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Saturday, December 03, 2011
Times Up?
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Not written anything in here for a while - there's not been alot to report, I've been using the
car on occasion for getting around locally, and haven't had any further issues since installing
the fuel filter. I've been lucky with the weather, but the roads have been gritted a couple of times recently, which might spell the end of using the car for a while. After some overnight rain cleaned the roads up, and they dried out, I ran a couple of errands in the car this morning. Afterwards I decided I should put some anti-freeze in it, so drained the water out of the cooling system, and put a mix in, and got it bled. Then just time for a quick clean and a blast with the hose around the underside. We'll have to see what the weather does as to whether it will get another run out this year, but I've managed just under 200 miles since it hit the road, so that's a nice run-in. |
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Monday, October 24, 2011
A Minor Breakdown
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Nice weather again yesterday, so I went out in the afternoon for a bimble around. After a while,
as I was driving through a village, there was a pretty distinct smell of petrol. I stopped to have
a look, and sure enough, it was coming out of the rear float chamber at a reasonable rate. I left
it to cool down a bit, and set about a roadside repair - I removed the lid of the float chamber
and blew through the valve, as I could see some crap in the bottom of the chamber, so this was
probably the problem. It was, but the problem then moved to the front one, so I ended up doing
the same to that! Fortunately, it stayed dry all the way back home. So this evening I removed them again to clean the float chambers all out. You can see in the photos there is some detritus in the bottom, which I think is from when I stripped a fuel hose pushing it onto the rigid pipe. I took the needles out to check them, the rear one seems ok, the front one is a bit scored, but they seem to seal ok to blowing through them. I also took the gauze filter out of the fuel pump to ensure that was clear - it has a small hole in it which is probably how the rubbish is getting through. Put it all back together and started the car - will have to see how it goes... Will think about fitting an inline filter near the carbs to prevent further roadside issues. |
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Hit The Road!
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There's been a couple of hold ups this week on getting the car finished. Firstly, the trim strips which
I re-fixed last weekend, didn't stay fixed for long. Although the tape did, as I had to spend another
hour or so removing the tape from the car again. I've ordered some different tape to try, but not
got it yet, so that job will have to wait. Secondly, I had some problems with the wiring of one of the front indicators when I re-fitted them after the painting work. I spent an age trying to diagnose it, it seemed to be a problem in the connectors into the loom, so eventually I decided I should replace the connectors with something more modern. So after a few evenings work, I got them all done and seemingly working ok. |
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With that done, that's it! Well, that's it for now. Time to get some miles on the car and see
what goes wrong. So I pushed the car out this morning and gave it a quick wash to get all the
dust off it. Also cleaned out the inside and the glass, so it's looking fairly tidy now. It
could use a proper clean and polish, but all in good time. I took the car out for a while, and put about 30 miles on it without any problems, so that's good. More miles to come tomorrow whilst the weather has perked up a bit again. |
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