westOz74P6B
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Although living in Western Australia, I am originally from Sunderland, and that is my excuse for a leaning towards 'pommy' cars. Having owned a '76Triumph Dolomite, an '85 Rover 3500 SE2, and now (you guessed it) a '74 3500 P6B. What a nicely styled car they are. Mine is an originally delivered Rover to WA having the "Faulls" dealership plate attached in the engine bay and myself being the third owner, purchasing the car from the original owners nephew. It has previously had a respray in a lighter shade of green which I think looks nicer than the original darkish green (hopefully pictures to follow). Now the fun begins, needs the cracked dash (the aussie sun not only dries the skin out) repairing, rear brake pads renewing and currently in the process of fitting electric radiator cooling fans (as the viscous hub is showing signs of leaking). Also just removed (with cursive great difficulty) the leaky fuel reserve valve (what a daft place to put it on the series two's) and now draw fuel dirctly from the lower reserve line at the tank, which begs the question that the fuel guage must be calibrated to read empty at the higher take off line? and is there a way to modify this? Have also fitted an unused Mobelec fuel computer which I got from ebay (how retro is that, fitting a '70's aftermarket product to a '70's car) it works well reading in mpg but does fluctuate between high and low readings so makes an exact reading difficult as you have to learn to average the highs and lows (as the litrature explains) anybody have experience using these units? Looking forward to conversing with you all.