SHE’S ALIVE!!

GOOD NEWS! After a late night in the garage (8p-2a) with fellow Bolter, Michael S., she is alive and running! We cold set the valves, buttoned up all the panels, topped her off with oil and she fired right up with a single, brief stomp on the starter button! Zero hesitation even after four months of sitting with the engine half torn apart. A little trim of the choke and she purred like a kitten.

Bad news: She’s not getting oil in the filter or up top. Our best guess is that we didn’t put the distributer in deep enough. Idle is better than perfect but the tail of the body drives the oil pump so we’re guessing while the worm drive is overlapping, the flat edge at the base isn’t in the slot on the pump gear. Gonna try to fix it tonight or tomorrow.