Justin,
Not much experience with the Buick V-8....
Some new Gas certainly won't hurt. Are you adjusting just the idle speed? have you messed with the idle mixture yet? Did you check the timing? Did you let it get good and warm? Sounds like you have some mechanical experience so sure you got most of this covered but have to double check.... My experience with the V6 nailhead has been.... Fresh oil, fresh plugs, warm it up, check/ adjust the timing (if you havent put on a pertronix kit yet check your points and dwell and consider the kit), adjust the mixture (with a vacuum guage) adjust the idle speed, then repeat, timing, mixture, idle until I can get no further improvement, and she runs great. Once it's dialed in the seasonal tune up isn't so bad.
I think it is just about universaly accepted that the cable and pulley set up is......"sub-optimal" particularly compared to the tru course system...that being said.. I still run the cable and pulley system and it works pretty well. Just check the cable for any fraying in the vynil jackets as this can cause you to slip a pulley , then you have to crawl under the dash and take apart the pulley get the cable back on, yadda, yadda, yadda....
If you have the time, run across a good deal on a true course set up and feel you want a project, convert!! Otherwise, if you take care of your cables/pulleys they will serve you fairly well. I restrung mine a couple years ago and think it may not have been the first time, but I detected some less than desirable methodology on the set of cables I replaced (missing shock springs ect.) If your set up is in good shape, just take it easy with the wild manuvers and you'll be fine,.
Knowing what I have under there I actually find the steering suprisingly crisp and easy at speed (remember, judging on a curve, I know whats behind that steering...amazing)
Cheers,
B.C.
On Aug 28, 2009, Justin DeSantis <duc1098desmo@...> wrote:
I found a few things. It fired right up, but the fast idle level seems
to make it idle way faster than I'd like. I had to turn it almost all
the way down to get it in to what I felt comfortable with. And no
amount of warming up seemed to let it want to run without the lever.
If I tried to get it to 1000rpm on the tach it would die. I'm thinking
(hoping) that filling it with fresh gas and running it a bit will cure
that. Not other major problems found. Horn has resumed normal
operation, I'm thinking the battery was just low.
Let me ask this, how reliable is the steering system? That cable
running back the length of the boat and changing direction a few times
seems like a good place for a failure to happen. Anything to worry
about there?
Still haven't figured out the table windshield holder thing, but
didn't really put any time in to it.
Looked at the transom. Sort of hard to read. It's maybe a little soft,
but not rotten. It pretty much looks and feels like 42 year old wood.
Anything I can put on it to strengthen it or keep it from getting
worse?
I think that was all the questions I came up with today.
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