Aaron wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:53 pm
(Pedantry alert)
"to finally hopefully properly sort."
You may have split the infinitive, but at least you did it in style.
Looking at some of the grammar in my posts makes me cringe. Probably the biggest problem is that while I'm writing them I'm usually juggling three or four other things at the same time, plus getting asked things by the rest of the family or getting sent on various tasks for them too. As such my train of thought regularly gets derailed...While I generally manage to keep vaguely aware of the thread, things like grammar suffer. Plus about 85% of these posts are written on a phone using an on-screen keyboard the size of a postage stamp.
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Just a quick bit of work done today between the showers. With TPA having passed the 1000 mile mark a week or so back a service was on the cards, a few bits of which have already been done. Today it was the turn of the ignition system.
The points and rotor arm were still the original ones which were on the engine from KPL when she was originally dragged out of a field. However as the ignition system just worked I'd left things alone! Now the engine is in a car in regular use though and I've tracked down a source of the right parts it's time to sort that.
New points in and the gap set to the correct 0.4mm.
New rotor arm was then fitted. This is quite a different style to the one which was on here and is a bit taller. Looking at the old distributor cap though it does look as though it was only just touching the lower edge of the contacts in the cap, so I do wonder if the fitted one was correct.
A new distributor cap then finished things off in this department, the proper one having finally escaped from its extended stay in customs limbo.
The eagle eyed among you might spot that the air filter has also been changed. It's only got 1000 miles on it, but having been present during all the painting, filling, sanding painting (repeat several times) I figured it was probably worth changing. Only the finest OEM parts used of course!
I was not really expecting there to be any obvious change to how the engine ran as she's always seemed quite happy. The idle is definitely noticeably smoother though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNydY_N4dnc
Whether there will be any difference when actually driving will need to wait until a test drive happens.
Two jobs coming up in the engine bay. First being that I really need to adjust the fan/dynastart belt tension as the rearmost one is flapping about quite a bit. Before I can do that though I need to figure out where in my disaster area of a garage the impact gun is as everything else I've thrown at the nut on the fan pulley has failed to shift it. The second job is to fabricate a proper battery stay. The bungee cord and zip-tie solution was absolutely fine when TPA was primarily held together by duct tape and hope, but those days are a fair way behind us now and it's *really* bugging me. Shouldn't be difficult to come up with something, just has taken a while for it to get to the top of the to do list.