It drives

Isn't it great. There is absolutely NOTHING to report. Car drives - gives me a good 20 minutes therapy each morning commuting to work, and then again in the afternoon. Nice ride through the forrest. Excellent. I need to adjust the carbs and ignition. Can't really be arsed with ignition - I will megajolt it sometine in the future. So it's max a question of using to minutes on the ignition.

Carbs are completely out of balance and running to rich. I broke the choke-cable holder thingy - so cars is running with a slight choke permanently. Need to adress that one!

Back on the road - life is wonderfull

Been a while since last update - been busy with all kinds of non-triumph stuff. However - there has been progress - car is now back together, brought home and put into daily service. Nice feeling. My clutch release pin operation has been a succes, biting point is now exactly where I want it - right in the middle of the pedal travel. This small mod making the pin adjustable is really a wonderfull thing.

Here is as pic of the modded pin and an old one for comparison


Love the feeling when things work out as planned.

Braking was a new positive experience. I had gone from noname cheapo pads to Mintex 1144. Brakes like a moderne now!!! Again - wonderful.

I took the exhaust of a while bace in order to refit gearbox. I took the opportunity to correct a minor flaw. The exhaust had been blowing - just a very very little bit due to the joint from 2 to 1 not being equal lengths. I chopped a ring of the exhaust. Another problem of the list. Wonderfull.




As a positive sideeffect - the vibration I had round 55 mph has gone as I rotated the propshaft - Wooooonderful.

So all in all - everything is fine. After a good long drive last night I checked the plugs. I really need to get the lambda sensor fitted so I can get some more info on the AFR. Plugs looked like this after 30 miles cosy driving.

Plug 1: (closest to the radiator)


Plug 2


Plug 4


Maybe a slight on the lean side??


Project now is getting the interior trimmed decently. And fix the sidewindows. The are deadstuck in the middle - and for the worse. I suspect some quick and dirty assembly of the doors are to blame. Seems that the winder mech is interfering with the doorskin - making an outward going dent - not so wonderfull.....

Tapping for Megajolt

First - sorry - no pics. When I wanted to get a few pictures I realized (again) that the battery on the camera was flat. That's second time recently this has happened. Better get some fresh batteries soon.

Still - I have had some fair progress. The exhaust prop and engine are all bolted back together fine. I took the inlet manifold of and drilled 4 holes in it for vacuum. First a 2mm pilot hole. Then a 4,2 mm hole and finally tapping for 5mm thread. Went quite smooth was OK result. I have had some problems with the choke sticking. It is a SU1.5. It has been converted from waxstat jets to proper jets. Problem is (I think) that the links used to convert isn't all perfect and creates a bit of tension. Morten and I tried messing with the links to see if we could release a bit of he tension. After quite a bit of fiddling the choke got better - not perfect - but better. Carbs went back on - all nuts on the manifold studs were tightened.

I found out I had forgot to put the radiator overflow bottle back on when I put the radiator in. Bit of a problem as the radiator has to be tilted a bit to get to the bolt where the overflowbottle-bracket attaches. So - undo 6 radiator bolts - overfowbracket in. Tighten bolts again. Mission accomplished.

Finally I put in a very neat bit of wire harness that The Mad Welder had made for me. I am converting from dynamo to generator plus a few other thing. So I needed a new harness for the generator, the oilpan temperature and halogenlights. But it was made perfect and very easy to fit. Thanks Morten

Enough for this time. Next time I get to spend a bit of time with the car I will try and start it.

A few steps forward again

After a few setbacks thng are progressing again

Gearbox has been bolted back on the engine. I har to take prop ang exhaust off to get to the gearbox - and now the exhaust wqs off I used the opportunity to get a few things right. The joint from 2 to 1 was never really good as one pipe waqs a bit longer than the other. I pulled the manifold and made a cut. Now lengths are perfect. I also made another bracket to hang the exhaust by on the differential. It was onky attached on one side making the two exits not sitting even.

Exhaust and prop are now back on - and theoretically I should be out enjoying the fine weather. Ahem - now everything waqs off I couldn't resist taking inlet manifold off in order to tap holes for the megajolt vaacum takeoffs. It needs four holes tapped.

I was going in circles round this job last night doing all kinds of other stuff. Perhaps I get a chance later this weekend. I don't really like the thought of messing up having the takeoffs looking weird pointing in all directions. I have t get the drill and tap entering manifold at exactly same angle. Better not rush this job.

Also need to work a bit on the choke. It is sticking. A bit of fettling with grid 1000 on the jet should help - hopefully....

Thats it for now