then this happened. great. flatted back and done again. what a bastid!
on monday the 8th september, I borrowed works car trailer and took the car (now running and some bits back on but no inbetween pics) to autoglass.
the guy said I needn't have brought the car in as if he'd known he'd have come out but he didn't know until an hour before I arrived
at least he knew what one was and how to fit it
how we arrived, trusty senator at the helm
ought to call who?
so what do you reckon to the paint? its not that good but it has got it covered and its not too unpleasant. one of the ladies there said she thought it was "cute". first time I've heard that one!
the hero of the day, I think he even enjoyed it!
glazed!
BIG thanks to these guys, for holding out for so long and being very helpful and friendly about the whole thing. I'm very pleased.
and now some more recent events
basically been refitting it after piant and windscreen, so not much to shout about.
I had been running it up, and the running was not good and eratic. put a colortune in it and I thought it was gonna go bang! back firing all over the shop
pulled the air horn off the carb and it spat a flame out, so I tweaked a the mix a bit but I still couldn't get rid of the plumes of smoke it kicks out. I know its a two stroke but this was like someone was running it on crude.
anyway, I've been refitting and making sense of the wiring too. makes a lot more sense once you realise half the fuses are live and the other half are wired
after the switches and devices. crazy, but it now works. and my fuel gauge was a bit, errr, winky. it read three quarters full which was a tad optimistic, and when you put the side lights on it went through the roof
more on that later.
I done the timing on the car this morning, not that easy as theres one timing mark but three sets of points. lovely. so I find the points gap is way small and the timings out too! you do the points on TDC and than back the crank off on a DTI until about 40 degrees BTDC, then advance slowly with a test lamp over the condensor rail for the required cylinder. at 3.58mm before TDC the lamp illuminates. or it does after 2 hours tinkering.
an old pic of the points. points one ( the ones at about 7 o'clock) are mounted solid on the base plate, the gap is done with an eccentric bolt- wish other cars were like that, slacken the pinch bolt, turn the eccentric until you get feel and then nip the pinch up again. brilliant! the entire base plate needs turning to set the timing for number one, but the other points are independant of the base plate and fully adjustable. talk about a headfeck
after running the car for a while, it was dripping oil patches on the floor. not sump oil, it doesn't have one.
it was leaving little presents like this one for me to mop. tasty.
so I took the exhaust off and it looks like this inside-
lots of thick carbon and a film of thick sludge which gets thinner with heat and makes the bad smoke. doesn't smoke at all when the front pipe is disconnected. makes a bit of noise like that tho ;D exhaust is now draining into a tray in the corner and then I'm gonna set fire to it
think someone had been running it on 16:1
been playing with this little box. would have taken a slow pic of it burning away, but the car bl00dy ran out of petrol
my surface mount fuse boxes, now hopefully permanently in place and NOS dip relay from germany. I had to get bits in, I snapped the starter solenoid off aswell
I just like this crazy pic
I love the way that four nuts, a couple of connectors and the bonnet cable is all you need to remove to get to this. and the bumper has a slot in it under the number plate to give access to the points.
settled on these desmo mirrors in the end, they suit it well I think
my new gauge to replace the wafty DDR ones. I've had this for yonks, no idea what it was fitted to! I swapped the oil pressure gauge for a minor fuel gauge, I just need to open up the dash hole a bit to get it in. neat huh?
looks something like this at night. the bright red light is the fog light switch.
because
side lights on. the headlamps are mk2 (sw20) mr2 headlamps. I had to drill my sw20 lamps to fit bulb holders- minor oversight on my part, mr2's have separate sidelights
its got two dash lights from some smiths gauges
dipped beam, hazzards and some ugly git in the car
god bless mr pilkington
and thats it. you now know all you need to
there will be more but I'm so facking useless at updating readersrides threads that it may be sometime
enjoy for now
;D
wish fords were like that, then the terminal rot they gather would at least be easier to fix 
