Awwww yeah. Welcome to the Pig Party! You now have a moveable, drivable, fixable, piggy bank that will happily accept all of your loose change and then some. You’re going to love it.
Sick piggy and big props for getting after it on all of the repairs and bodywork! Don't want to burst your 1978 bubble here but I think your piggy is older than 1978. 78' is when they went to the taller rear tail lights. Unless they switched mid-year (which they could have, I'm not the most...
Part 2...
Gap your spark plugs
- Buy a spark plug gapper, gap your plugs to .50 to .55
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Installing your new Dizzy, Plan A
- FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS THAT COME WITH YOUR DUI. These have already been posted in this thread previously.
- I ended up using only the thin shim that came with the unit...
MASSIVE thank you to everyone's input on this. Installed my DUI on my 78' Piggy this weekend and could not have done it without this thread. I've tried to add a few bits of my learned experience below. I'm even more of a newbie than @HawkGunner and had to really break this down into bite-size...
Hard to show without the part but the repair manual shows it pretty well. I do think it was the return line that let loose. Tank was 3/4 full. I opened up the gas cap to relieve some pressure which helped also.
UPDATE
Was driving home from playing some golf when I heard a "PING!" and then started to smell gas. I didn't think much of it since I had the rear tailgate down which usually invites the exhaust fumes to come into the cab anyways and I just got off of a gravel road so I figured the "PING" was a...
UPDATE
Somehow I got plates for the iron pig. I didn’t take an emissions test nor did they ask for one. I just paid the fee online hoping that it would go through and it went through.
There’s no way that should’ve happened.
Now I do not have to go through failing emissions, doing the fake...