Well it took more than a day.
Yesterday I cleaned all the rust off the sending unit, cleaned up the connections and did a little more cleaning on the inside of the tank. Also had to clean the glue off and flatten the sending unit - the metal around the bolt holes was beveled in from bolts that were tightened too far.
the "new" fuel sock was rusted on the ring where it connects to the pump so I had to replace it. Had to correct the bend in the tubes they were bent over a bit too far.
The fuel pump that was in the car did cycle once before I did all that work - but then it died. Took me a while to figure this out - eventually I put it in the other Vette and lo and behold it did not work there either. I took the fuel sending unit from the other Vette and put it into this one, and added a couple gallons of gas. I left the fuel return line off and connected a hose to it and into a bucket, then used the diagnostic port to run the pump and push gas through the system til clean gas was coming through. At this point I dumped a can of fuel injector cleaner into the tank.
With that the car was ready to start. At first it sounded like it was catching just on one cylinder. At first I reasoned there were multiple bad injectors, but I decided to try with some ether. After a couple attempts it did catch and started running.
https://youtu.be/FhAuFLfMwVQ
What you don't see in the video is when the vent line was out of the valve cover there is a steady stream of smoke coming out of there. Also noted there is no air coming out of the radiator cap so it seems the leak is not from a combustion chamber into the water jacket. After I ran it a bit I decided to cycle the oil - and it clearly still had some water in it. I drained the filter as well. The oil was lukewarm but mixed with remaining water that was in the pan.
During all this work I realized I don't have the door key. This made me want to check the lock/unlock mechanism in the door. When I pushed it to lock it would not unlock. Fortunately the door was open at the time, but I ended up having to take the door apart to fix. The door lock mechanism requires the power lock motor to be connected and the plastic clip that held it had broken - so I replaced it with a metal clip I had to hold the rod in place.
Then I decided to wash it. This poor car was quite dirty. Lots of dirt in the crevices, it had throw up on it. It was nice to get the heavy stuff off.
After that I decided to clean up the interior a bit and reinstall the seats.
In the short moves I did in the driveway the rear wheels were grinding badly. As it turns out the Jaguar wheels rub on the rear calipers. For a temporary remedy I added some washers to move the wheels out a bit and clear the calipers.
I still need to get a battery, a replacement fuel pump, and try running the car with water in it to see if it goes into the oil.
Then the car will be headed off to Fred32v's for storage while I get to everything else that needs done in the garage.
