Of course I have wired up the distributor cap properly. Do you think I am some sort of tit?! Ahem. So, it don't go round in order of 1 to 8 then?! 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 is it?
We'll test the fuel pump whilst we are here by disconnecting a hose and with the help of a milk bottle. Bugger all wrong with that then. Next!
With the cap connected up properly (I found out that there was a back and front as well!), work started on removing 8 spark plus. Lionel kindly soaked them in WD40 and set about cooking them with Simon's gas lamp gun thing. 8 plugs back in and the moment of truth ...
U-bloody-rika! The beast is alive - not happy but alive! And more importantly, I can cross a few things off the Winter To Do List too ...
gone is #06 as the current one appears to squirt fuel into milk bottles perfectly;
tick against #07 as you have already seen;
and another tick on #18 - no more Flintstone holes
All of the above was achieved with the help of a new beast friend - Ian the RAC man from the corner house. He has several V8 Land Rovers too! The Whos Who makes better reading by the day. Wonder if any of them know how to tune twin carbs?
Dashboard removal next. I may even be able to do that on my lonesome?! Watch this space!
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