Greetings,
I took my GMC for its first road run the other day,
certainly had jaws dropping, especially with no guards, bonnet
or engine panels, no cabin or windsheild, was a lot of fun,
just a short run, after bleeding up the brakes.
Still wont start very easily, the spark is very weak.
The consensus is condenser is faulty, a new one is on order + points,leads,
rotor, cap.
Is the spark on 6V machines normally OK?
The plug lead will only jump spark visibly to earth about 1/2mm,
the coil about 2mm
voltage at coil is 5.78v, coil is new, old coil was the same.
Coild there be some other reason for poor spark?
I was given a Carter WA-1 cabie NOS and put it on.
Now have Strombergs that will fit off a Inter C1100,
1970 282cu petrol.
All the talk of winching was informative.
The dude who advised small drum diameter is hell
on wire rope is dead right, plus when ever i really
need to winch, am in a shit spot and cant run the
cable out straight ahead, meaning the rope bunches
all on one side, cause the wincnch drums are flimsy a bar
usually goes across the drum to reinforce the whole thing
and the rope jams on this after not many wraps, neccesitating
frequent respools, not fun in adverse circumstances,
(on my electric winch Scout)
also was good advice to run cable UNDER winch anchor point
if possible, so that broken wire slaps ground first.
A question:
Does a 1962 IH Scout qualify as an MV for this list,
I have one...i am nearly sure..yes, certain, the US army used them
sometime...can anyone confirm ( they run slant-four 152cu engines,
which is literally half a V392 IH truck motor).
regards tony
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