G'day
The engine is now in the process of being stripped so it's not possible to
record or video it running.
Many thanks to everyone who have responded and extra thanks to Ed Driver who
took the trouble to call from Canada yesterday to discuss the problem. Also
Chris Dimmock called last night (thanks Chris) and we discussed it at
length. He believes that it a camshaft/follower problem. He may be right.
Remember whatever broke hasn't happened after the car had been sitting idle,
but after being run for close on to 800 kilometres (or 500 miles)and when it
was being driven at just 60kph (37mph).
So it's either the crank or camshaft, so whatever, I have decided that it's
got to come out and be rebuilt. It's a C26W original engine that GCH fitted
in 1954, sometime before the first production six-cylinder Austin-Healeys.
Being what the car is, it's probably the oldest Austin C-series engine
running in an AH today, but on Chris's suggestions I will update some of the
internals.
Of course I will keep everyone informed.
BTW. I managed to run our modern GPS machine (Tom Tom) in the car by
isolating an auxiliary power supply. Works well, but it is boring looking at
a straight line for hours on end. But it's good to know what speed I was
doing in a metric Australia.
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
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