Sunday, 26 August 2012

Good Money After Bad

Rimmer Brothers must love me. They'll have me on speed dial in the near future. To try to un-kill the car, I have now added to the long list of bits that have/have not been required to get this ungrateful piece of green crap to simply run properly:

Rimmers love me
2x SU Damper springs, 2x SU BAF needles (this is the second set of carb needles I have now bought), a clutch slave cylinder (as that is still leaking) and an SU link throttle (to replace the snapped one).

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Car Killer

I am a fecking great mechanic me...

I decided to have a go at the carbs. I have been driving on the choke for weeks now. No choke = chugging around like an 850cc 20 year old Fiesta. With choke, it goes like a v8 and sounds like a v8. But that's not right, so I set out to fix it.

i got one bigger than the other ...


I would like to blame the fact that the car is now completely fucked on the two carb springs that should be the same size but are not. That's another tenner. It will now only start on full choke and revs at about 4000 rpm, any fuel added via the accelerator and the fucking thing stops. The carb link rod thing that joins the two SUs together has also snapped at one end. That's another ton to fix. Not that I could get it anywhere near a garage.

I am a fecking great mechanic me...