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So this morning I reset the float level - the front carb was a little high. Then confident that my woes were over I headed off to the junk yard to pick up my Chevy truck wheels for my 15X6 conversion (cutting the centers out of the volvo rims and installing them on the truck rims). Flog the Volvo on the way out to the yard (Italian tune-up), put the wheels in the car and it won't start.
So I wait for the engine to cool off like before, and it still won't start. Now I'm stuck - but at least I'm at the junk yard. So I start to do some poking around my now cool engine. I started with the ignition, pulled the cap to discover that the rotor contact tip looks burnt out! Pull it off and the little cup falls right off - new problem (and the rotor is not yet a year old). So into the yard office and they find a rotor for me in their "whatever" pile of rotors. It's the same size (different design), they don't even charge me for it. Put it in and away I go.
Seemed to do the trick. I recheck everything when I get home and all's well. Drive the car around town - doesn't seem to be running perfectly, but it is working. And even though it is quite hot outside and I was doing stop and go driving, it started hot several times without objection. I decide to put on a new rotor just in case - swing by the parts store and pick one up.
Then things get weird - I get home with the new rotor and when I pull the cap, I found the junk yard rotor has broken (the tip has broken and the contact is about 45 degrees from its original position. I guess it wasn't quite the right size. The crazy part is that it ran in this condition!
I filed and reset the points, lubed the distributor and tried to find the missing pieces - couldn't find a thing in the distributor. I can't say I've ever had a car that is this tough - amazing.
Craig
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