I went and picked up the head today from the place that skimmed it for me. I think the surface is looking vastly better. Apparently it was dished by about 2 thousandths of an inch.
I stripped and re assembled the fuel related parts of the carb, all looked okay. I assume i achieved nothing in doing this short the knowledge that i likely wasted my time.
I got a rush of keen-nosity and pulled the head off the Land Rover last night. I didn’t really want to, but the moment grabbed me and I did it. I am glad it’s off, as I can see that there was one wet head bolt, suggesting that the gasket was letting water past. As it’s off now it’s an opportunity to get everything cleaned up and new gaskets everywhere. This was the spark plug inspection and compression testing, thanks to Dan for the compression tester. Then the removal of the head: And that’s as far as I have gotten, now I neeed to do a proper inspection of the head and block etc.
So the spark plugs made little difference. I picked up a rebuild kit for the lift pump last week and so the moment it turned up here, i didn’t do it, but i left it in until later on and then did it. Not wildly easy to get the valves out. I have yet to start the engine having done this. So i might have failed to do something or made no change to the issue. We’ll see when i run it, if it even runs now.
I change the spark plugs as it developed a misfire at high rpm and underload. The plugs turned up yesterday and i got them in today. I put a little WD40 on each connection for added water resistance.
I went out in the Land Rover on Saturday and discovered it had something of a misfire when underload. I imagine it’s something to do with the ignition system; ..so pulled the distributor cap off, leads and plugs out; Now I am not sure, but two of the plugs where broken when I got them out, now whether they were damaged before I tried to remove them, or whether I simply broke them taking them out, I can not be certain either way. I have cleaned up all of the other components and will get a new set of plugs, which wouldn’t have done any harm either way, and we’ll see if that resolves the issue.
Went out in the evening to do a few of the local lanes, one I haven’t done before and to show a local fella some of those that I knew. I didn’t get much footage, only this one nice picture towards the top of the hill here:
It’s been time for an oil change for a good few months, on all the cars really, but the Land Rover is the easiest, so it got in there first. I also did an enginer flush, which is a first for me. I got some stuff from Halfords for just over five quid a tin, and that tin will do up to 10 litres of engine oil, so that covers all of our cars. As soon as I got in, I popped the bonnet right off and dumped this stuff in as per the destruction on the tin, then it said to idle for 20 mins, this seemed excessive to me (Even though I don’t understand the reasons etc etc) so I set a timer for 7 mins and thought I woulc chekc back in to see what the engine temperature was up to. After 7 minutes it was still […]
I did three lanes yesterday on the way home from the Tank Museum, the first two were very good, didn’t see too many people and so could dawdle along at my own pace and not distrube anyone. the third I was met with a rive with I chose not to cross. There are the three lanes I did, going right to left, the first one goes from Laurence of Arabia’s (T. E. Lawrence) house to Morton, then the second goes from no where to the same place and the thrid which is a byway rather than an unclassifided road just runs through some feilds and through the river Frome. Luckily i had my flip flops with me, so at the wet bit I could get out and open the gate and explore the wet area. Though I found the most shallow part of the river was above my knee and I […]
Thought I’d clean the carb last night, I had noticed some dirt build up on the slide so had picked up some carb cleaner. I stripped off the pistons and niddle, bascially the bits that move, and having cleaned it I reassembled it. Also went around with the WD40 and just made sure the electrics were water resistant.
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