[T3] Belches and Smokes! (long)

["Jeff" <knowonelse@sbcglobal.net>]

After more than 10 years of hibernating, being
dragged around on the property, left to the dust, 
sun, and critters, my squareback has once again 
belched smoke!

In recent months I have replaced fuel lines, 
drained and replaced the engine oil, pulled off
all of the brake components, checked and fixed 
electrical in the engine bay, cleaned up loads 
of spider webs, mud wasp nests, invading grass 
in various spaces, piles of decade old food 
wrappers and assorted junk from inside the cab, 
and installing an aluminum pan under the battery 
for support (thanks for the inspiration Jim).

Though the engine turned by hand, I wanted to get
something into the cylinders to lube things a bit.
I pulled the plugs and ran an old fuel hose into
each plug hole and put a couple of table spoons of
Marvel Mystery Oil into each cylinder. I turned the
engine a few times around by hand to spread the oil
around. Cleaned, gapped and re-installed the plugs.

While feeding the line into one cylinder, I noticed
that it came out covered in dirt. I felt inside to
find that mud wasps had built a nest inside the tin
over number 3 cylinder. I was hoping not to, but it
looks like it would be prudent of me to pull the 
engine, tear the tin off and clean things up to 
prevent overheating. That mud nest will just stay
there, baked on. I know this for a fact, as my
truck had a nest on the exhaust cylinder that only
cam off after I scraped it off. It just baked on
when I ran the engine!

I bypassed the fuel tank and ran a line to a 
fuel can. Primed the line a bit, and set the hose
into the can. It wouldn't fire up. I noticed that
there was a little smoke coming out the exhaust
which told me that I had fuel. 

I ran a wire from the battery hot lead into the
engine bay to clamp onto the coil hot lead to
bypass the ignition switch. I wanted to be in the
engine are when I fired it up. I ran a remote
starter as well.

I checked the points to find them horribly pitted
and burned, the cap and rotor a bit burned as well.
Having no new parts around, I filed a better set
of points, and put them in.

Still didn't fire up. Pulled a plug wire, added a
plug and tried to ground it and found no spark.
Went back and checked things to find that the 
wire from the coil to the distributor was off!
Duh, no wonder it wasn't getting any spark.

Talk about a rough start, WHEW, it belched, smoked,
rumbled, roared, coughed, spat, and rattled. After
a couple of minutes it settled down a bit, and it
proceeded to idle on it's own. WOOO HOOO!!!

The exhaust spit out a lot of metallic flakes, 
probably from rust inside the tailpipe.

Boy, it felt good to hear it running once again!

Next step, install the brakes (Jim?, I'm still in
no hurry) so I can get it out of the garage so I
can drain the tank, remove and clean it.

Jeff  '67 Sqbk that belches once again

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