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ok colin il keep soaking it in releasing fluid, is there a better one than wd40? i didnt really want the hassle of removing it, ive damaged the flats all ready but im not to bothered about that, thanks for your advice :)
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hi colin the valve in the heater matrix must have scaled up over the years and is stuck shut, ive been giving it some heat with a small blow torch and put some industrial descaler in the matrix but it wont budge theres not much to get a spanner or grips on either, as you look at the valve from under the dash board ive been trying to turn it clockwise is this the right way to open it? ive reckon ive spent about 6 hours so far trying to move it and decided to try and find another matrix instead
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ok went to the essex club meet last week Radders introduced me to the guys at the hurdle makers arms, i got some good advice from Davemate, Scrapman, Radders, cant remember all the names but there a friendly bunch, the engine in my car was running pretty rough and lacked power didnt pull well at all, the following Saturday i gave it a compression test the dry test gave 100 psi on all six cylinders the wet test varied between 140 psi and 160 psi but its difficult to put the same amount of oil down each cylinder so this could account for the different results on the wet test,and i tested each cylinder with the other five spark plugs still in place may be i should have took all the spark plugs out? next i took the dash pots off the su carbs the jets were flush with the carb bridges as Davemate said they should be but the pistons and dash pots were bunged up with dirt i cleaned them up with carb cleaner took it for a blast up the A130 it now drives like a different car so thanks guys. also im after a heater matrix if any ones got one mines nackered
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thanks again alec is there a special gallery area on the forum where members put up photoes of there cars i cant seem to find one
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good point Alec but i disconnected the vacuum tube but i didnt plug the connection on the inlet manifold should i have?
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ok dave thanks
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yep i reckon your right willows40 how do i time it now
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thanks dazzer i was right then with the timeing marks didnt no you could buy a timing light that shows degrees on it :)
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hi all my car just doesnt have any go in it, its a 2500 with electronic ignition, all though all the spark plugs are just the right colour and the previous owner told me the su carbs had been rebuilt with new needles, so to day i dug out my old strobe light to try and time the ignition no luck though, i presume looking from the front of the car the 8 degree mark before tdc is two marks to the left or two marks anti clockwise am i right on this point? when i first put the strobe light at 800 rpm the tdc mark was well off the scale anti clock wise, i tried setting it at a few different marks but it made no difference, all i did find was the vacuum advance works ok, any ideas am i doing some thing completely wrong?