Woke up late as per my normal Sunday routine.  I got up and ate some pancakes and made arrangements with my Dad to buy a replacement battery and some oil.  I bought my return ticket online and researched a bit settling on a battery with terminals on top as well as using 15w/40 oil. I also found a tack – dwell meter for $24 on Amazon.  We set out to get him a fishing license and me the battery and oil.  We headed over to Sebring and grabbed the oil and battery.  We took a while at Big5 for the fishing license and window shopping before heading back home.

At home I set the gaps on the new bosch spark plugs between 0.025″ and 0.028″.  Looking at the engine tin I decided to clean it up.  Using some carb cleaner as a degreaser I scrubbed off the muck and a lot of the paint has been burned off in places that’ll need redoing.  It’ll be nice to media blast and repaint the engine tin along with the rest
of the engine compartment.  It’s the tar of the engine compartment that scares me.

I fit the spark plugs hand tight with enough tugging of a socket wrench to seat the gaskets and got the plug wires + seals back on.  Fit the engine tin back on, rear apron, air cleaner, and fired it up.  It had a hard time starting and idling.  The starter was turning good and it would start, but there was a wailing sound coming from the engine
compartment.   After reving it a bit it would idle and I pulled the tin away from the crank pulley and the engine seems to rev a bit more, but the sound didn’t go away.  Tugged on the shroud like I saw VolksFire when his bug was making a strange sound and no effect, so it seems like it isn’t coming from the fan.  When I put my head in the compartment it sounds louder in some places than others.  Putting my head under the rear of the car the found is very muffled.  It could be the generator belt or the engine tin rubbing, so I considered pulling the engine tin again, but my time was getting low and I wasn’t looking
for a repeat of missing the train like last time.

I cleaned up, took a shower, grabbed some dinner and a beer and jumped on the train.  I’m planning on coming back in two weeks to finish up.