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I agree with everything James said. He also did an awesome job of organising the unorganisable rabble that we are. Jack’s Spanish was really useful and probably helped by the fact that he learned his Spanish in South America which coupled with his swarthy appearance gave him an “Escobarian” air whic...

Fantastic stuff Jonathan - thanks for sharing. Also love that JFK quote

Yep that's tomorrow's job....

Nice

Done - thanks for sorting

Yes that’s what is consoling me as well. Like I said I’m not going to have a chance to get on with it until the weekend but I just popped out and took a pic of the adjusters Right hand bank are all pretty level But the left hand exhaust ones, not so much https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240528/f8e...

Fair point

I did but that was on number 3 IIRC

Had a family week-end so won't get onto it again until the coming weekend

Got a rennline adjuster tool on the way as well

Thanks Jason - That sounds like my symptoms but I have swapped out the plug on the cylinder that was cold

Ok so when I did the tappets when the engine was out I was in a quandary about finding TDC. I’ve got the Z1 mark on my pulley so that’s fine it’s just that I can’t easily tell if it’s on the compression or exhaust stroke I don’t have a distributor any more so using the position of the rotor arm is a...

Thanks Tim. However they actually are new spark plugs. That soot is after two trips of about 5 miles.

Out of interest what hotter plugs did you switch to?

Now the deadline for the Pyrenees holiday has passed I’m enjoying this analysis process much more

Thanks - they are both interesting thoughts and things that I can check on I think the HT leads are OK. They are perhaps 10 years old and seem to be good quality and in good condition. They are also producing spark to the spark tester I agree that if we’ve got fuel before the injector and spark in t...

Thanks - might leave that until tomorrow (though I’m getting better at removing the fuel rails now) I”m not sure it’s that whole bank - that wouldn’t explain why number 2 was 20 degrees cooler than 1 and 3 - to me that would be more of an indication that 2 isn’t firing but 1 and 3 are and the cooler...

Bootsy wrote:Yes, put some fuel in it for sure (glad to have been of help)

Thanks mate. Good to know I’m in the hands of experts here.