I decided a few months ago that I hate paying road tax, and stupid fuel duty, so just as my mrs passed her driving test, she got my daily ford focus, and I dug out my parents '72 109, rollerd it a nicer shade of blue, fixed the broken timing chain, MOT'd it, and now I use it every day, 25 mile round trip.
Its averaging 13 to the gallon.... but on LPG I can just about handle it... just. It is running a early ACR engine, so the full works, cam, head, SU carb, 4 branch manifold. Chips along alright.
Anyway.... im currently using or losing about a litre a week, which is about 180 miles or so, I know it looses some, somewhere, but it doesnt smoke, im running it on 15/40 oil these days, used to be 10/40 but its done 40,000 miles on the ACR engine so thought id thicken it up slightly.
So im wondering really... how much oil is yours using?![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Heres a muddy picture of the serious from yesterday after I decided to go out laning, alone, for the first time in 2 years, and quickly realised this was a mistake.
And a clean picture
Its averaging 13 to the gallon.... but on LPG I can just about handle it... just. It is running a early ACR engine, so the full works, cam, head, SU carb, 4 branch manifold. Chips along alright.
Anyway.... im currently using or losing about a litre a week, which is about 180 miles or so, I know it looses some, somewhere, but it doesnt smoke, im running it on 15/40 oil these days, used to be 10/40 but its done 40,000 miles on the ACR engine so thought id thicken it up slightly.
So im wondering really... how much oil is yours using?
Heres a muddy picture of the serious from yesterday after I decided to go out laning, alone, for the first time in 2 years, and quickly realised this was a mistake.
![391544_4128256002204_1882686190_n.jpg](/lz/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv470%2Fbroken-halfshaf%2F391544_4128256002204_1882686190_n.jpg&hash=3d05adc3496471062112feb4485a98dc)
And a clean picture
![554746_4070650362099_2001611395_n.jpg](/lz/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv470%2Fbroken-halfshaf%2F554746_4070650362099_2001611395_n.jpg&hash=415df2dd77fbd3341e68f365ee2af380)