Found an air leak on the carb, fixing that instantly cured the hesitation / stuttering / bogging. I’m assuming the idle had been adjusted to compensate because it idled fine, it was just a bit of a pain when you wanted to start driving, I was thrashing it when pulling away to make sure it wouldn’t bog down.
Still a bit of twiddling to do, but it’s so much more pleasant to drive, far more tractable.
As well as that I’ve fitted some new plugs, a new ignition coil, fitted electronic ignition to the distributor to get rid of the condenser / points setup, put a new alternator belt on. All as preventative maintenance, all pretty cheap and all quick and easy to do.
The only fix so far was to fashion up a new engine stabiliser bush out of some spare polyurethane as the rubber one in there was weak and kept popping out.
I’ve fitted warm white led front sidelights, rear indicators and tail lights. Rewired the offside reversing light to become the fog light and fitted a red led bulb.
On the outside I’ve fitted a new pair of wing mirrors as one had a drooping issue, Painted the tailpipe, heatgunned the bumper plastics and had a little play with a polisher on a few panels. It won’t ever be perfect but pretty sure I can make a decent improvement without having to spend too much time on it.
Managed about 250 miles over the past week and really enjoying it.
Small supermini shopping car on 17s, 4 door family saloon rolling in 13s
Bushy
Looks good on camera / from a distance
Mirrors
Looks much better without the horrible fog light
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