Beek may take his time Jim, but in the end...
It's gonna be sweet!!!

SoFlaFiat wrote:Beek may take his time Jim, but in the end...
It's gonna be sweet!!!

oh i dont doubt that . it been something i have wanted to for 17 years lol finally

Alan,,are you going to use a cover over your belt etc?
I'm not going to,.i did not buy all the shiny parts to hide, I'm hoping there a color timing belt out there ,lol

Shame you can't gold plate the rubber huh Jim?
I will install a full cover under the motor to keep trash from getting kicked up into the timing belt. It is my belief that the covers on the timing belt where installed to keep idiots from getting there hair caught up. Remember, it was the 70s! Didn't we all have long hair?

SoFlaFiat wrote:Shame you can't gold plate the rubber huh Jim?
I will install a full cover under the motor to keep trash from getting kicked up into the timing belt. It is my belief that the covers on the timing belt where installed to keep idiots from getting there hair caught up. Remember, it was the 70s! Didn't we all have long hair?

Lol gold is in
Actually one of the cam covers won't work on the 2.0 that's gold, so I have to rebuild a 1608 to the limits just for them,

Thanks to Csaba for fantastic instructions on the needed mods to link the IDF 44s on the manifold it went very smoothly today.





I got the linkage swapped out and the necessary bits trimmed. Then I went about drilling and tapping for my vacuum advance.





The individual lines will feed a manifold and one line will go to the dizzy.



Then I went around and checked everything and finished torquing down and marking the rest of the bolts.



I made better progress today than I thought I would so maybe some evening this week I'll get the thing in under the car. Just have to remember to fills the transmission while it is easy!!

why do u have all those vacuum lines?

fiat218 wrote:why do u have all those vacuum lines?

To pull a vacuum on the distributor (I know, "that ugly dist.") in order to keep a constant vacuum across all four intake runners.

Ok, I won't need that I guess

A bit of fluid in the tranny and under she goes...



















I am very pleased with the "load from under" method and will advocate it any day!! It worked like a dream again and took less than an hour to remove the intake, lift the car, roll the cart under, drop the car, bolt up the cross member and trans support, reinstall the intake and other bits.
Big day for my to see the engine fully back in the car!!

Good to see more progress being made. Looks like you just might win our race after all....

Looks great!!

stunning! well done. wish i was making as good progress as you have.

Wow. I stand jaw dropped in awe.

Neil

wow! looks great!

what is the gauge near the weber carb sign?