Been awhile... weather, anxiety, distractions, life in general held me up and I let the fire under my ass peter out. Today I had to have my DD Nissan towed away. No start, cranks... I put a new fuel pump in cuz we could barely hear the old one. Still nothing. And the truck has just sat in the driveway... I was having no start issues with it too but no crank. The feeling of "oh fxxx" officially creeped in today and I got pissed and put some effort into the truck and within 30 minutes I had her running. Day began at 11 degrees and has gone up to a whopping 20 here in fugly CT.
Initially I was getting almost nothing with the turn of the key, not even a click. I reached down and fiddled the relays and turned the key and heard some electrical noise like something was gonna happen and my wipers went up. I text'd guru Marc
@mwebfj60 and he reminded me of the bump starter he gifted me. I hooked it up to the new starter I didn't really need to buy a few weeks ago since the one I had did bench test all around positive but it was an old crappy reman'd (Pure Energy from Rockauto) so now its got a reman'd Remy, a step up at least. The bump start initiated the starter so once I got that confirmation I tried the key. I was able to prime the carb till the halfway mark and then pulled the choke and let her fly. She struggled tho I knew the battery was charged at 12.6+ I put my jump starter on her and tried again. I had to fight her a bunch with gas and she finally caught hold and held. Wipers were still up and wouldn't go down. My volts were doing a bit of a dance from 14+ down to 12. I think I have some funky gremlins under the dash.
Vac gauge was around 15, some dips so not a tons different from before.
Got her off choke... turned up the idle speed some so she appeared to be about 700/800rpms then the tach gauge started creeping up to 3k tho engine RPM not affected and lowers when I hit the window but creeps back up so I ignored it.
Took her for a spin around the lake and she's running pretty good. s*** eating grin and I am bouncing all over the place... funny how complete tractor they really are. A hard brake and she stalls but starts right back up with gas while still rolling... that happened a few times with either slowing or down shifting. And have popping from the tailpipe with down shifting but feels stronger and more solid while trolling along than previously with that poorly resurfaced intake manifold.
Not sure I'd trust her without pulling the choke in a busy area for slowing and such but seriously from the start of a day with two dead cars to one back up and running I feel a million times better. Talk about living on the edge.
