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Well
the first pull weekend is done ... How did I do ...... Not good .... First
Camcorder decides it's all done making video's for me.. Auto Shutter
doesn’t want to work right. Turn it on all I get is a big white screen..
My Wife played with it and got it to work in manual mode, but every time
it powers down you have to reset the settings. "JUNK"
Now for ShaZam, Oconto Falls was the first pull everything was going good
Unloaded ShaZam off the trailer and she was running fine. As my first
class was coming up I went to bring her into staging, as I was backing out
of my parking spot ShaZam Just Quit running.. Looking things over it seems
the power Hyd. steering was sucking all the batteries down to under 11
volts and the MSD would shut off.
Cleaned all the connections made sure everything was tight and prayed she
make it thru the pull, using the steering as little as possible.
Well didn't work ShaZam Spit, popped, backfires all the way down the track
on the first pull. Only turned 5000 Rpm.. And pulled 252' where first
place went 313' We had a floating finish. So off too change the tires over
for modified class. Not too much else I could do other then leave the
charging unit run and Hope the battery's would hold up for the next run.
Everyone was concerned with how ShaZam was running and would stop by and
give me Idea's as to what might be my problem, From Running Lean to tight
valve to bad Dist. cap, bad plug wires. I thought it might be a bad
pick-up coil in the dist. it's self ..
Well came out in Mod and it was a little better but still acting up, Made
it to 285' this time but finished 5th for the day. As I was running it
back to the trailer it still was spitting and sputtering.
Well once I got home I pulled the dist. and found it had some rust forming
on the coil pick-up which to me means it's getting moister inside there,
SO I swap it out with the New MSD Dizzy I had on the shelve. Only this one
wasn't welded so I put the lightest spring that came with it, with hopes
that all the advance would come in by 3000 rpm's.
Well it would run OK when it got warm but wouldn't idle worth crap when
cold. Still seem to have a stumble in it so I swapped out the plug wire
with some old ones I had on the shelve. Ran much better so Off to the
Sunday pulls in Wabeno.
Well after waiting all day I was the 3rd hook in Super Stock, off the line
it was clear for about 20' then it started breaking up, Cleared it's self
up some and then Went up to 7000 rpm's and seem to be doing great. AND
then at 252' it quit with a Big Puddle of oil under her and a death trial
from about the 240' mark.
So this years first pulls of the season weren’t too good.
Hopefully Oconto in two weeks will be better to me..
ShaZam
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