Took our mach 1 to the mechanic today
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We took it to a friend of ours to basically point at stuff and ask what things were and have him tell us what a mistake we made buying it. There was a fuel filter that was leaking so he switched that out right off. Its ugly but its functional for now. He brought out some laser thing said it was only running on 5 cylinders, but we will get to that later.
Keep in mind I am not a car guy yet and I may misrelate what he told me.
We found out that it has a Muncie top load 4 speed transmission, a 4 barrel Holley carburetor and that it wasn't the vacume one but the mechanical controlled one? The intake on it was a 4 barrel Stroker something (I forgot to bring a notepad lol) He said the heads were probably 4 barrels aswell if the guy spent the money for the rest of it but that we would check that next time. We also have some kind of non stock headers, but we didn't circle back around to them to get more info there. They were talking about stuff I didn't know about and referencing other things in relation to them that I still didn't know about so needless to say I was a bit lost.
He drained out the rear axle lube and put new stuff in. He said the oil was clean, but we should change it anyway. Then he told me to go buy a mechanics for dummies book at the bookstore (boring read btw) He ordered us some accel plug wires and a performance distributor and had them pull a regular distributor cap and rotor and some good spark plugs for us to change out at home to see if that helps those cylinders. We also got an air cleaner, but it wasn't the right size.

We got home with 1000 hp of raw energy and zero planning so I go into the house to grab a towel to throw over the side of the car because I once changed an alternator in another car and finished to find the button on my pants scratched up the paint. I walked out the door to find my son had already popped the hood and pulled the plug wires off the distributor and was trying to figure out how to get the cap off. No he did not write down or mark their locations so we got to learn how to find the TDC by putting my thumb over the hole in the number 1 cylinder the spark plug is supposed to go.
I have to tell you my friend is a bit of a prick especially after I had to call and tell him what we did when he told us to pull them off one at a time. So he doesn't bother to tell me anything other than you have to put your thumb over the hole and have your son turn the car over and watch the rotor. You will know when the rotor gets to the TDC and then starts to laugh a sinister laugh. I of course not knowing anything thing I am about to get the piss shocked out of me or my thumb blown near off. Of course as you experienced guys know it was only a burst of air but the first time I jumped back like a, lets just say it was less than macho, and move on. Then we started the plugs but didn't get finished because we lacked the right ratchet extensions and I dropped a spark plug onto the header pipes and it slide down on top of them where I couldn't reach. Both of these events prompted separate trips to autozone and as the afternoon started to go by company showed up and the wifey told us we couldn't play anymore so we will get back after it today.

T
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Took our mach 1 to the mechanic today - by Todd and Son - 01-26-2014, 11:51 PM

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