Due to a severe lack of holiday entitlement in my current position, I find myself at my desk for two days
Due to a (currently undiagnosed) complete lack of starting action on the part of the Aero, I came to work this morning in the 914
As it turns out, it wasn't as bad in the terrible conditions as I'd thought it might be, sans heater, and the roads were all but empty, which meant I was able to give the car a bit of an italian tune-up, once it had warmed through (the engine, not the interior), and that dealt quite nicely with the previous grumbling hesitation (oily plug?), so that the engine response in the final part of the journey was as good as I've had it.
And it looks like my push rod tube and seals replacement went well, as did the subsequent valve adjustments (only actually required on one cylinder) and installation of new (to me) covers and gaskets; as I seem to have a largely leak-free engine! It still cooked a little oil when I parked it, but I think that's just what has collected (pooled) on the heat-exchangers previously.
The carb-rebuilds has had to wait, as I needed them back on the car to make it go (glad I hadn't started to strip them down yet!), but just cleaning and re-fitting the carb-to-manifold gaskets seems to have removed much of the popping and back-firing that was going on, so I think most of the air-leaking was from them.
Fuel gauge has stopped working though...
Happy New Year.
Carl
