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 !
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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 !!
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.
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
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!
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:
