Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

I'm going to have to live vicariously through your project, Don. Since I got my '34 on the road (less upholstery), all I have to work on is miscellaneous stuff on my daily driver Vette - and that's no fun.

Oh, I can only dream of the day I have to live vicariously!!! I don't think I will mind at all sitting back and watching someone else spend money and work hard.

I'm like you JR, I am not at all sold on these little starters. I can't remember ever buying a starter, even a reman, and having it not bolt on and just do it's thing. This one is Powermaster's top of the line one that will crank 18 to 1 compression and all that stuff, and I can't get it to mesh right. I know my flywheel is bolted on right, and a few times it has cranked and worked fine, but sometimes it sounds like it is tearing the bottom off the engine. It makes this unGodly screaming sound like it is taking teeth off the flexplate. I'm going to recheck the clearances according to the info that Powermaster gives you on the very vague instruction sheet and see if the starter gear is close enough to the flexplate or if we have now got it too far away.

As for Holley pumps, I have run 3 or 4 of them on various cars, and yes they are noisy sob's. The one on my Jeep truck is insulated in rubber and people who ride with me ask what that air compressor is doing running under the car? On my '27 you couldn't hear it for the exhaust, so hopefully the one on my current T will not be a problem either. I know they don't like even a spec of dirt, so I always put a good fine mesh fuel filter before the pump.

It seems sometimes the more we buy good, well known brands of products, the bigger the problems are that we get.

Denny, I think you are right, the next car I put together I am going to try to use a mechanical fuel pump.


Don