Today was prep work for the exhaust, turned out I missed some bits and pieces. And since I had not much motivation to get dirty, I emptied the car to get the new carpets in. This also means new wirimg for the second battery (some out lets in the trunk for camping, and some somewhere for a fridge...

Those make for great campers, friend of mine has one just like that!

Me selling this is part of a deal I have my dear better half: you want a new Nikon lense for four figures, you sell of the other stuff that lies around for your car for years. That deal was very reasonable, after all I never managed to install the overdrive for two years now. And I do have diff...

So, turns out I jave two U type temp compensators now. She runs very nice so, idles just fine at 800 revs, no sputter and just smooth without any fine tuning of the carbs being done.

It was rebuilt by someone in the UK, I'd have to contact the eBay seller for details. The only thing missing, as far as I can tell, is the lever and knop, the internals are there as far as I can tell. I didn't dismantle it so. If you need more pictures, let me know. Including the insides, as far...

Hi there, two years ago, I bought a refurbished Fairey Overdrive to be one day fitted to a RRC with a LT95. It sat on a shelf ever since. Hence, I am selling it, Europe wide shipping (EU, UK I'll have to check. Shipping EU is 49 Euro. Price for the Overdrive to be negotiated, as forum members...

I am affraid of this as well... Once I am legally allowed to frive her on public roads again, I have a diff to be installed. I'll ask the garage to clean out the tank, just to be safe. And I'll replace the fuel lines as well when I do the exhaust.

Haha! Success! After blowing some air through the pump bavk to the tank, everything works like a charm! Except the exhaust, which completly gone now... Well, the new one is the shed, so ordering some bits and pieces and my work for next week is set as well!

That's test number one, I hope that's it. I assume the issue is either this or somewhere in the tank. The fuep pump is perfectly working, it is just not getting any fuel. Last time I opened the fuel cap, assuming it might be some pressure / vaccum issue, but no. We'll see this afternoon, I was...

Soooo, today I didn't do anything yet... But the plan is to do two things today amd over the week-end: replace the second temp senstive carb thingy (I'll be damned if I could remember the name of this without looking it up!), the easy bit. And, number two, the trickey bit of figuring out why the...

So, did two thing: temp auto joke (or wjatever those temp senstive thing on Zenith carbs are called) to see if I replaced bith or just one last year. I only did one, which could explain the ignition issues under load. Tried to start her, didn't work. Carbs are taopped off wizh oil, it turns over...

Oh yes, I sprinkled some water on them, evaporated immediately. The engine was perfectly fine so. I think the carbs evaporated more fuel that day than the engine burned. Luckily, fuel was, for us not so much for the locals, dirt cheap. Only time I had in my life, that the outside air will...

If you worried about over-heating, I cannot recommend oil coolers enough. Worked great, even at 50° C, I kidd you not, ambient temp, engine never got even close to over-heating despite running very lean due to boiling carbs. Easy to install as well.

Oh the wiring... First, mine is a hack job from 80s and 90s (trailer, additional headlights, speedometer, ship horn that could be switched of for MOT, Jaguar XK transistor ignition...) and a horrible mess, one that miracuolusly works. Funny so, that I have a grand total of 4 wiring diagramms...

I'll let you now! I did replace the left hand one, yesterday I found a new one when doing some other stuff in the car, so I am not sure I did the right one back the day (or the other way round, don't remember). I am lucky, the car came with both, an official parts catalogue and a workshop...

Timing is good (-ish). It was a longer story, started with the heat issue and loss of power under load and got worse after JLR installed the new camshaft. Took some tinckering, replacing all spark plugs, the ignition lines and adjusting timing. Last time I drove it, months ago, it sputtered only...

Very usefull bit of information, as I'm finally doing some work on mine something to check, sometimes she's sputtering a bit, and I just changed those which solved that particular issue most of the time.

So, for what its worth, I had the same probpem with my Stromberg carbs, extremely pronounced in the Tunesian desert (go figure). Was definietyl heat induced, as the carbs were basically boiling while you could touch the engine block without too much problem. Turned out that it was those temp...

I alternate between 20W50 and, I think, 10W40, depending whether I do the oil change or a JLR garage. The latter use 10W40, so far no noticable difference. Anyway, I change every 10k km or once per year, old engine designs and a 42 year old engine and all that. The big benefit of 20W50 is that...

See, that's why I removed the rear wiper motor, since it was an alibi wiper in the first place! 😁