Decided I might as well chronicle MadGe too...
History of what I've done since pickup from Paul.
As planned, had a guy do the front end work that was "in progress". Dampers, full bushing, bolt, and swaybar mounts replaced. Tires, front brake hard lines. Plugs, wires, dist cap. All from parts Paul provided (less the concentric bolt kit needed for the control arm rebuild).
On the way from Roch to St Helena Is., the MC let go (Cumberland MD). Did a replacement in an Advance Auto parking lot. Had to manufacture mounting stuff and some replacement brake line. Around Roanoke VA the engine started to act starved for fuel. Suspected vapor lock due to long durations of high speed driving. Continued to occur with periods of excellent driving until she refused to start in middle-of-nowhere SC. While waiting on tow noticed that the electronic ig was shorting. Fixed that to get home but didn't run right.
After a few days of tinkering did some diag and narrowed it down to spark problems. Called some specialists and they unanimously indicated that the culprit was likely me frying the electronic ignition module. Research suggested that the "stock" ignition modules were no good (no one manufactures a Lucas direct replacement) and most electronic manufactures suggested points for the 1500cc in MadGe. So a 25d was spec'd and purchased.
25d installed and static timed to 8°btdc she fired right up. Did some guestimate timing based on the instructions from the distributor supplier and she was very peppy. Loaded up son for test drive only to discover there were 0 breaks as I attempted a turn. Thankfully there was a long sand area between the bail out for the corner and the water.
Got back to house to find large pool of break fluid where the rear driver wheel had been. "Interrogated" son to find that he had mashed the brakes. In researching how to fix ran into the now infomous "dot3 vs dot5 debacle. As of this morning have dot3 out of system and dot5 in it (but out of dot5 to "finish" the bleed tomorrow).
As of November 2, 2014, that's where she is. Next actions are going to be
1. finish with brake flush/bleed
2. rebuild rear brake cylinders and then flush/bleed again.
3. clean up some electrical stuff
4. fix windshield sprayer (if not fixed in #3)
Interspersed in there will be "take wife to beach".
