Ken G's Journal

The car hadn't been run in a few days and it took a few minutes of cranking to get it to start. It really hates being cold. Once it is warmed up it starts pretty easily.
So today I fixed the broken accelerator with a bike cable. Easy job, such a simple design, I don't really like the way the cable is routed on the top and very close to the valve cover but it is working.
So the first was that I was able to back the car up out of the garage and then drive back in. That was the first time it had moved under it's own power. One thing I found out is it has no brakes, not needed for my slow motion experience but certainly high one the list.

One thing that has been brought to my attention by my darling wife is that it is loud, too loud. So I need to work on that. I think it is a combination of no hood, headers, and old exhaust but I need to do something about it.

Since I did run it today I decided to do a compression test. I ran it twice on all cylinders, I think the numbers are decent:
1- 140, 2- 120, 3-125, 4-130
1-142, 2-123, 3-125, 4-140
2 and 3 are down 15-20 compared to 1 and 4, not sure if this is a concern but none are really out of wack so I was happy with that.

The other day I had the single radiator fan running, so I found that the sub harness connecting fan 1 to fan 2 was shorted out. I rerouted so that only fan 1 was hooked up but then I couldn't get the fan to engage. Today Fan 1 started up as expected, but I didn't do anything with it. I'm guessing that there is another short in the wire, or the radiator switch is bad. I am planning on putting in an aftermarket pull fan on a relay eventually which will make me resolve these issues at that time.