Well, after several months off the road and with a new refurbished cylinder head fitted, new spark plugs, a new distributor and a new alternator, this was the moment of truth. Would it finally start? Had I done everything right, remembered to connect all the hoses and wired up all the electricals correctly? Take a look;
Success! After a bit of tweaking the car ran perfectly and idled nicely… at least, it worked for a couple of days!
With no warning, the fuel pump failed. Starting to think either myself or the car has been cursed at some-point.
After another breakdown and eager to have the car running again after so long, I had the car recovered by a local garage who replaced the SU fuel pump with this modern american pump – I’m not overly fond of this pump and may revert to an SU one, as this one can be unreasonably loud at times. I’m used to the odd clunk noise of the points from the SU pump, but this pump never stops making noise.
For the time being the car is running nicely.
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