I am so close !!2!@2%4)(8765$#2

[zekow1]

I Bought This Last tr7 on july 2008

I am so close ,I can smell the fumes.

This time ,maybe this weekend .I will start the sucker.
and take a drive .[:D]

No window winders, YETTTT

NO Front Hood

But everything else is done .
The marine tank cleaner will get here Friday Morning and he saids """""" he will clean the tank and the system of any 0239r8&%$#yhdviutg&^%$+)@!oi

hopefully? he is telling the truth.

if it is true?
then the mecanics would be complited,The car should start.

I will post pics, even if the car explodes[?]

[PeterTR7V8]

Good work & good luck. You will want to video any explosions so we can all share the experience.



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[jbsjim]

Good luck Zeke! I'm waiting for the radiator sensor clips and then I think I'm good to go too. A video sounds like a good idea! [8D]

Jim

[Bobbieslandy]

I'll be videoing the start up of my sprint engine after its rebuild even if it does errupt into a huge fireball. We can then all share the pain, or just laugh[:D]

[Beans]

Luckily I don't have a video camera, so no footage when the DHC
erupts in a ball of fire when it's started up for the first time somewhere next week [:D]

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[zekow1]

They did a great job of cleaning the tank
It took about an hour[:D]I did film it and will post it when I figure out how to do it.

BUT most importantly

NOOO it did not start.
it had spark but now it doesn't @$&*@(*)&^*&@*&^*(&.[V]

[FI Spyder]

Did you not modify your Delco electronic coil/distributor to something different? Just trying to get a base point to were we're starting from.


TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra

[john]

The suspense is even killing me and it's not my car Good luck to one and all

[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
1981 Grinnall TR7 v8
1981 Black FHC
1979 & 1980 Black Premium FHC(laid to rest) Sorry


John

[RJS]

I feel your pain.

Relax, drink a beer, and think about what it could be before you tear it completely apart (like I always do).

Better yet, buy a good mechanic a beer and have him look at it for you.

Rob

[zekow1]

Rob -Good Idea
FiSpider- Ya I did

BUUUT before I go there..
I took the distributor Lucas 47DE4-4578 w/crane optical unit
The Crane XR-700 all of these I got from TED
The coil Crane PS20 -Summit
The resistor that came with it
Put a plastic bag on the hole where the distributor was and kicked the front tire hard... really hard

I took the distributor apart at home, found that the top and bottom hard plastic pieces in the distributor where caput.
SO now I have ,nothing, Nada, ZEro ,Zilch.

A Delco distributor not worth Crap
A Delco coil in pieces

A Lucas distributor also in pieces,pieces missing not living and possibly impossible to revive

A Crane electronic unit I can't test to see if it works

And a my kids saying:
Dad the car looks Really,really good but why can't me take it for a ride???.
Children ,Children its a Triumph!!!
you are not supposed to ride it its just for looks and work.

So Now you know
SO Close
But SO Far[V]

[FI Spyder]

I had picked up a NOS Delco electronc distributor on ebay for cheap and a NOS Delco coil on eBay for cheap just for that time when something goes but so far everything is working fine (90,000 miles). If you have the spare parts of hard to get parts in stock nothing will go wrong.[:p]


TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra