Did my first tune up last Saturday. It took a lot longer than I remember it taking from when I was in high school. First I adjusted my valves, then gapped my points, then checked my timing. I then drained my oil. I then added in my new oil and we all went for a quick ride to fill up the gas tank. That night I changed all the spark plugs out, I had to lean into the compartment to get the back ones out.
The next day I moved the installed a new fuel filter and changed the location from in between the pump and carb to in between the tank and pump. After all was ready I got everyone in the bus to go for a ride and…it wouldn’t atart. I stood around perplexed for awhile, and figuring that the only two things I had changed were the plugs and filter, I put the filter back in the original location, and put the old plugs back in. Still nothing. After an hour or so of knocking my head, I finally noticed a loose wire on the PO addition of a terminal block on the left side of my compartment.
I plugged that back in and it fired up, but didn’t sound that good and would die every time I stepped on the brakes. I spent another hour so screwing around with the carb and then took a break. I decided I was going to go through all the modifications that the PO had made and undo them to make it stock. While diagramming all the wiring I noticed another unattached wire and pulled up photos of the engine from when I first got it. I figured out where it was supposed to go and after attaching it the bus fired up and didn’t die when I applied the brakes. I readjusted the carb and took her for a 15min ride.
