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.
I have decided the call the V8 engine in the garage, my Hedge V8, as it lived in the hedge for about 15 years. I started to tear appart the inlet manifold and carbs the other day.
I went out the other evening to play in the floods, it had rained hard and caused some localised minor flooding of low lying roads. I failed to get any video or pictures along the way. But I did take these when I got home.
I fitted the flexi joint in the exhuast some time ago (https://bhhh.co.uk/exhaust-flexi/), I hoped that this would stop the joint between the exhuast down pipe and manifold from taking so much load and working free. Well, it’s worked free again, this time though I have applied an exhuast repair paste stuff which I think has fibre glass in it, so we’ll see how well that does.
The tower was open for people to go to the top on Saturday. We booked our visit and went up, the weather held and we had pretty spectacular views, though an extra 22 m on top of 240 mASL isn’t a huge amount, but it does get you above the hedges and shrubs. We also had a bit of a walk about.. And inside… On google maps:
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