This week has been a good week as I have managed to take the beast to work 4 days out of 5. Wow! The journeys have not been completely plain sailing though - as you could imagine if you are somewhat au fait with the content of this blog.
Typically, the beast starts with a bit of choke first time with no worries at all. It is obvious from the engine tone that it doesn't really want any choke and the smell of the engine is very petroly - too rich I am led to believe. But, and here is the dilemma, I can get over 3k revs if the choke is out but I can't idle without the choke in. If I rev it with the choke in, the v8 burble turns into an SAS firing range with bangs and pops all over the place.
So what's that all about ... the SU's still or the fuel pump or not a blue distributor cap? Meanwhile, I am getting damned good at heal and toeing!
Clunking
Typically, the beast starts with a bit of choke first time with no worries at all. It is obvious from the engine tone that it doesn't really want any choke and the smell of the engine is very petroly - too rich I am led to believe. But, and here is the dilemma, I can get over 3k revs if the choke is out but I can't idle without the choke in. If I rev it with the choke in, the v8 burble turns into an SAS firing range with bangs and pops all over the place.
So what's that all about ... the SU's still or the fuel pump or not a blue distributor cap? Meanwhile, I am getting damned good at heal and toeing!
Clunking
This week has seen the almost end of MNX500V as Geoff Something has agreed to take it away for me in exchange for a few bits from one of the other 7's that he has in a dismantled state in his warehouse. Geoff has been driving these ploppy cars around for many many years and thus, just might take Guru status off Ed. He suggested that the clunking is infact the trailing arm bushes as the bush hole has a tendency to oval itself after time.
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