Happy to be here guys! Looking for some technical help on my Shorland.
1. This guy has the 2.6L six in it. She won't rev past 3500 RPM. Been through the Zenith carb, seems clean. She runs out ok up to 3500, but makes very, very little power. Just enough to pull herself around in low in first or second gear. Everything seems normal enough, only oddity is that if I pull the cap off the distributor, I can move the rotor assembly back and forth by say 15 degrees. Never had one that did that, but I'm new to Lucas distributors, except for the one in our Midget, which doesn't do that.
2. The passenger side front wheel is binding. Pulled it apart, brakes are backed all the way off, but she is very tight, needs a bar to turn the wheel over at the studs, can generally move it with the wheel when jacked up. Fairly confident it isn't brakes, and that it didn't do that when I first got it, but not 100% sure. Transmission had a bad reverse gear (teeth chewed off) so I pulled it and replaced it with a rebuilt transmission. Should I tear into and assume I have bad bearings?
3. The 4wd lever doesn't seem to want to come up far enough to release it out of 4wd. Any trick to this? Before I tore it down, the lever would come up and release almost all the tension out of the spring, now it seems compressed down.
Thanks again everyone!
1. This guy has the 2.6L six in it. She won't rev past 3500 RPM. Been through the Zenith carb, seems clean. She runs out ok up to 3500, but makes very, very little power. Just enough to pull herself around in low in first or second gear. Everything seems normal enough, only oddity is that if I pull the cap off the distributor, I can move the rotor assembly back and forth by say 15 degrees. Never had one that did that, but I'm new to Lucas distributors, except for the one in our Midget, which doesn't do that.
2. The passenger side front wheel is binding. Pulled it apart, brakes are backed all the way off, but she is very tight, needs a bar to turn the wheel over at the studs, can generally move it with the wheel when jacked up. Fairly confident it isn't brakes, and that it didn't do that when I first got it, but not 100% sure. Transmission had a bad reverse gear (teeth chewed off) so I pulled it and replaced it with a rebuilt transmission. Should I tear into and assume I have bad bearings?
3. The 4wd lever doesn't seem to want to come up far enough to release it out of 4wd. Any trick to this? Before I tore it down, the lever would come up and release almost all the tension out of the spring, now it seems compressed down.
Thanks again everyone!
