He ordered parts to rebuild the carburetor, and declared a diaphragm in the carburetor had been installed upside down, though it still seemed to work, but he turned it over. The new parts didn't fix the stall problem, so he rebuilt the distributor with parts he already had. Here's the lighting system he set up using his handy dandy cymbal stand. Now it works and we've been running all our errands all week in it for testing purposes.
A cymbal stand is a very useful and versatile tool for a mechanic. The rest of his drum kit is out of the closet now, since I got rid of my mom's pump organ.
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The joys of classic motoring! Ain't it fun. Not just boring old drives, but interaction with the vehicle, too. (You can also meet lots of new friends on the way)
This morning, very very early, HH got up from a fretful sleep and had an idea for fixing the surge problems he was having with the little Minx's carburetor, and he removed a flapper valve in some convoluted weird system hiding in the engine's bowels and even though this was the first time we had snow this winter, he was out test driving it, and has, I think and he thinks, cross fingers, fixed it. No more surges. Smooth. Hurrah!
The guy he bought the Hillman/Sunbeam parts from was having a rare pause in his busy day, and started chatting. He was a musician and played with Louis Bellson, and his father was a professional trombone player with some old and famous big band. Like you said.
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