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Lots of good things have been happening in the last 10 days
New headlights are great, one needs the beam levelled.
Built in sidelights are not wired up yet.
A mate gave me a new headlight bowl and headlight mount so that will get fitted when I fit the relay kit.
Fuel - now seems to be good, I’m still fine tuning the mixture and tickover but it’s very close.
Ignition - I think a lot of the unhappy running was caused by a dirty joint inside the distributor. The “working as a temporary fix” condenser got mounted properly.
Points got cleaned at the same time and the engine ran very sharp for the first time ever.
Nice !
I also borrowed a mates timing light and found the timing was set at 30+ when Haynes says under 10 degrees
It got reset to 10 but isn’t as crisp so I suspect the sweet spot is somewhere between 10-30.
I’ve been told modern petrol needs more advance - anyone have words of wisdom?
A mate had several new “original factory 1 piece exhausts” so I claimed one.
In the factory they are fitted then the back axle is fitted. It will be fun trying to fit it on ramps !
He thinks it’s for a Cortina Mk2 estate but it’s close and I'm sure it can be persuaded to fit, shame it’s a slightly smaller bore
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The car got some exercise running from South Wales to Midlands and being used as nature in intended
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I'm confident that's not it (I tried doing that years ago on another car and it didn't work well)
Engine ran very crisp last week when the timing was advanced 20* past the timing marks, it's now set correctly using the marks. I'll reset to 10* extra when I get my timing light and compare..
Top guesses are my mates timing light is faulty or front pulley / front casing has been swapped for something with timing marks in a different place
A quick photo in the Welsh valleys just to show it didn’t rain for the whole journey home
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Never a dull day
Fizzy could do with that wood nomad .Trust your hearing as soon as it moves to picking up you'll be likely at it's best . If you can get hold of a large vacuum gage 17 to 21 inches of mercury depression in the inlet manifold get it to the biggest depression you cannot get better .than that.
Already in my van many thanks!
Trust your hearing as soon as it moves to picking up you'll be likely at it's best . If you can get hold of a large vacuum gage 17 to 21 inches of mercury depression in the inlet manifold get it to the biggest depression you cannot get better .than that.
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Distributor fed by a skew gear? If so, it is a notch out.
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The distributor is driven by a dog which engages on the skew gear which is a separate part. Easy to remove/adjust/refit on an A series engine , just need a 5/16” UNF bolt to screw into the skew gear, rotate one tooth then reassemble. Been years since I worked on a B series but I think that is the same. As already suggested a vacuum gauge is a useful tuning tool
B-series is a drive dog, on the end of a drive shaft, geared from the camshaft .
I've got a downdraft twin choke Weber on a cast manifold with the legend CT London cast in on branch, something beginning with "C" and "Tuning" on the other, for use on a B-series, complete with carb and KN filter.
That might wake it up . . . all needs a good clean though.
The B-series in my possession has twin SUs, mounted in a LWB Marlin, connected to a Triumph over-drive box. Box is falling out as whoever put it in didn't exactly fit it well - I need to give the whole thing a good coat of looking at to make it run.
That might wake it up . . . all needs a good clean though.
The B-series in my possession has twin SUs, mounted in a LWB Marlin, connected to a Triumph over-drive box. Box is falling out as whoever put it in didn't exactly fit it well - I need to give the whole thing a good coat of looking at to make it run.
An interesting read:
www.aronline.co.uk
Morris Marina Marauder – CAR special inside story
BL Engineer Geoff Johnson shares what it was like overseeing the creation of a special Morris Marina, called the Marauder, for CAR magazine.
www.aronline.co.uk
My preferred option was set to idle at around 2000rpm, advance till revs stopped then back off 100-150rpm. have a test.
Have a sook on vac pipe, see if advance unit intact
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