Mk1b restoration... its alive..and painted!!

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:48 pm

here is the car starting from cold today...

after some sound advice i am going to leave it for now, get on with getting the car road worthy and in the mean time see what happens as i bed the engine in.

Post by **Lauren** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:24 pm

boondougal wrote:
after some sound advice i am going to leave it for now, get on with getting the car road worthy and in the mean time see what happens as i bed the engine in.

Looks much better in that last vid. Get everything sorted, drive it ont the road and see where you're at then.

craig · Post by **craig** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:48 pm

Great thread matey. Hats off to ya, you've done well!

Looking forward to seeing it finished!

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:53 pm

RedMR² wrote:Great thread matey. Hats off to ya, you've done well!

Looking forward to seeing it finished!

cheers Red... looking forward to seeing it finished myself!

pk_090 · Post by **pk_090** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:33 pm

I must admit though, id did look cool when it was smoking, and well, you know what everybody says, smoking makes you look cool!

Glad its almost sorted now, hope mine is as simple!
Alex

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:15 pm

pk_090 wrote:I must admit though, id did look cool when it was smoking, and well, you know what everybody says, smoking makes you look cool!

Glad its almost sorted now, hope mine is as simple!
Alex

i like the rings of smoke it pops out.

Not sure its solved yet, that last vid is a cold start vid, the others are when its warm.... i am just hoping it settles its self!!!

elbon50 · Post by **elbon50** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:29 pm

boondougal wrote:
pk_090 wrote:I must admit though, id did look cool when it was smoking, and well, you know what everybody says, smoking makes you look cool!

Glad its almost sorted now, hope mine is as simple!
Alex

i like the rings of smoke it pops out.

Not sure its solved yet, that last vid is a cold start vid, the others are when its warm.... i am just hoping it settles its self!!!

Well when you've got the paint done you can get it MoTd, taxed & ready for the road

That should take a week or so at the speed you produce results

You can start to run it in then & see if it settles

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:55 pm

I want it finished by May!

In think work will get in the way though!!!

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:56 pm

So today has been a good day!

for those of you that have followed the previous thread you will straight away see the difference in how the car is running... seriously smoke free!

I had ran the car up and down the road and it was now good and warm (still not been able to get it past half way) but the smoke was still present same as before.

A few days ago i read about how oil through the cam breather back into the plenum could cause smoking (often a sign of stem seal wear) so i had blown it through a few times to make sure it was clear and clean.

Just before putting it back in the garage i decided to check for oil int he breather... and with the engine running i pulled the pipe off the cam cover to a hugh release of air pressure!

i thought surely that not right... there wasn't much oil luckily or i guess i could have been burn't but definitely air, so i blew through the hose again, nothing of note...

I popped the end of my air blower into the cam cover breather outlet and gave it a little blow and then did the same in the plenum... POP... engine calms down and all of a sudden no smoke.

something had blocked the breather inlet on the plenum, i had blown it out and now the vid above is how the engine is running...

Needless to say i am a tad happy! $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$ $\:D/$

I have no idea what was in the hole but i imagine gunk from the breather last time i blew it out... i assume it was some kind of back pressure in the head that was causing it to smoke... but i am not sure on the mechanics of it.. oh and finely given this was a new engine i have no idea what kind of wear damage it may have caused but for now its a big relief!

So lesson learn't... the importance of the cam breather!

I have some clear tube that i might put on to see how much oil is "escaping" but fingers crossed thats the problem solved...

Boddney · Post by **Boddney** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:35 pm

I can imagine the relief you felt. Well done, good find. $\:D/$

Post by **Lauren** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:39 pm

Briliant, that's much better.

I'd be tempted to run an oil catch can, though you don't have to of course.

elbon50 · Post by **elbon50** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:49 pm

Ecellent

You can stop worrying about that & get on with the other jobs now

Paint spraying

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:31 pm

i was sooooooooooo pleased!

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:09 pm

Just because it makes me happy to see the car moving here is a vid of me taking it for a spin...... Pre finding the blocked breather!

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz11 ... 06fa22.mp4

Post by **Lauren** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:32 pm

Great stuff, Sam.

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:14 am

well i tried and tried and tried to set the timing yesterday... after having the distributor out more times than i care to say i finally decided to call Paul for some advice..

As expected he pointed me in the right direction, by fully rotating the distributor to the passenger side i could only manage to get to within 30 degrees of TDC timing... So the conclusion was the TPS was not set right.

This fitted with the fact i was getting 11 flashes on the Dash.

Well after testing the TPS with the gauge and checking for resistance with the meter i made some small adjustments and re installed.

The dash light no longer flashed (just 1 flash for ok)

but now the car will not start... it cranks but won't catch, it did catch a couple of times but it sounded like it might have only been on one cylinder and died pretty quickly

I have pulled the plugs and cleaned them, brand new plugs were covered in black soot, and cleaned the contacts in the distributor.

Going to go over everything again today but it has really put me in a bad mood as it was running prety well and now nothing....

pk_090 · Post by **pk_090** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:34 am

I found that when mine would turn over but not catch the battery didn't have enough juice! Dropped it on charge and then next day wham no bother!
Alex

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:39 am

it could be that... i have been turning it over alot without any battery charging.

poor ignition would also tie into the state of the plugs...

i'm going to need a booster/charger anyway so i might go and get one and see if that cures it.

SuperRedMR2 · Post by **SuperRedMR2** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:46 am

Hey Sam I haven't been at home the last two nights and am delivering my engine to its new home tonight, but will post your clips when I get in later tonight

boondougal · Post by **boondougal** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:52 am

SuperRedMR2 wrote:Hey Sam I haven't been at home the last two nights and am delivering my engine to its new home tonight, but will post your clips when I get in later tonight

No worries but thanks for the update!

As you can see, i'm consumed by engine woes at the moment so no rush on my part.

As and when you can

cheers

www.imoc.co.uk

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