’79 Mark V by Kuripiiritus

3 minute(s) of a 75 minute read

4-21-2009

at the moment left the solenoid off. The engine seems to be working fine without it. Will see what happens in the future. 

Now the car is like "day and night" compared with before. You can almost forget that it's a 2,5 ton cruiser. No hesitation at all.. and all this by tuning with only hearing. As the vacuum gauges haven't arrived yet. It might get better when it's actually tuned according some real readings. Longer story and pictures tomorrow. As I'm to tired at the moment.. 4 straight days in the garage.

4-22-2009

At the moment i installed the timing chain with the "0" mark.. no retard or advance. I did this on the first cylinder TOD (or how the top dead position is called). And then i aligned the distributor also to the TOD position of first cylinder. Not sure if i got loose of the factory retard or not. The improvement is significant anyway. Also i can adjust the timing with the distributor if needed. I guess it will do until i take the whole engine apart and give it a good redo in the inside also.

Now to the summary with some pictures. 

The starter relay i was talking about, which needed to be relocated in order to fit the ignition box:

After that i had to replace the positive battery cable, as it was to short. I replaced the negative also. As the battery connectors where really shit after 30 years. (or maybe shorter time).

This is how it looks now. The ignition box in the place of the starter relay:

Also had to heat the inner plastic fender cover with heat gun to get rid of the bump for the relay. After heating i just pressed it inside. Will see if it stays there or will pop out at some moment.

I couldn't connect the throttle linkage using the old connector as it was pressed into the linkage. So we made a new connector from a part bought from local shop. Cut it into half and soldered into the new linkage. Had to bend the linkage arm that holds the cable from the manifold , as the new position would have had a constant throttle on.

Also the spark plugs were cleaned and spaced for the MSD specifications.

Then changed all oils and filled up the cooling system and hit the road.