:: Tuesday, 1 April 2025 ::
Is that April already? The weather has been really good, so there has been gardening and other outside work to be done, so it's very handy that both TVRs are now here in my home garage, where I can nip out for a few minutes for a bit of therapy.
Last night's therapy was to remove the Vixen's carburettor and replace the manifold gaskets, to try to cure a suspected air leak that was causing uneven running and a misfire / flat spot when accelerating on low throttle openings. Well today I got a chance to try it out - and it seems to havc worked! It starts better, and definitely runs much better while it's warming up on choke - it was surging and stalling before. Once it has warmed up, idle speed is more even.
On the road, it's much easier to pull away from a stop - you had to rev it a fair bit to prevent it bogging down, and it had no pulling power in higher gears, but now it seems much smoother.
A bit of old skool diagnosis and repair, on the Ford crossflow engine of my mispent youth, learned at my father's side. No plug-in computers, no diagnostic machine, no emissions equipment, just ears and half a brain (and even that's maybe being optimistic). There's also no certainty that you've got it fixed, but that's part of the ancient game!
I'm a happy pixie (well, happier, let's not get too excited)!
I also had a phone chat with Dave about our excursion to the TVR Car Club's season opener event this weekend. The plan is: meet at 9am on Saturday. The rest of the "plan" TBC in stages, starting at around 9.05 on Saturday, when we'll all work out the first leg of our journey to a suitable breakfast / lunch stop. Stage 2 of the plan TBC at that point. As you can see, meticulous attention to detail is key.
He also tells me that he has the engine back in his Griffith, although it has still to be properly mounted and the ancillaries fitted. Good progress!
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