At 11:30 AM -0500 12/10/02, Douglas Braun wrote, concerning the oddities of the '72 cars:
>I have a '72 built in October 1971 (FK26439L), and as far as I can >tell it never had the black rear panel. But I cannot be 100% certain, since >a PO repainted the car. > >You have the black plastic dashboard, right? Yep, and somehow it hasn't cracked. Another odd fact is that all the paint charts I have seen say that color 82, carmine red, wasn't available until the '73 model. Like I said, we can probably assume that the plant workers had a few pints at lunch. >The correct vacuum unit for the distributor is very hard to find. I'm >lucky that mine works. It is actually the notorious "vacuum retard". >All it does is retard the timing a bit at idle, strictly for >pollution reasons. >If yours is busted, the next best thing to do is to set the timing >to +6 or so, >and the off-idle timing will be correct. That's what I was thinking. Dunno why Dave the mechanic was so insistent on having it working, but I figured I'd humor him. >BTW, my mail program has informed me that "vacuum retard" is a >potentially offensive phrase that I should avoid using in emails. :-) Heh. Perhaps thought you were talking about (insert your least favorite politician here). Ken Strayhorn Hillsborough NC /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
