The Temptress

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Hope you’re recovered!

Thanks Glen see above for up to date on the spot medical detail

Too true. Our last house move involved me finding the wife unconscious at the bottom of the cellar steps with a large head wound and having seizures. That put the cat amongst the pigeons I can tell you.

And cruciate ligaments...

It's where they stick a long thin nail down the inside of your finger to lock it rigid while the tendon reattaches itself. Actually quite funny if it's a middle finger that you've done in . They are still open for regular business so I'd go and bother them. Even if you only needed a bit of physio, better to get it now than have twinges later on.

THANK YOU ADY !


And Clamity , that sounds like fun !


Ok DOKEY , a progress report incoming .

....... first job was to try to fix the broken off rocker box stud ..to do this i ran a die down the stud remnant , and then tapped a thread down a drilled out brake pipe fitting ,this was then fitted with a threaded stud in 1/4 bsf thread , which the domed chrome nut screwed onto....however,the assembly was too long , and i could not get the die arms past the rockers , so i did this ..





i give that a 5.65/10 for butchery quality level .


this allowed me to get the thread down a lot further eg..




and i could then have the fitting a lot lower like so ..





voi ..as they say...la.



next , now i had finished this in the rain , i went inside and had a play with the distributor..


i found it has a weird thing on the side ,..




cleaned up a trifle..





the knurled cap is easy to turn , is spring loaded with a 1/2 turn detent ...and all i could think of was a greaser of some sort ? answers on a postcard ,sent to me with a pound stamp on please


next i found the vacuum advance canister is a goner , no surprise , so i took it apart ..




lid drifted off..





holy diaphragm ( as the pregnant nun said to the priest)








now as you can see from the numbers on the thing , it has max advance of 10 crank degrees , not really enough , i would prefer 20 , for lpg .,also its split , i could find some sort of goop to goop it up i suppose ...

also i want boost retard .... so ..loads of research later , i got nowhere ,this is without spending money .

so i think i may goop it up ,unfortunately the diaphragm is swaged in the middle other wise i would make another ,may still try to unswage it, and modify it to give more movement ..


for the boost retard i came up with this ..





which i am sure is self explanatory , but do please ask if not .



oh one last thing , in fact maybe i should have lead with this , i found out why the car was probably laid up in the first place..




yup , that's the centrifugal advance mechanismo ....lacking one spring ,broken and lying in the case , and the other spring being so worn it does nothing .so this poor car was running with no advance, either mechanical or vacuum ..AT ALL.so 10 degrees timing ,all the time , i be that was a bit flat ,and ran very hot too.




and the motto for the day is ,

"do not pick up a purple glove ,it may be suede."





regards
robert

Yup, fill that little cup with grease- inside will likely be cut as the springs will latch multiple places as it turns. Give it a click every 500 miles or so on mine. Depending on the thread yours may be less.

I do like pictures of mucky bits!
Good work with the distributor....Brrrmmmm Brrrmmmmm soon!

no problemo mr 75

the vacuum advance unit on the left , looks like a little flying saucer , has a spring loaded diaphragm inside , and when it receives enough vacuum ,moves a little rod connected to the plate upon which the point are mounted and this advances the timing 10 degrees.

I have removed the adjusting wheel from the vacuum unit holder ,and replaced it with a 4 psi wastegate actuator off a turbocharger .
However , as opposed to its normal way of working , which is to have the actuator bolted to the turbo ,then the rod moves the wastegate , i have connected the mounting bolt to the vacuum holder ,and the actuator rod is now hard up against the distributor housing .

this means ,when the wastegate actuator receives 4 psi boost , it will push the rod out ,and so draw the vacuum holder to the right ,so retarding the ignition .i can vary the amount of retard by putting a washer on the threaded rod where the old adjustment wheel went ,and if its trapped between to locknuts i can move it side to side for more or less retard .

i can also have a air bleed on the signal to the actuator ,and with a threaded bleed valve adjust when i start to get retard .


it has basically created a 3d boost ignition map , with no ecu involved and no money spent.



hope that all made sense .


regards
robert