snapper
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| posted on 1/5/11 at 05:59 AM |
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Confessions of an engine builder(Numpty)
Well the news is out.......
Despite promising to keep it to himself, a man who shall remain nameless (Gavin Cocks) could not keep quite for more than a few seconds when I left
the barn and another turned up.
The sorry story....
First start of my looong Pinto build and Gavin was there for moral support or was he there for the chance of a good laugh?
We push it out of the barn.
We crank it over, a lot, so much that the new geared high torque starter goes hot.
There was a few tiny pops as if it nay start but not much.
Back in the barn, a bit despondent.
Check spark with an old plug, there is spark.
Check plugs.
Check fuel & pressure, carbs show fuel dribbling from bell mouths.
No. 1. clean and bright, no smell of petrol.
No. 2. Clean and bright, no smell of petrol.
No. 3. Clean and bright, no smell of petrol and as I am putting it back, what's that in the plug hole, get torch, closer look, yep it's a
paper hand towel I Had put in the inlet manifold to stop gasket crud getting in when I was cleaning off the old ones. Dho.
3 came out of the inlet ports as we turned over by hand, the forth partly came out the rest blew out of the exhaust when we started the engine.
Laugh? How Gavin kept a straight face I don't know.
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 1/5/11 at 06:31 AM |
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Not thefirst time ivet heardthis one
A fellow builder who.will remain.nameless left
ear plugs in.the secondly injection.systems outlets making the
Rev to 6k and run like.a.bag of old.bolts
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omega0684
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| posted on 1/5/11 at 06:57 AM |
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I love Pinto's, even if i did get mine from P&O!
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