baton obvs

 

[PhilA]

It's the 5.7 V8 with the semi hybrid electric motor for additional torque. "eTorque". 

Cruising at 70 it'll do UK 25-27 mpg.

Ecoboost is a V6, same size as in the car beside it...

[hairnet]

how far on electrons m9

[PhilA]

10 minutes ago, hairnet said:

how far on electrons m9

The electrons are not for saving fuel.

The electrons are only for MORE POWER.

(This is America)

[hairnet]

4 minutes ago, PhilA said:

The electrons are not for saving fuel.

The electrons are only for MORE POWER.

(This is America)

so its techincally an IMA

does honda know

#

[PhilA]

Nope, not an IMA.

This is belt drive. The alternator is thrown in the bin and a big motor is bolted on in place, with a big fat belt.

There's a 48V battery pack behind the rear seat and it dumps the juice in when you need more get up and go.

It's how they got the towing weight to 12,760 lbs (5783 kg/ 6.3 ton).