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Chur Pretty fuckin happy widit!

Went for another wee spin last night, found a dark wall and adjusted the headlights, so now they point at the road, not the sky. Also adjusted the steering box, feels much better, just needs alignement me thinks, still a bit vague and twitchy. Rear end feels good, amazing how much of the road surface transfers though the car, from the rear end it would seem, might be the ride height I guess

So no welding and grinding? just paint and stick it together, like a 1:1 airfix model. British racing green with a white roof?

so, were was I? ah yes friday. I phoned around a few places and found Autostop are the only people that carry Bosch car parts these days, asked about a GT40T (for transformer) coil, no worried the helpful young man said, I 'll ring ya back once the van drops it off, sorted. at about noon the guy rings me back, the coils here in the local shop, but for some reason I double checked, it is the small square one right? no its the round cylinder one, doh! no worries he assures me, I'll get it on the next van, I get another call at about 3, square coil is here, sweet! so I bunk off work early as I have the wifes car for the day to go and pick it up, get home on the double time just as Darrell does and we install the new one and she fires straight up!Once I got the old coil out it was obvious it had see better days, but in my defence most of that great crack was hidden from view under the mounts, and I was more worried about the clutch and piston rings still working etc..all this pissing about with the coil had at least given me time to sort a few other small but important things.these are my jets.as I said in the earlier winge post everything has been checked and double checked, which does at least give me more confidence in the old girl.gave the last few parts of the sunroof mech a lick of paint and duct taped the old cover on for now.water tight bugwhich bring us back to friday night and a for the first time a running car. First job, wash all the dust and cat paw prints off it.jeah.stood back enjoyed a beverage until it was nearly dark.once the kids were in bed and I'd realized the only things stopping a wof was a front number plate, wipers and them brakes, or lack there of. I then remembered I hadn't yet had another go at adjusting the rear drums and noticed when I pulled the handbrake on, I had a good pedel, hmmmm.Sure enough they were miles out, whats next? wipers and a plate? might as well keep going!I have some how amassed quite a collection of wiper arms and blades over the years and so had a nice working matching pair, something else new of this car, polished up the old black plate, so many battle scars, but I love it.By now its 11.30, fuck it, I'm going for a drive!now it get this thing legal. I have however driven it on private roads and those twin carbys are transformed this car into a bit of a beast.that little 1600 revs feels like it wants to rev to the moon! still needs a bit of work on the timing and jetting, but dear god it pulled 50mph in second gear today! a little bit scary with drum brakes! so friggin loud though, no headlining at all, my brother said after I took him for a wee blast, it like sitting in the engine bay! it kind of hard to drive normal as it so much fun to wind out.

A oldschool, house.

I did see that, like what a LS runs on each plug? Would that work on this? Spendy I think.

Right! Darrell had a big old coil from before he switched to MSD, we tried starting it again this evening, started but ran like crap, hooked up the big boy and varoommmm! now I need to find another one of these small Bosch GT40 transformer coils, as a cylinder style won't fit where I've mounted mine at least I know what the problem is, has been drivin me nuts!!

will make sure the bakelite is in good nick! yes it uses bakelite plugs. shock horra!

new coil and leads time I guess? mate has another coil to try tonight, fingers crossed!

Nope, still seem to be having ignition problems.Super frustrating as it was running and driving, warmed it up to change the oil and it's not been right since. Best I've got it to run it was only running on 3 and 4, 1 and 2 side felt cold still, or it wouldn't fire at all.Went and got another set of spark plugs and a "big mother"of a battery.Have had the carbs out and pulled apart twice, the accelerator pump jet on number one was blocked so that fixed that problem, also adjusted the float levels to spec, 5-6mm closed, 12-14mm open, i think it was.started playing with the timing and got it to fire and run for a short time, but just as it was warming up it fell down to two cylinders and wouldn't start again.have tried replacing the electronic points replacement module with the old points and condenser.have tried other HT and spark plug leads.got to the point last week that the new started now sounds like a chainsaw and the battery went flat again.swapped the starter out last night for a old Bosch brazil 12volter and had the battery on charge all night and most of today.Got another good distributor cap and rotor off Frank yesterday, got home from work tonight and got everything together, but had reinstalled the old leads.the bugger started and sounded the best it had ever had, tightened the dizzy down, bumped up the idle stop had it idling pretty bloody well, got brave enough to try to drive it down to Darrell's house 50 mtrs away to check the alt is charging the battery and when i started it up after about the third attempt it was back to two cylinders, farting and hicupin and now it wont start again'.Have been trolling thesamba and found a page with a guy having the exact same issue's, he ended up buying new everything which didn't solve the problem until he moved some wires about, thinking about it now, I've routed my leads though the middle of the manifolds under the carbs because its tidy and looks neat, could this be causing problems? the leads are old after sitting in my shed for nearly ten years but not 40 years old or anything.Anyone have any other ideas as to why it would run fine cold but soon splutter out?

was watching the shit outta this on TM, sorry nothing helpful to add but good luck.

so it will only turn left? great work bro, crazy good.

not to ever paint a fucking car again?

and now we both know why paint jobs are so expensive.

Great work there man, looking good!

can't believe you got it running so fast! haha. front end looks cool, I thought they were all had square headlights but there you go.

Aaaahhh photophuckeit! manifold is sweet! you had it custom made?

that was working?

Oi, how did I end up in here? That is the model I got, seems okay so far, will know for sure once I get the engine running better, seemed fine for the time it was running. But the pump its self works well, quite, self primes, doesn't seem to over power the floats like the 044 I tried out.

I got the battery hooked up good last night and it barely had enough juice to run the fuel pump.Had it on charge all night will see if it works tonight pretty sure it's FUBAR. Lookie Lookie what turned up yesterday!ah yeah.was slightly worried they might not fit under the engine lid, my old single dell had the shorter 1inch filter which rubbed.the 1-2 side is close but no touch also had another play with the front drum adjusters and the pedal adjustment for 1/2 inch of free play,much better! still seems a bit soft and firms up after a pump but at least it's not hitting the firewall anymore.air in the lines? needs more bleeding?? what you guys think?

rust never sleeps, even under a matty b blanket.

haha. good luck man.

Cheers guys, flasher would be great bro.

No idea on price, but Pipeline on Patiki Rd has this stuff with all the fittings and top quality barrys behind the counter.

Seems to be heaps on TM this should work? the current one is two pin