Got Her Back - Just In Time to Put Her Away

[DUCeditor]

I've been quiet for a while. No new projects being posted. And the reason was simple: My beloved `77 Spider was in the shop. Well finally I got here back, running like a top (she'd had a complete carb rebuild and the resolving of a come-and-go ignition problem), only to have to put her to bed for the winter. (sob! Sob!) Later this morning my Dear One and I will take her out for one last long drive - top up - and than I'll put her to bed.

Oh Spring, do come quickly!

-don

[mdrburchette]

How is she running after such a long time away? Spring is right around the corner cuz Winter has come early this year!

[DUCeditor]

How is she running after such a long time away? Spring is right around the corner cuz Winter has come early this year!

She is running GREAT. The carb hadn't been rebuilt ever - that's 33 years wear and deposits of the diaphragm, needles and jets. Plus, my mechanic who did the work tells me, warpage. He is a perfectionist who uses a heavy pane of glass to make sure that all mating areas are perfectly flat and mine took a lot of careful work to make just so. Then he tuned her to perfection.

The intermittent ignition issue proved to be a faulty condenser. It'd seem (and run) right, then go south. In any case a new one was cheap and once the source of the problem was clear, easy to replace.

But (sigh...) she is now away for the Winter which, round here, is not early but late. No snow yet at all. Of course that could change in the wink of an eye. We've had lots of heavy rain with the thermometer at 33 and 34f. And with it that close all it'd have taken was for someone to have forgotten to close their refrigerator door and it'd have been snow.

Bye bye sweet Spidey. See you sometime in March or April!

-Don