It is now midnight on Wednesday and I have just started Saskia for the first time in 2 months! The carb gaskets arrived today so I refitted the carbs and connect up the ancilliaries, cranked the engine for a couple minutes and she roared into life! The engine sounded surprisingly healthy too, at 1500rpm there was a nice purr.
I was quite shocked that she actually started and that I had remembered to connect everything up, I have got a bit pessimistic with that little car of mine of late... When I switched the engine off there was a bit of smoke rising from it but I am guessing this is just excess chemicals (carb cleaner, gunk etc) getting burnt off. I haven't driven anywhere yet as I need to get the cooling system professionally flushed out. I was going to do this myself, but I want to make sure that it is done properly as it is very silted up with rust. This will hopefully get done on Friday. I do have one question - how does the oil get up to the rockers, I can't figure this out? I would also like to give my heartfelt thanks to ALL listers who helped me out here, I couldn't have done it without you all. I am constantly amazed by the quality and number of responses that I get to even trivial questions. Maintaining classic cars must have been a lot harder before the advent of the internet and e-mail. off to bed now, cheers all, John HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
