MautoK
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| posted on 15/6/09 at 09:40 PM |
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Looking promising...!
L&G,
The 'new-to-me' engine is in the car all connected up, twin SUs in place of the original nasty carb.
Filled with oil and established oil pressure then did a compression test (before the manifolds went on) and all cylinders were in the 160 to 170
range.
Fired up first time! 
I left it idling for about 15 minutes and the temp gauge reached half scale.
One noticeable difference from the old engine - there's now a steady stream of water coming into the header tank from the rad+'stat bleeds.
Previously when it got hot and the header filled up, there was a stream of bubbles.
There's still a few mods to do, mainly the throttle linkage needs a bit of adjustment as the cable is a bit tight for length and a different
bracket for the header tank.
But apart from that it's looking a lot more promising than the old one.
 
Offside
 
Nearside
He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling that when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen. (OUATITW/Cheyenne)
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Guinness
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| posted on 15/6/09 at 09:41 PM |
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Nice one.
Time to get some miles under your tyres!
Mike
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omega0684
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| posted on 15/6/09 at 09:53 PM |
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john did you check that the water pump was working on the other pinto?
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MautoK
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| posted on 15/6/09 at 10:23 PM |
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Alex,
Haven't taken it out since, but it was fine when I rebuilt the front end of the old engine - it only did about 50 miles since then.
The 'new' engine looked to have a newer pump so I used that; I removed it, checked it and refitted with a new gasket.
John.
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Originally posted by omega0684
john did you check that the water pump was working on the other pinto?
He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling that when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen. (OUATITW/Cheyenne)
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