What the heck is a brakeshave?? Ooohh, got it. 'Brakes. Have a nice day'. Sometimes the autocorrect on the eyepad does crap like that too and makes me wonder WTH I typed to deserve that.

Hope you're doing ok with all that water. Tell your back to get un pulled and stop hurting. Back pain is the worst

 

She purrrrrrrrred all the way to work,
she didnt fart, cough gag spit, or burn into flames it was a SWEET ride
She ran like a BEAUTIFUL well OILED MOCHINE, as Cash would say

Also let my daughter drive thru the neighborhood this weekend, gona let her take DnD to school the last day of school, she's been waiting so patiently

April 14th- May 30th

Shifter cable
Carburetor rebuilt
Spark Plug cables
Shifter Cable
Ground Cable
Soldered up 80% of broken wires
Regulator
Charged Battery
2 Tires 215/70 14
Brakes Bled
have I missed anything

Anyways everyone have a great day

Sunny Skies for the next week!!!!

Where's my pics MechDaddy's Uall are BORING

Allan Im not a eyepad user!!! Android

 

I only use the eyepad in the mawnin. It mks mistakes liek craze3! Good to hear you're getting some relief from all the darned water.

 

Glad you got your car heading in the right direction. On a side note, the suns out up here!

 

Allan the way I was positioned bent over the car stepping up on a cement block, replacing the regulator really did a number on me, my back feels better now but the pain has gone down to my calve to my heel, what I’ve been reading online seems to be the plantar fascia, I mean it REALLY HURTS to walk I was hoping it would of gone away by now but 8 days later, pain is getting worse and I feel it’s not getting any better. I’m going to have another 4 day weekend so I will swing by Drs….

And Eric YES finally SUN for 7 days man!!!!! That’s gona be awesome…Eric what’s the name of the color on ur car

Kenneth cut my front lawn AGAIN Sunday!!! Still need the back and I can NOW crank it over in 2 pulls

60 % of my Bullshit stress will be gone by Wednesday!!!!! Yippie for me
And now that the rain has stopped FINALLY meeting with the owner for the Cruise In!!!!, the park is really far from where we both live so been having to reschedule, but I haven’t forgotten and we only live about 1 mile from each other but the bar is about 25 miles out from we are…

 

Adam 12 Adam 12


Mannnn I got a 2 week vacation then back to work on June 29th,
Got a leak in my left break line, gotta get up under there

ANYWAYS WHERES ALL MY MECH-DADDY'S AT

Just wanted to say Ola Kolas have a good day its SUMMER

 

Yes, it definitely is summer:

 

Hi Terri. Where's the leak - metal tubing, rubber hose, or connection fitting?

It was actually warm enough to go for a drive today with the top down, without having to wear a winter jacket or a sweatshirt. Wow!

- Eric

 

Yeah Kenneth, but its a dry heat.

 

I bermemeber Adam 12. Only they used to start out saying One Adam 12, One Adam 12 - see the mechanic daddy on the CO website.... That apparently was the secret 'reach out' police talk of the day...

Brakes now huh? I'm with Eric of the dipthong comment. Need to know exactly where it's leaking. This could be as easy as a brake hose replacement, tighten up a banjo bolt. Seeing how you have mostly dry climes, I'm hoping your brake lines (those are the metal lines that go from the master cylinder to the front brakes) are in good shape.

How much brake fluid are you losing? Whatever you do, don't let the master cylinder run dry or you'll end up taking it off the car to bench bleed.

I had the Right front on mine start leaking. Turned out to be a bad copper crush washer on the inner side of the banjo bolt.

Hmmm, something I just thought of. If you had to bleed the brakes or had them done recently? Check the bleed screw to see if it's done up tight. IIRC it's somewhere around 7/16" flare nut wrench.

 

Yeah, thank goodness for that. I can't imagine this heat with the humidity we had when I lived on the Gulf Coast.

 

Y'all are crackin' me up! Just wait 'til the Monsoon hits and you'll have your humidity. I remember working outdoors in Phoenix when it was 118* and raining. Then after the rain stops, all the rainwater steams up off the ground. That is enough humidity for anyone. Until then though, dry or not, 110* is still stinkin' HOT!

 

I agree. Even with low humidity, anything over ~105 is just plain ol' hot.

 

Hot humid rain cut grass thats been my routine the past 2 months

Cut the front lawn one more time before it started to rain.

Kenneth I worked outside for about 7 years for a few sign shops, working with vinyl and 100 degree weather against a metal box truck there's nothing like it. Kenneth thats some hot azz heat...

Been woking on cleaning and organizing the garage right well Im like 95% done...its sooooo roomy now

The first 2 trucks I did when I was working for someone else and they didnt have a shaded area for larger trucks, so once I quit and started a sign business on my own, I would go to their garage shaded or I would just do it at my house at night time...

anyways its raining again at my house looking online for a new plotter, I have decide not to repair it anymore its ancient its 9 years old, so hopefully I will be back in business....

Bad bad Eric!!!!! go outside
Allan what's up with all the mispelled words u look drunk

I will check the leak monday, havent been able to go fishing either.Im trying

GREAT to hear from all my favorites

 

Lessee,
Eric, other Eric, now an Erik....or more specifically an ERIK!!!!!

Some guys like Ken are soooo lucky. It's dang near impossible to mis spell Ken.

 

Nice lookin' work, Terry!

- Eric

 

Except for when your name is Kenneth.

 

Well Thit! I mithed that.

 

should start a website MechDaddy's.com maybe I can pimp uall out
mannnn, I m so glad I was in my hunk of steal, or I would of been floating down the street got caught in a flash flood in a low area about 2 weeks ago..it was some scary shet!!!!! in 1 min I thought to my self of the cutty stalls I will roll down the window and get out, Im not staying in a car with water rising

Traded in the van for a Mercury Mariner 2010 - I know I know,but it came with a 5 yr warranty couldnt resist...

Humidity 83% - 70% it;s like walking into a freaking Sauna with the sun out...sucks

Cutlass is still riding like champ!!!! even after all the water got inside the car

Eric hope you had good Father's Day, In fact hope all had a good day

Owner to the house Im renting wants to move back in
so glad im tired of cutting the grass

 

Im having a big moving sale

My daughter finally wakes up and were eating at the table and shes reading the sign I made, Armour she says is that spelled right I said ughHHHH

she continues to read the sign what is that am I saying it right as I look up ready with a smart azz reply, I look and read and start to giggle my butt off..

My dyslexia strikes again...I think will be funny to you all too had to share

if ur having a bad day I hope this makes u feel better...ah que mejicana!!!!!
and really I know how to spell too.lol....oh well its still funny, never the less, a FB friend called for the 10$ hoes
xoxoxo

 

That's cheap for *****.

Maybe I should stock up.

Hope you have a great yard sale!!

- Eric

 

awww missed some of...

hows all my favorites ones doing!!!!!!

Where's # 1 at if I was a puppy I would wag my tail at you

Hello to all the Erics from North to South to East to West
Allan, McDonalds farm, Kenneth

Kenneth I am moving to a apartment to get some rest NO MORE FRKING cutting the grass.. .I wont miss that at all
Cutlass is running great, but TOO HOT TO DRIVE BETWEEN THE HRS OF 11:30-7

 

Glad to hear you and the car are doing well

 

Hey, I'm glad to hear that you're getting it together and reducing your stress level!

"One piece at a time" is the way to go!

- Eric

 

You're gonna miss cutting the grass.

 

A Johnny Cash fan! Outstanding - I love that song. Takes me back to my childhood.
Here's the video:

 

Today car stalled....will not start...it just cranks...carb is getting gasoline...and I know after a few tries I flooded her out...Cutlass stayed at the school boo hoo...went back a hour later she still didnt start weird help help

so u think I may need to change rotor and distributor cap again or timing...

last 8 wks I been driving cutlass to work everyday...any ideals....

btw hello everyone..

haven't had any issues she's been running really great, other than a backfire this morning, actually now that I think about it she did stall out monday evening

 

Hi Terry!

What kind of a distributor do you have again? Points or HEI?

Have you confirmed that you have a good spark?

If you do have a good spark, put a timing light on it and see where the timing's set (and/or put the dwell meter on it and double check the dwell angle).
If the points rubbing block wore, or a points screw loosened up, you could have your dwell and timing set way off.

- Eric

 

still have original points I guess havent changed anything on that,,Eric ummm gonna ask a dumb qstn..how do I know for sure its getting spark..

 

Pull the coil wire, stick a screwdriver into the terminal, rest the handle of the screwdriver on the intake manifold, or somewhere, in such a way that one bit of the shaft of the screwdriver is about half an inch away from a grounded surface (bracket, coil, distributor base - whatever), then crank the car and watch for the spark - it should be sharp and blue.

You can also do this at the end of the spark plug wire, but you will get only ⅛ as many sparks.

You can also pull a spark plug, snap the wire back onto it, rest the base of the plug on a grounded surface, crank and watch - the spark should be blue-white.

Read this.

Good luck!

- Eric

 

Glad you've been enjoying the use of the Cutlass. Make sure you have voltage at the coil + terminal on the coil both in the start and run ignition key positions.

 

Sound like time for a nice new HEI conversion but glad you got a some good use of the ole girl

 

Made it back to cutlass this morning she started right up idled for about 3 mins

shut off, now she wont start again...almost like when u flood the carb...

Even when I wait just in case I did flood her out...still wont start

 

probably just need points and condensor replaced under the rotor

 

Time to check further.

Follow my advice above, and get back to us.

And, yes, it could be flooded - you could have a piece of crud stuck between the needle and seat, keeping the needle valve from closing, which could cause it to flood out after a minute or two -- While testing for spark, pull a plug after it stalls and look to see if it is wet.
(note that while flooding can cause wet plugs, no spark at all can do the same thing).

- Eric

 

On a side note I have had a weird thing happen before on a 70 model firebird related to flooding and it was regarding tank ventilation. It had a unvented gas cap and maybe other vents were clogged but after heat of driving in texas and shutting it off the psi in fuel line spiked and over powered needle and seat and it flooded car and actually siphoned gas into the engine and filled it up to the intake manifold with gasoline. It was the oddest thing I had seen. The fact you had a fresh carb and new inline filter I doubt any trash got through. If float was new on carb rebuild it shouldn't be an issue either this quickly.

 

But that ONE tiny piece of sand, in partnership with Mr. Murphy...

I'm just saying, Keep an open mind - it could be a lot of things.

- Eric

 

True True Eric , I was just thinking of items that had not been replaced and also maybe if the voltage is high (12-14) on the coil (no more resistor wire) due to any mods to the wiring maybe the points were short lived and burned up

 

Excellent point. You never know where a car's been, and what's been done to it (sounds like a few "acquaintances" I made in my younger days... ).

- Eric

 

Ok..I can by a friends shop...we replaced districao & rotor ..once replaced she fired right up...but backfiring. We r now replacing plugs and set timing...im doing most of work but he's going to set timing...hes just letting me use his shop so I can wk on the car...it easier to wk here than at the apartments