Recent content by Mikep

Seeing as I felt I had nothing to lose with my old sender I did attempt to straighten out the pipe. I had it almost straight without any problems and decided to push my luck and tweak it a little more. I should have left it alone as I ended up cracking the pipe :roll: With no other choice I...

Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply. Thankfully just got back with a successfully repaired sender :D Sydney or not I would have taken you up on your offer due to thier scarcity.

Im just putting the feelers out there to see if anyone has a 3500 fuel sender for sale? My one has a crack in the main fuel feed pipe and Im having it repaired this week. However there maybe a possibility that it won't be successful so I'm seeing whats out there. Many thanks Mike

With the ongoing saga of my car misfiring and eliminating loads of items I decided to remove my petrol tank (a job I've been meaning to do for ages) and give it a clean to make sure that there wasn't any grunge blocking up the pipes in the sender. It was quite straight forward to remove and...

Hi Peter, I used to have an inline filter before the old electric pump and one just before the carb. The rear one wasn't actually too bad but did have one piece of rusty metal in it! When I fitted the new pump (cant remember off hand if its a red top or silver top) I removed both inline filters...

A little update to my on-going saga. Taking Harveys advice I removed the N/S carb to double check the float height after I replaced the old one. Lo and behold I had set it incorrectly by gapping it from the highest part of the float :oops: That will teach me for rushing it. Anyway having...

Thats what I have been thinking Harvey, I had rebuilt the carbs before myself and was confident about setting the float height again. I have nothing to lose by double checking.

I've just got back from holiday so I thought I'd update on my lack of progress with getting the car running. I replaced the rotor arm and dizzy cap before I went away but didn't notice any improvement so today, with new enthusiasm I had another look at everything. I have rechecked my timing...

Hi Paul, This was something i suspected, it had previously been replaced though by myself in 2012 after experiencing similar symptoms. I have tried sucking it but can't make the 'points' move so I removed it and was able to just about move the arm in. Its a lot stiffer than I thought. Should...

Hi everyone, I posted a few weeks ago regarding the poor running of my car and possible fuel starvation. I check the fuel lines were clear and upgraded my electric fuel pump to a Facet silver top and removed the fuel filters I had to solely rely on the changeable one in the filter but this...

Great news Phil :D

Thanks for that Rob. I think my issues today were due to 20 odd miles of motorway driving was using up the fuel in the filter and float bowls which starved the engine, as a result the pump struggled to give a sufficient supply. My mechanical pump was redundant before I got the car. I take this...

I had a Facet posi-flow that was on the car when I bought it. I moved it to the back and when it packed up I bought another because it bolted straight onto the bracket I made. I know it's a rubbish pump, maybe I should of bought something different.

Im still experiencing issues with fuel starvation to the point of the car cutting out on hills. Firstly I want to rule out any restrictions in the main fuel line to the front of the car. Can anyone recommend the correct pipe that I should be using? I believe that there are currently plastic...

Looking really good. It really suits the wheels and the interior looks like new :D