Well hew doggie, my N's a just a purr'n away now.It's been one of those balky starting, surging, needs the choke to run models for a while now. Rather annoying. Almost enough to make me want to paint it green and hope that makes it work right. Well while pulling a trailer up the hill it surged, farted and died. It would sorta start a bit with my hand over the carburetor intake, but that was about it. So I cranked it until the battery was nearly dead. After all, if it won't start when you crank it, just crank it some more! Now sometimes I'm not the most observent fella going. For if I was, I'd have put two and two together, and realized that I shouldn't be seeing air in the top of the sediment bowl. But it was hot. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it! Not until I set my lips to the fuel line to blow it out and found no resistance did it occur to me that just maybe... Yep! Outagas! And if I'd have been paying attention to things, I'd have recognized the surging and need for a touch of choke as being very indicative of low fuel. Just like my gravity fed motorcycles would do for a while before falling flat on their faces. Used to be able to tell it was coming and switch to reserve before then. Being crazed with heat stroke (it was really hot) I decided to check on other thing as long as I was perspiring in the sun. Seems there's been conversations around here about one type of point set having a bad rubbing block that would wear away quite rapidly. Upon popping the distributor cap what to my wondering eyes should appear? Eight tiny reindeer...er no, points barely opening. Boy, this heats been getting to me! I'm positive it was the points that were defective. I know I lubed that shaft. Just because I couldn't find any sign of grease upon it doesn't matter! It was all the fault of the neighborhood chipmunks. I'd been warned they crawl under distributor caps seeking grease for frying up accorn fritters. So I scraped the smeared plastic off the distributor shaft, lubed it up for the chipmunks, and reset the points. Ahhh. Yee Hawww!!!!
Starts right up, purrs like kitten, doesn't try to gass me to death. And I didn't have to use any green paint! Now to fix the hole in the barn wall I poked with the tractor yesterday...
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