The plan was to take this to Brooklands on Saturday so I booked the mot for 3pm today.
1pm today and the fluids were all in and I was ready to start it. Can't believe that the last time I tried that was over six months ago
.
Anyway, turned the key and nothing
I had put the wrong wire to the starter motor solenoid
. Try again and engine spins beautifully but won't fire
no fuel in the filter. I figured the fuel pump would be fine once the system was primed so I took off the return pipe and used the airline to blow into the tank, almost straight away the fuel filter filled up and I was ready to try again.
This time it fired a couple of times just before the carb overflowed with fuel
. I figured the float needle had seized up from kicking around doing nothing for so long, so off came the top of the carb and sure enough, seized needle. By the time I'd sorted this I had half an hour left before I had to leave for the mot station, so I was very pleased to have it finally burst in to life
All that was now left to do was fit the front bumper, grille, front lights, air filter and spare wheel. No time to set the timing or carb so off I went hoping the engine tune was close enough to pass the emissions.
4pm, one mot certificate
, so glad I didn't give up.
Tomorrow will be mostly cosmetics, then it will have to do. After Brooklands I will still have a few more jobs to do but as these don't fall under the heading of this thread I'd better start a fresh 'Members motors' one for everything else.
