07-08-2019, 12:51 PM
Got the castle nuts torqued to the correct spec on Saturday after buying a suitably strong torque wrench on Friday.
The choke cable was getting very stuck when I tried using it. Turns out it had completely frayed on the inside, so I'll need to get a new one.
Sunday came along and I decided I'd tidy up the garage and pack away tools and stuff. I thought that perhaps the heater cable and choke cable were the same and I could use a brand new heater cable that I had in storage. They're not the same and the heater cable is shorter.
Anyway, a friend came through so that we could try and get the car going without the choke. Turns out there's a massive leak at the manifold gasket, so I'll need to get that replaced. Assuming of course that there isn't an issue with the actual inlet or exhaust manifolds. I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I like to think that Murphy has been sitting on my shoulder as of late and his law is affecting every part of my life.
I then tried to take apart the little throttle bracket on the manifold and proceeded to snap off that stud/bolt.
That abbreviation about the problem being between the seat and the steering wheel rings true right now. I'm very good at breaking the car...
I'll get back to it in the evenings this week. Either source a new manifold or work out how to extract the damaged stud. Then figure out why it's leaking air. If the inlet and exhaust manifolds don't clear each other I'd be rather frustrated. The point of swapping the rubbish old locally produced LCB was to eventually fit the twin carbs and now they might not work. Really feels like one step forward and 10 steps back.
The choke cable was getting very stuck when I tried using it. Turns out it had completely frayed on the inside, so I'll need to get a new one.
Sunday came along and I decided I'd tidy up the garage and pack away tools and stuff. I thought that perhaps the heater cable and choke cable were the same and I could use a brand new heater cable that I had in storage. They're not the same and the heater cable is shorter.
Anyway, a friend came through so that we could try and get the car going without the choke. Turns out there's a massive leak at the manifold gasket, so I'll need to get that replaced. Assuming of course that there isn't an issue with the actual inlet or exhaust manifolds. I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I like to think that Murphy has been sitting on my shoulder as of late and his law is affecting every part of my life.
I then tried to take apart the little throttle bracket on the manifold and proceeded to snap off that stud/bolt.
That abbreviation about the problem being between the seat and the steering wheel rings true right now. I'm very good at breaking the car...
I'll get back to it in the evenings this week. Either source a new manifold or work out how to extract the damaged stud. Then figure out why it's leaking air. If the inlet and exhaust manifolds don't clear each other I'd be rather frustrated. The point of swapping the rubbish old locally produced LCB was to eventually fit the twin carbs and now they might not work. Really feels like one step forward and 10 steps back.
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