Well, at least for right now I’m still sticking with the 1100 one-barrel carburetor. I cleaned all the passages I could get to in the 2100 with pieces of wire. It still refused to idle, no matter how I adjusted it. Hold the throttle open a bit and it ...
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I haven’t been messing with the Mustang quite as much lately. It also developed a hot start issue last night. I drove it to church, and it wouldn’t start afterward. I ended up getting a ride, then came back later and it started okay. It did the same ...
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Carburetor
I’ve been working on getting the Autolite 2100 2 barrel installed and setup. I rebuilt it with a NAPA kit and installed a universal manual choke kit, though there’s no good place to mount one of the brackets so I’ll need to figure something else out ...
read morePoints triggered electronic ignition
I’ve got the electronic ignition I described a couple posts back partially installed and running now. Right now it’s running triggered off of the points, as I didn’t have any luck getting the distributor to fit—I really think it’s slightly bent or something. Everything is ...
read moreShelby/Arning drop completed
I can finally call the Shelby/Arning drop complete… got it aligned this afternoon.
Before that, though, I had to do just a little bit of filing to get the upper control arms to go in. I also had to hammer out the back of the driver’s side shock ...
read morePS shock tower rust and Shelby drop
After finishing the drilling for the driver’s side Shelby drop, I moved onto fixing the passenger side. The rust through the shock tower and the frame rail were just as bad. I ended up doing the same thing as on the driver’s side—clean it up the best ...
read moreMore DS shock tower
I pretty much have the driver’s side shock tower work finished up. I ended up needing to babysit my niece for a good portion of today (and tomorrow), so I couldn’t get quite as much done as I wanted to.
I added a few little braces to the ...
read moreDS shock tower and frame patch
I got most of the patching done on the driver’s side shock tower/frame area. I knew there was a little rust through the area, but as I scraped some mud away, chunks of frame started coming out as well. The entire top of the frame rail under the ...
read morePlanned ignition upgrade and Shelby drop start
Since the current distributor in my Mustang is the Load-O-Matic that only has vacuum advance and depends on a special Spark Control Valve in the carburetor (which the 2100 doesn’t have), the ignition needs to get changed with the new carb. I haven’t received the parts yet, but ...
read moreStart of 2 barrel carb upgrade
There hasn’t been a lot to update on lately. I’ve just been driving it around a bit, tweaking a few random things here and there, took it to a cruise night, and so on. I haven’t really figured anything out on its idle issues or anything, sadly ...
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