Following my unscuccessful attempts to get the 800 started last weekend, I had time on Sunday afternoon to diagnose the starting issues. But the first things I did were to put the 2300 carb back on the Travelall and drain gas out of the tank to see how much crud is in there. I cut down some old cat litter jugs and let the gas drain out, then filtered that through an old pillowcase into a 5-gallon bucket. There was some dark particulate at the bottom of each jug, but not as much as I thought there might be. The truck is parked on a slight angle with the drain plug at the top, so I have to get her running long enough to turn around to properly empty the tank all the way, and then I’ll flush it out with clean gas. Hopefully that will sort out the dirty gas issue.<\/p>\n
During the week I was able to sneak out during lunchtime, test all four of my spare starters (one is dead-dead, one runs weakly, and two sounded healthy) and swap the old mud-encrusted starter on the 800 for one of the good ones. This sounded MUCH better when I tried it out.<\/p>\n
The first weekend task was to do a wet compression test. I dribbled a small amount of oil into the cylinders and checked each one again, and the compression rose dramatically on each one (125-125-150-90) which told me it’s definitely the rings that are stuck. I fiddled with the distributor for a while, adjusting it all the way counterclockwise and then to the opposite side, thinking the timing might be off a little bit, but that had no effect. Then I pulled the cap and rotor off and looked again at the position of the rotor\u2014when I re-stabbed it, I got the rotor pointing a little ahead<\/em> of the #1 cylinder, but not directly at<\/em> it. So I pulled the distributor out and fiddled with it until I could line the body up and re-stab it with the rotor pointed directly at the cylinder. I buttoned the engine back up, shot it with some starting fluid, and it fired right up until the ether burned off.<\/p>\n Halleleujah.<\/em><\/p>\n From there, I played with the carb and the electric fuel pump to see if I could get it to run from the boat tank, and got it to idle happily for a few minutes. At this point I jumped in and tested out the transmission, and got it to move forwards and backwards under its own power. That was a huge relief.\u00a0I didn’t want to run it for too long, as I’d pulled the radiator out to get to the crank, so I shut it down and started looking at next steps:<\/p>\n Total costs to date:<\/strong><\/p>\n Following my unscuccessful attempts to get the 800 started last weekend, I had time on Sunday afternoon to diagnose the starting issues. But the first things I did were to put the 2300 carb back on the Travelall and drain gas out of the tank to see how much crud is in there. I cut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scout-800","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1uh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Item<\/th>\n Cost<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1966 Scout 800<\/td>\n $500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lunch for the recovery crew<\/td>\n $85.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Curved points<\/td>\n $7.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Battery cable<\/td>\n $33.37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Carb Rebuild kit, fuel pump<\/td>\n $46.30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Spare plugs, wires, used starter, coil, fluids<\/td>\n $0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Total<\/strong><\/td>\n $671.67<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"