The Trials and Tribulations of Killajoules, DjdommyP & Stutab

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Hubs are in the lockup, I will ask my old man it's the kinda thing he would have kicking about. If I get over there before the trial I'll bring them but in
Stacked out this week and weekend it's all gone mad!!
 
Here guys keep an eye out I'm after a front series axle case ideally a scrap old round bottomed type as I have to cut it in half to measure shafts ahem we have a solid 4.75:1 4 pin p38 machined down diff all setup, HD crownwheel and pinion pegged working on fitting the cv's as we speak once they're done it's time to cut open an old case and make some shafts as a pattern.

And they said Ashcroft and kam a HD series axle couldn't be done for a reasonable cost!! Nonsense!!
 
Ah yes you did say well as long as there is a tyro permit I'll be there. If there is no permit then I'll probably be landying aswell!!
 
More bits to fit, this time the D1, I noticed one of the rear bump stops was about to peel off

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Well Yesterday saw the CVLRC RTVing at The Devil's Pit near Barton Le-Clay

Stu went in the newly aquired V8 Disco we had trailered back from Bristol on Saturday although he was going to trial the 80".

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The trial consisted of 8 sections and 9 drivers, so all in all a good day. The boys from Anglian came over to run a CCV too.

The first two sections caught the 80 out in the same place each time acruing us 6 points per fault.

On section 3 it was my turn to be first motor on, a breakthrough. Although I got a 5 through missenterpreting my turning loop in the middle, but Stu hung up on an earlier bank and got an 8.

The gloves were off !

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As section 3 drew to a close we had a brief rain squal which of course changed the grip on the clay significantly for section 4.

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Stu was running before me now and the swine managed to pull a clear! I of course followed on in style by mullering the 8!

Darn, catch up from now on.

After lunch we started of on section 5. A nice climb and a steep descent followed by a tight U-turn. At this point Stu went the wrong way and picked up his own 7.

Based on this I managed to grab a 2 and now eqaul was in the hunt again :)

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Section 6 was a great windey section with hidden cross ruts in the greenery.

As Stu was now before me in the running order and incurred a 3 after getting railroaded, I again learned from his mistake and managed to get my first clear of the day and pull into the lead.

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All things must come to an end!

Stu was now 1st up for section 7. this included a trip along the parallel logs from 2 to 1. Here he showed us all how to do it in style, and that the 80's S2 axles were the perfect track for the logs.

I unfortunatly watched from the corner of my eye as the rear corner kissed the 6 flag and slipped behind by 3 point!

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Section 8 was a rerun of the modified section 3 and was my only hope.

This time I took it gently, and eased my way to the 1 gate, but I had cut the corner to early and could not get my hub through so slipped to an overall 34.

Stu elegantly out lassed me again and got the clear!

Well done Stu! but I have to say 30 v 34 was a good close competition.

While the scores were being totted up we watched Matt have a play on the seesaw

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After a flawless trial we all stared up and started to leave the site. It was at this point the troubles started. A little coughing and missing from the 2L.

Oiled plug I thought from the stop starting. As we pulled onto the A6 on low revs the engine felt fine, but as I acelerated, it would miss and pop as though the vacuum advance was failing.

The grew more noticeable as we doubled back through Barton Le-Clay and retraced our tracks towards the M1. As I climbed the steep hill into Harlington the engine stuttered more and gave a loud back fire.

Then when I pulled up behind Mr Edwins at teh cross roads in Harlingto the engine stopped and would not restart.

An investigation under the bonnet saw the vacuum advance pipe had cracked at the distributor and there was some worrying fresh swarfe beneath the dizzy!

On removing the cap I noticed the retaining screw for the supressor was missing and there was no sign.

Well I bodged a new m4 into it from my tax disk holder, but when Stu cranked the engine fresh swarfe poured out of the dizzy drain hole and the whole thing rotated !! :eek:

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Fortunatly there was a village hall carpark just round the corner, se the V8 disco got its first towing duty and hauled me to a safe refuge.

The AA were then summoned, fortunatly there was a suitable location to sit and wait.

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The chap duely arrived and had a good go at dissasembling the dizzy, getting the screw out that had jammed under the bob weights and was being dragged around cutting aluminium from the body which was the swarfe.

Despite that, we could not get the engine to fire. Then with the application of a squirt of easy start the was an enormous bang

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Game over! he finally accepted defeat and called arecovery truck.

This of course took ages and we retired accross the road agin to wait.

Finally around 8:30pm the truck arrived and SFF ignominiously set of home for the night!

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Well hes tucked away in his garage now until I can research the problem and source a new back box.

Oh yes, and we noticed that the N/S door pillar needs some welding too :doh:
 
Will look for a 25D dizzy if we have any kicking about.


If your in trouble just ring up I was heading back from the site aswell and carry a tow bar on board.

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If you could look that would be great. Someone on LRSOC said it is possible to assemble the dizzy internals 180 out!

It definitely seemed that the timing was out by 180. Ie sparking on the exhaust stroke ergo the blown box

You havnt got a decent s2 back box have you too before I go and buy a new one?
 
Not sure about the internals up the top but the lower drive could be put on 180 out but you can change the leads I guess to make it run
 
Few videos from the weekend.

Devils Pit RTV Slide" on YouTube Devils Pit RTV Slide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8KKtlW0sc

Devils Pit RTV through the vegetab...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KdzuU1QUfM

Devils Pit RTV 86" See-Saw" on You...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8rC28PRxk

Devils Pit RTV 80" See-Saw" on You...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCcoRwvwuPY
 
OK I am sure that the rotor is 180 out after the AA man rebuild.

I have popped a screwdriver down No1 plug hole and removed the rocker cover.

I rotated the engine so #1 in let opened then continued until the piston has risen to TDC

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As you can see the rotor arm is pointing at plug #3

I suppose the next step when I have an evening free again is to disassemble the dizzy

On another note is the timing marker the pip on the top right of the timing window?
 
OK, studying an older photo of my engine today I can see that the dizzy is 180 out :doh:

That would explain why the rotor arm appears to be pointing at #3

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