Spent Friday replacing the spark plugs, leads, rotor and cap, points (might be the wrong ones as they required modification just to fit), earth and power leads and remade the fusible link. Managed to get it running roughly, played around with timing and fuel but couldn't get it running long enough to play with either the timing or the idle. By that stage the battery was toast and after having it tested, was told it needed to be replaced as well. Damn.
So spent a couple of hours today trying to get it to run properly, again to no avail. Didn't help that the distributor cap had flashing from the mould on three of the points. Gave up and moved on to the tail lights. I had bought a set of aftermarket tri colour lights but they turned out to be about 30mm to big to fit into the housing, so I'm going to try and clean up the housings and lenses as best I can.
Which brings me to the original owner. I know a lot of people who have been afflicted by the curse of the previous owner, I have and have probably been cursed for things I've done. But I need to say a big thankyou to the original owner of my truck who had it coated in some sort of rust proofing paint from new. This paint is now starting to come off in areas and the steel underneath is shiny smooth and like new. So to the old farmer from NSW, thankyou for looking after the old girl and not letting her become a paddock basher or roo shooter.
