Chris Williams' Journal

I've put some miles on the car since the fix and all is going well -ish.

I checked the head torque twice and I've re-checked the valve clearances. They are moving around and the valve train is still quite noisy. I'm not particularly concerned about the noise - better that way than too tight.

I spent some time on the tune and found that it was horribly advanced. I dialled it back to about 15deg at idle and I found that idle speed dropped dramatically. It's now more in a suitable range just below 1000k.

It seems to run well and the points gap and the dwell checked out spot on. The points resistance is showing that it could be better and there is an issue with the low voltage wiring in the distributer. I'll replace the points and see if I can get that a bit better.

I went in and replaced the broken adjuster on #8 valve with a good old one and did a rough check on the valve clearances again. After that Sharon and I took the car for a long ride down to Newport on the northern beaches of Sydney. Great day and apart from a bit of a rattle in the valve train all went well.



I need to revisit the valve clearances and check the head torque again but at this stage all is well.