Those side tracks in the gate are adjustable, look at the bottom bolt (slotted). I hope you're going to change out that gear, cause you're dancing with the devil with the old one.
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Hmmm…now that is worth exploring. Thanks!Think they meant pry the channels open
Good point! Of course sometimes I think I am dancing with the devil for the whole truck!
Haven’t had time to open it back up yet. Work has been busy. Still hopeful the side rails have adjustments that I had not noticed before. Later today getting a bad weld fixed on my exhaust pipe which is the source of some nasty smell finding it’s way into the truck.
Pig Party right around the corner.
Just getting Zeke ready for GSMTR 23
Opened up the tailgate for another attempt at getting the window to go up/down better since the silicon spray only modestly helped.
1) The four screws that hold the regulator in place, although they do allow adjustment, don’t really do anything since the rollers just move in the roller track. Nothing there.
2) Looked for the adjustment screws for the two side rails. My tailgate only has one adjustment screw on each side. Near as I can tell that adjustment only alters the angle that the glass goes into the upper slots since the glass does not go into the frame 100% vertical by design of the body angle. See picture of the adjustment screw.
Question: do other pig year tailgates have rail adjustment screws that would make the width of the two rails a little wider?
When I first got all my tailgate working the glass was so tight I could barely move it by hand. I had two options: 1) shave the glass a little or 2) remove some of the rubber off the SLOCruiser molding along the outside edge. I went with option 2 using a belt sander. Took off as much as I could and it worked nice and smooth…until it didn’t shortly after last years PP.
1) The four screws that hold the regulator in place, although they do allow adjustment, don’t really do anything since the rollers just move in the roller track. Nothing there.
2) Looked for the adjustment screws for the two side rails. My tailgate only has one adjustment screw on each side. Near as I can tell that adjustment only alters the angle that the glass goes into the upper slots since the glass does not go into the frame 100% vertical by design of the body angle. See picture of the adjustment screw.
Question: do other pig year tailgates have rail adjustment screws that would make the width of the two rails a little wider?
When I first got all my tailgate working the glass was so tight I could barely move it by hand. I had two options: 1) shave the glass a little or 2) remove some of the rubber off the SLOCruiser molding along the outside edge. I went with option 2 using a belt sander. Took off as much as I could and it worked nice and smooth…until it didn’t shortly after last years PP.
That's it for adjustments. If that vertical adjustment is off it will bind going up into the body, but you probably checked that already. Something sure changed, because it was working good. Is the felt bunched up in the track, I had that happen one time.
Not much. Pulled the sparking plugs and looked at them, I've seen worse. Checked compression with the cheap HF testers that i got 4 of. All say i got 130 to 120 up and down the block. Wire brushed and gapped them. Put them back in and started it up.
Man, I think I've got some those springs from when my 40 still the six cylinder in it. Seems I remember a different color was a different spring rate. Do you need anymore or different ones, I can look.
Very kind of you Sir, the kit came with a small assortment of different colored different sized springs, and bushing thingies that i forgot to try.
I really have only the vaguest notion of what I'm trying to do here.
If I remember right, stiffer springs don't allow the weights from moving out as fast and the timing advances slower ( I think ) 
Yup. According to the directions sheet that i started reading right after i got the dizzy back in, the 2 lightest springs, which i put in, should max out at 2500 RPM or so. I rarely take it over 3k.If I remember right, stiffer springs don't allow the weights from moving out as fast and the timing advances slower ( I think )
1 light silver and 1 light blue might max out at 3k.
Of course, these numbers are for their dizzy, not a 60 series. I've no idea how weights compare etc.
I did drive into town (beerrun) and it seems to drive better. But i always think that after I've done anything to it.
One thing i did notice, the small OEM spring that i removed was not taut at rest. The new springs are under tension at rest. No idea if that means anything. But seems to come off idle better, which was a problem earlier unless i set my base timing high (like 22* BTDC). It drives ok at 15* BTDC but my manifold vacuum is 2" lower. No pinging though. I bumped it up to 17*. Will see how it likes that tomorrow.
Optimism is always the best attitude to take when working on a pig or at least when spending the day banging your head against it.
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
They always drive better when doing 
run 
run A Pig promotes optimism in it's owner. A Pig, in my experience, always gets you home. It may be wounded, and limping, but it always gets you home. So just sitting in the driver seat infuses optimism to the sitter. Knowing everything gonna be alright.
We don't bang heads, my Pig and me. We wrestle though.
Today i learned that i can turn the engine off and remove the key and have the ignition remain on. And that stupid isolator solenoid doesn't isolate if you leave the ignition on.
So today i charged batteries.
So today i charged batteries.
