Jim Coyle's Starting, and Gip Marchette?

[jmbrodsky@domain.elided]

Jim,

        I hear you with the timing gears.  Now try and explain what they look 
like to John Landry.  BTW everyone.  After I get the transmission working I'll 
get those digital pics of the old gears for you all, and put them on the web.  
I'm most certainly not going to 'throw them on the bike' to bring them in to 
work.

        Jim, did you take the main coil wire and check for 8x as many sparks 
there?  If the disty is 180 out, it will just spark the wrong cyl at the wrong 
time, but the coil doesn't care about the disty.  It should give 8x spark 
regardless.  If you put the crank gear in 180 out it will still work since the 
valves don't care whether the piston was 'supposed' to be on a compression cycle
or an exhaust cycle.  Problem is that the disty is driven off the cam, and thus 
is important about the phasing.

        Good luck,

        Joel

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:57:29 -0600
From: Jim <junglejim@domain.elided>
Subject: '76 Scout not starting woes
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Jim Coyle
'76 Scout II
345v8, tf727
"International Scout...Anything else is just LESS"

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Ken,

        End my confusion once and for all PLEASE!  Was Gip Marchette the guy 
with the Identical truck to mine ('75 Travelall 150 4wd 1/2T w 3/4T springs, 
392/TQuad, tf727, D60 rr, D44 fr) only his was orange?  Mine is yellow and has a
LS diff BTW..  Also, is this Gip that went to the Nationals?

        What ever happened with your rear window?

        -Joel

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:55:01 -0700
From: pharmer <pharmer@domain.elided>
Subject: RE: Advice needed

I remember watching Gip at the RMIHR last year in his open-diff Travelall
beat a lot of highly modified Scouts in a race around a tight obstacle
course!  Of course, all those front-lockers were slowing the scouts down,
but still, it was fun, and evident that he has a good sense of humor!
 
Ken Farmer

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