D1RTY6's C331 Gloria

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classicdat wrote:Hey Nathan not wanting to tell you how to suck eggs, wish someone had warned me on occations like before the circlip went flying :D There is a wee spacer on the pivot of the float that sits up against the glass, watch it doesn't fall out as you remove the glass.
Any advice is welcome advice! Will be extra careful
Datto_610 wrote:I have a coil from a L20e you can try?

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Cheers, excuse my ignorance but will there be any noticeable difference between the 2 dizzys? I used to use this coil to run my electronic dizzy when it was the L20E and it ran like a champ
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No idea sorry!

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Datto_610 wrote:No idea sorry!

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Allgood,

So i have corrected the float level, still running like a sack of crap........

its odd it idles nicely, revs nicely 1st gear foot down is allright but as soon as you flick it to second and give it a bit of gas it fucks out
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Get a new fuel pump and New fuel filters. Those old pumps are well past their used by, my green one did the same thing and will be why the gloat level was low. They still pump but not enough.
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^What he said.
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brocky41 wrote:Get a new fuel pump and New fuel filters. Those old pumps are well past their used by, my green one did the same thing and will be why the gloat level was low. They still pump but not enough.
any recommendations?
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I got mine from appco, cough cough, it bolted in the factory location it's a piston type fuel pump and get 2 plastic inline filter while your at it one for before and one for after the pump
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So i had a semi successful weekend

Brought a new pump chucked it in and you i instantly noticed the difference

Took it for a drive and ran like it did when i was running the EFI pump so was pretty happy, then it randomly died while driving, after much discussion i came to the conclusion there may be something in the tank as it only does it very occasionally and if you give swing the car from side to side slosh the petrol in the tank around it goes away and its sweet again,

It still seems to be lacking power at the top end of the revs aswell but i think that maybe more down to tuning so i think i will have to get Vaughan to have a look at it next pay day

Its also starting to heat up more than it used to/i think it should, gets to about half while just causally driving, doesn't seem to have a thermostat in it so i'm hoping that could be the cause as i'm very paranoid of blowing ANOTHER head gasket!

Starting to iron out all these little issues, feels like im finally starting to get some where

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Great to hear the progress Nathan, the heating thing is a bit of a worry, have you changed anything, other than the Gasket, since you had the temp running lower? No thermostat should see the temp run lower.
Have you had the Radiator cleaned at all?
Hope this is all good for Labour weekend and the Nats :P
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classicdat wrote:Great to hear the progress Nathan, the heating thing is a bit of a worry, have you changed anything, other than the Gasket, since you had the temp running lower? No thermostat should see the temp run lower.
Have you had the Radiator cleaned at all?
Hope this is all good for Labour weekend and the Nats :P
Yea the heating up is worrying me :?

I ran a radiator flush through it in the weekend, didn't seem to change much

maybe a case of needing to get the radiator looked at/professionally flushed

I'm still optimistic about labour weekend/Nats but my optimism is diminishing slowly with the thought of going up hills and the engine temperature rising.


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