hunted's avenger

[hunted]

cleaned up the carbs today, they are actually in really good nick



does anyone have a spare bung from the bottom of the fuel bowl I could have? am missing both of them, but have one from a spare carb but need one more.

also painted the block and head today, just need to paint rocker cover (need to find a star socket to get the bolts off first haha). Then will get a new set of plugs, new leads, new oil filter, give it a oil change and then I think it will be ready to drop in (when I actually get around to it)



need to rig up a cable accelerator to run the twin carbs, so will either stick the motor in and get it running on the current carb thats on the 1300 (that way I know it works) and then switch to the twins, or get the cable sorted at the same time i drop the motor in

[avengertiger]

a 7 or 8mm ring spanner should get the rocker cover bolts out if they arent stripped they usually are buggered.cant remeber the size of hand its around that though

[hunted]

well the avenger has been nothing but trouble lately....lost a good chuck of motivation to work on it. carb has been playing up like no bodies buisness. tried my spare, had a fuel leak, fixed it, has another one, so back to the original carb which only works half as well as it should (explains why the car is so god damn slow). has gained a bad vibration at 65-85km, am 99% sure its fucked UJ's on the driveshaft. half of the diff mount bushes are buggerd, diff jumps and knocks about.

so need to drop some coin into getting new bushes and rebuilding the UJs. not a huge amount but its just a pain

hopefully once I get the wheels on it will give me motivation

[hunted]

so pulled the rear end to bits to inspect all the bushes and shit. didnt find anything majorly fucked but have some new bushes on the way anyway. rear d/shaft UJ was farily graunchy so orderd a new one of those as well.

then I decided it would be rude not to see how it sits while the springs were out.......



then I realised I hadnt put the d/shaft back in and the gearbox was doing wees all over the floor....woops. can I just top it up/fill it up through the shifter  hole? or will I have to get intimate and fill it from the underside?

[hunted]

hey mate, you should start your own thread under members gallery and put these pics in it. this thread is just for me to post things, and you can talk about them in my discussion thread

[hunted]

long story short, got upgraded from some shitty hankooks to some lush toyo proxes for only 10buks extra, ended up at $123 a pop fitted and balanced. so chucked them on this morning. needs a bit more low, bout 40mm or so. cut front bumps in half and theres f all travel left so that could be interesting....back will be easy, plenty of room and plenty of bump stop to cut off. also painted rocker cover.

current sits liek this, has  no oil in the gbox due to me being a muppet







rear tyres rubbed when I had no springs in my only just, so a bit of lip vs hammer action will solve that.

[hunted]

[hunted]

ta da!

[hunted]

quick update, not ont he car though haha, went to the tip shop today and got a table and some shelves for 15 buks. tidied up the garage and now have space! can even get the middys car in there.




on the car front, still having carb issues, should be sorted for nats. it drives, just misses and coughs at times so il be there regardless.

[hunted]

managed to get an actual screw in cap for my carb to replace the shit house rubber bung that was stopping the piston lifting all the way. runs a lot sweeter now.

ALTHOUGH, small speed bump in my quest for twin SU carbs, they have mirrored stud patterns on the two carbs so one wont bolt up to the manifold (as twin strombergs run the same stud pattern for each carb). tis a way off running twins anyway (have to put motor in first) so no biggy

[hunted]

Right, have digged deeper into the misfire I was getting. slapped on another carb, got it running, still random misfire. Upon further prodding, Joe/goat/flange and myself foudn that the number 3 cylinder wasnt firing at idle but seemed to fire once the engine was doing a few revs. so we figured the mis was this cylinder dropping out/firing out the carb (it sounds like tis coming out the carb). new plugs, different leads, different cap, didnt make any difference.

so tonights job is to check compression (assuming repco has a cheap one when I go there at lunch), check the tappets, and see if that helps. we figured its likely the inlet valve is fucked.

if that doesnt fix it, then the 1600 will be getting fast tracked into the engine bay.

[hunted]

well its official, this is no longer in my ownership. I have urged the new owner to come say hi on here and Im sure he will.

has been placed by something bigger, redder and shinier haha