Lady Charlotte - 1966 2000SC
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Dave3066
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chrisyork said:
...and we have a 9 week old puppy now too :shock: There are simply not enough hours in the day!testrider said:
Must be something about the 4 pots and head gaskets. Didn't Frazzle have to have his done shortly after getting his car, or did I just imagine that? :roll:
Dave
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rockdemon said:
Guilty M'lud
and I wouldn't have it any other way.....but that also means that all those people who claim that these cars are far better off being driven are lulling us into a false sense of security :wink:
Keeps me from getting bored I guess. She developed another misfire this morning. Not just a "running on 3 cylinders quite happily" misfire but a "no it doesn't matter how hard you press the accelerator you're not getting any power" type misfire. It happened twice and cleared up rather mysteriously twice. The last time it was like that was when the fuel pipe linking the carb float chamber to the main body was loose and leaking fuel so it hesitated under full throttle. I checked that on the way to work and there's no signs of fuel leakage so I'm thinking I might have yet another distributor cap on the way out. Just as well I have a few spares :roll: sheesh!
It's probably just her way of telling me off for not doing any work on Verity last night.
Dave
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Awww that's cute
Everybody here thinks I hate dogs, it's not true I love them, just don't want one !
Back to head gaskets, I've only had to do one 4 pot head gasket, and that was due to typical Rover oil seal O ring failure. At the back of the head, I lost a full sump of oil in 70 miles, decided it was cheaper to fix it than keep topping up. Fairly straight forward job and ran much better afterwards.
Everybody here thinks I hate dogs, it's not true I love them, just don't want one !
Back to head gaskets, I've only had to do one 4 pot head gasket, and that was due to typical Rover oil seal O ring failure. At the back of the head, I lost a full sump of oil in 70 miles, decided it was cheaper to fix it than keep topping up. Fairly straight forward job and ran much better afterwards.
Dave3066
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I put my last good spare distributor cap on The Lady this morning and the run to work was misfire free . That's the third cap in 2 months :evil: cheap aftermarket substandard rubbish!
Time to shop around for a better supplier.
By the way, what are people's views on Lucas sport coils? Are they any better than standard?
Dave
. That's the third cap in 2 months :evil: cheap aftermarket substandard rubbish!Time to shop around for a better supplier.
By the way, what are people's views on Lucas sport coils? Are they any better than standard?
Dave
I've got a lucas sport coil on PAE - has worked fine with lumenition. The coil it replaced was the 1968 original, which is still working and therefore kept in the boot for an emergency spare
On the dizzy caps front I've been having similar problems - the most recent one has been ok for the last 3 months, but is about the 8th i've put on in 2 years of ownership with at least 8 months off the road....
Rich.
On the dizzy caps front I've been having similar problems - the most recent one has been ok for the last 3 months, but is about the 8th i've put on in 2 years of ownership with at least 8 months off the road....
Rich.
Dave3066
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What makes an engine suddenly run rich?
The Lady had been behaving herself very well, following her head gasket issues, until I had a long run to Dundee the other evening. Cruising along at 70 on the motorway when she started exhibiting a strange momentary hesitation on throttle application. Every time I eased off the throttle then applied it again there would be a slight hesitation before she picked up again. This developed into very lumpy running on start up no matter how much or little choke I used then continued to become slightly fast idle when stopped at juntions.
A couple of thoughts crossed my mind. Sticking needle perhaps causing fast idle, sticking throttle linkage perhaps. The choke and hesitation led me to believe she might be running rich for some reason so I checked all the plugs and they all looked like this:
Next question then was why? I took the dashpot off the carb and it popped up quite a lot when I loosened off the last screw. Once removed I could see that the damper piston was sitting very high:
That explains the fast idle but again why? I removed the piston to check the needle and jet and all seemed ok until I spotted this:
Ok, that shouldn't be there:
Air cleaner box off to confirm where that had come from
Fixed
Back on, plugs cleaned and refitted and problem solved
Dave
The Lady had been behaving herself very well, following her head gasket issues, until I had a long run to Dundee the other evening. Cruising along at 70 on the motorway when she started exhibiting a strange momentary hesitation on throttle application. Every time I eased off the throttle then applied it again there would be a slight hesitation before she picked up again. This developed into very lumpy running on start up no matter how much or little choke I used then continued to become slightly fast idle when stopped at juntions.
A couple of thoughts crossed my mind. Sticking needle perhaps causing fast idle, sticking throttle linkage perhaps. The choke and hesitation led me to believe she might be running rich for some reason so I checked all the plugs and they all looked like this:
Next question then was why? I took the dashpot off the carb and it popped up quite a lot when I loosened off the last screw. Once removed I could see that the damper piston was sitting very high:
That explains the fast idle but again why? I removed the piston to check the needle and jet and all seemed ok until I spotted this:
Ok, that shouldn't be there:
Air cleaner box off to confirm where that had come from
Fixed
Back on, plugs cleaned and refitted and problem solved
Dave
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You've got to wonder what the hell caused that to break the weld, snap in half and end up where it did (actually the last bit is obvious but the other two ???)
My theory is that at some point it was over tightened which broke the welds, then after many miles of that section flexing back and forth, it stress fractured by the bolt and fell off.
My theory is that at some point it was over tightened which broke the welds, then after many miles of that section flexing back and forth, it stress fractured by the bolt and fell off.
Dave3066
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chrisyork said:
Thanks Chris. Problem with running a car like this every day is that you don't have weeks to figure these things out. Hopefully that'll be it for now. The head gasket, distributor cap and this makes 3 so no more please :roll:
harveyp6 said:
These things only ever happen once.....don't they.....
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Well it seemed alright last time I changed the air filter.........whistle........could've been that I overtightened it then.....
Dave