Posted by Texasmark1 on July 29, 2016 at 05:48:00 from (172.242.1.128):
In Reply to: NEWBIE ON FORUM posted by jjtwister on July 29, 2016 at 04:17:54:
While you are waiting on your manual, plan on going completely through the fuel system as gas turns to varnish, you know, like a paint coating for wood....gets hard and clogs things up.
Then drain and refill all the fluids, engine, transmission, differential, oh and obviously fresh 87 octane gas. The engine takes regular automotive 30 w oil, so today's 10w-30 is a good to go. The rest will take gear oil like GL-5 85w-90 or thereabouts.
The ignition probably will need new points, or at least clean the contacts on what you have as they can grow a film that prevents a good contact meaning poor spark voltage. I don't know if it has a magneto rather than a coil and points like older cars used to have or not. I can't help you with a magneto as I never worked on one.
After you get all the fluids changed and checked the ignition....oh and ensure the radiator has coolant (like your car-truck), with the plugs out stick a WD-40 nozzle in the plug holes and give a good squirt. Then turn the engine over manually a few times and then with a fresh, fully charged battery, spin it over for 30 seconds or so to get the oil distributed about the engine. Last put the plugs back in and hooked up you should be ready to go.
Rubber doesn't have to be in all that great of shape. Cracks are common. Main thing is holding air. Plenty of sites to buy parts including this site.....that's how they pay the bills and as I just realized have an enormous catalog from which to shop. Lots of expertise on here and the knowledge base is probably in the 100,000's of hours of hands on experience.
That's the way I would do it. Others have their way.
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