Saturday, October 23, 2010

Motor now running


Motor is now up and running. Petrol supply problem was a faulty fuel pump. The new rectified that. Te motor was running very poorly when first started and wouldn't idle. A quick look at the carby settings abd the timing has sorted that out and it's now running very smoothly. The timing was soooooo far out I'm surprised that it i was able to get it started.
I now have to bleed the brakes and the car should be operational again.
Yes. they are 273 rocker covers, but I thought they looked just a little better than the chrome ones with the surface rust starting on them. And anyway. . . . . they're HEMI orange. Gotta be a good thing!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

New motor in!


Took a few days off work (it rained of course) and got the new motor in the car.
Note the new A/C setup.
Having a fuel supply problem at the moment. The fuel pump doesn't seem to want to push the petrol up to the carby. I've ordered a new one. Hopefully that's the problem.

Engine bay clean up


Remember this?????

Well now it looks like this : )