Saturday, June 2, 2007

After diving today I had to try to get the Rover going. I realized the Schucks sold me the battery but they didn't have a charge on it.... so I jumped it from my pilot. Got the motor turning over right away but it wouldn't fire. Pulled the plugs and they were pretty damaged so I ran down and got some new ones. OH Note.. another awesome feature.. The hood was causing me issues when changing the plugs and working on the engine.. so the Rover has pins on the hood that allow you to pull it to the drivers side and remove it ... Put the plugs in and sprayed the carb with gas and it fired right up only to die when the fuel ran out. .. now I took a look at the fuel pump thinking that maybe it wasn't working and notice its the old style glass bowl I took that out and empied it ..there wasn't any water in it only a bit a old garp but it was on the bottom so no issues. I then started looking around and realized that glass bowl wasn't filling so I started looking around and realized that under the drivers seat there is a valve that swaps between off and the multiple tanks ( I think I only have the one but I have to look) After playing with it for a while I figured out which way to turn it for the tank I do have and fired the engine up.. runs nice. its much quieter than I figured. I have the battery on the charger tonight and tomorrow its time to bleed the brakes. Dave why didn't you buy that cool bleeder... ;)

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