I started my Spit for the first time since the motor was rebuilt four or five years ago. Initially I tried by myself. I would crank it. It would start and die. I would turn down the idle screw and try again. It would start and die and so on.
I got my wife out to the shop and told her to crank it while I jiggled the throttle. It started like full throttle, no muffler. I was shouting turn it off while looking for the screw driver and my wife was shouting what, what, what. I called my neighbor and we got it started in the normal fashion. Adjusted it to 2000 RPM with the distributor in the optimum, by ear, position, let it run a few minutes then shut it down. Two days later I drained the radiator, no draincock, had to remove the radiator. The distilled water I put in came out brown, but not bad. I adjusted the valves to .010, put the radiator back on and added antifreeze. Started it up and readjusted the idle and distributor. Now, should I run it 20 minutes then torque the head bolts? I will have to remove the rocker arm. Can I do that and bolt it back on without adjusting it again? http://ljvaughan.homestead.com/firststart.html Larry _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
