Hodakaguy M38 - Pics and Misc Thread.

[Hodakaguy]

You are truly getting the full experience with that rig Hdk! That is a great toy to have around that's for sure. That baby is pristine. You are doing an excellent job of keeping it perfect. I would expect a lot of people will gather around that one! I am sure the guy's here will agree, that's a concourse restoration there. That video is great.

That "Bluetooth idea" was a great one gmwillys! That is a nice touch for the spectators. I think LarrBeard would agree, I bet those boys back then wish the radio signal transmission and reception was that clear!

Thanks Mate. Lots of little things to go through still as it's been sitting a long time, learning lots in the process! Maintenance is all part of the fun with a classic rig :-)

Hodakaguy

[Hodakaguy]

WOW!!!!
That is Amazing HDK on what you have and what you’re doing!!!!
I think what amazes me most is the Size and Clarity of your pictures
How in the world did you get them that big and crystal clear??

Thanks Mate. I take all my pics wjth a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra phone. These pics are greatly reduced in size to allow them to show up correctly on the forum. I upload my pics to Smugmug then link them to the forum, that way I can have larger pics and it doesn't use up the sites bandwidth. I've gotten in the habit of taking lots of pics when I do a project and sharing them to my build threads, hopefully they will help others in their projects.

Hodakaguy

[Hodakaguy]

Someone pointed out that our hand throttle and choke knob are swapped in each other's positions. Time to make that right.

As we picked it up.






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HodakaPops getting some seat time in .




Cables out.




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Hodakaguy

[bmorgil]

Really a great project HDK. The pictures are great. There is a lot of detail there. I am positive there are pictures that will help others out.

With your rig, it must be perfect! Everything on that baby is just right.

[Hodakaguy]

A little carb work today.

When we purchased our M38 the Jeep was having a rough time running, blowing black smoke, stumbling and running super rich. It was barely drive-able. The Jeep has been sitting for years at this point so we expected a few make run issues. We changed out the ancient fuel (yellow varnish at this point) with some fresh ethanol free fuel and..... it ran even worse! Sooooo we ordered up a carburetor kit and today set to see what we could find.

The Carb before the disassembly.




Popped the elbow off the carb, the bowl isn't as bad as I thought it might be. Wiping my finger in the bottom of the bowl showed a film of greenish sludge.






Removing the metering rod diaphragm. Not in the best of cond, it's cracking and more than likely leaking.




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Removed the entire carb from the Jeep and moved it over to the work bench.




Disassembly.






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Main fuel strainer looked clean.






Running parts through the Ultrasonic Cleaner. This machine does a great job at cleaning all the internal passage ways.




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Interesting find. The original metering rod was missing the pin the connects the metering rod to the diaphragm, the metering rod was just floating around loose. Well that's not good!




New assembly.




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Going back together.








Float height as found was off, a quick re-adjustment returned it to spec.




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