How much did you pay for it? How many cars do you now have? Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 21, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > The “timing belt” issue is the alternator water pump belt. Just stopped at > the auto parts store and got one, $16. Guy at the counter used to work for > the stealer down the road, says he’s rebuilt a coupla these engines. Got his > name and number. > > She ran the battery down and it quit, also probably overheated, don’t know > how bad. Noticed a little water bubbling from the head gasket on pass side. > Car starts and runs and drives fine, a little cranky on cold start and yeah > seems to idle a bit high. Everything very clean though. Has some kind of > weird hot rod air filter on it, will need to source a proper filter setup. > > I’ll get pics when I get home. > > --R > Sent from iPhone > >> On Apr 21, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> 77 is probably K-Jet or KE-Jet (my 75 Audi Fox was K-Jet). >> >> Couple funky idle drop down servos and lots of hoses -- all of which have to >> be completely sealed for it to run right. KE-Jet has a "frequency valve" to >> control the mixture in the double chamber fuel distributor, and they can be >> a pain. Essentially a modified fuel injector. >> >> Once you get it all sorted out, it's great. Only trouble I had with my Fox >> in the fuel system was a bad injector causing lumpy idle and the fact that >> blowby would freeze in the venturi and flood it out in bitter cold weather. >> It was disconnected when I got it, and stayed that way after I figured that >> out. Had a fuel pump fail, otherwise very trouble free. >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
