This is the last thing I should be spending energy on given the other wagon is not finished and we have a van to build before the nationals next year….
Anyway…. there is an event coming up at the end of August my HAMBster mate Brian has talked me into trying to go to with him. He runs his hamster there but I’m not keen on getting mine dirty and then having to spend time I don’t have cleaning it after so I don’t piss the track officials of next time I can make the strip. This event lines up with work and I haven’t done anything car related for a while so figured I’d try get Eddie going for it.
A morning was spent going over him. Fuel pump was missing, dizzy cap on the electronic ignition was off so threw my spare fuel pump from the hambster on, out the cap back on, pulled the plugs, squirted some cat piss in the bores and wound it over by hand…
With everything seemingly ok I hooked a battery up and then waited to see what caught fire. Thankfully nothing, a few signs of life with the oil pressure idiot light, headlights and high beams working.
Hit the starter and he reluctantly cranked over, built enough oil pressure for the light to go out and again no smoke escaping from anywhere. Rig up a small Jerry can, tip some fuel in the carb which then proceeded straight back out of the accelerator pump. Decide to proceed, get a bit of a stutter but decide the carby needs a kit and a bit of work and I don’t want to be spending money on this thing or the reasons mentioned above.
Having the full driveline out of the wagon in the shed I decided to rip the unkown condition big block out and go back to the known (albeit a bit tired) condition small block.
Tim had a few rims I grabbed off him. So gave them a bit of a tidy up (they didn’t need much) and fitted some new shoes.
Plan for now to get the grey in, get it running and driving, go through the brakes, steering and suspension so it’s not a pure death trap and use it as a dirt drag, mud run etc type car I don’t have to worry about too much and have some fun in or have to spend too much money on.
A set of HR rims to suit the HR front end and a pair of 13x7 fatties. Thanks Tim.
Newish tyres I had lying around for the caravan (now going 14” HQ to match the wagon) and the cheapest pair of 205/60r14 fatties for the rear.
I can actually push it in and out of the shed now without wanting to burn it.
Big block out. Will pull this apart another day and see if it suits my future plans (after the boss gets her caravan she has been waiting patiently for)
Small block in. Some idiot (me) put the spigot bush in backwards when I did the clutch in the FB…. Will pull it back out when I next get a day off, sort the spigot bush, prob pull the gearbox and put it all back in as one.
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then I definitely think that Eddie is savable mate.
