My problem with the car getting hot and the power going down - was of course as
you all suggested the lack of heatshield. And the heatshield also works as a
bit of a gasket if im correct too - so I think there might have been an air
hole too.
Anyway the car is working fine now - so obviously in some sort of perverse way
Ive got to muck about with it and make it broken again :)
The K&N filter carbs that I got with the car as a spare part happen to be the
non-waxstat type - so this weekend Im going to fit them yet again. As some of
you may remember they had the wrong needles in the last time - and the jet fuel
lines were leaking due to perished washers.
So Ive ordered the washers and the right needles - and the right springs too.
Anything I need to know about changing needles? I took apart the carbs to
discover what needles were in there - so Im guessing that I just do exactly the
same thing and then swap the needles over.
Then of course Ive got to tune them - so Im going to do it roughly - enough to
get me down to the garage on Monday morning where Im getting them
professionally tuned.
James
1977 Pimento Red Spit - fully working and probably shaking in its boots
(tyres?) that Im about to do something bad to it again.......
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