I can’t believe it, but I think the rings have failed on Jejy. She’s not too bad at just-off-idle, but at the moment, you floor it to go somewhere and you get that blue-haze behind. I can’t believe it because the frigging rings failed on the Viva too…
Kathryn’s DAF (Vixy) was being a bit of a bugger to start; Kathryn got stuck at school ‘cos she wouldnae go, so I went down there and using many years of getting unhappy engines going got her running. Once she was going she was fine, so I’m going to go set the idle on her – of course, I’ve been waiting on an answer on this… basically the Autodata book is really unclear on how to set the timing (perhaps because they’re covering 2 different engines (+ a second variant) in 2 cars in 2 short paragraphs, and two diagrams, which are both different than my cars).
Unfortunately no answer is forthcoming, however I think I was right the first time, she should be set 5° ATDC (after top dead centre); which is not where I set her. I think the mixture and timing are vastly out and I’ve compensated for one – with the other – which is why she’s not really running ideally.
I’m contemplating options with DAF-the-first (Jejy), because there’s various solutions to the Rings issue – dependent on time, money, etc.
At any rate, I need to get outside, I’ve been sat watching ‘The Wire’* all morning, and they’ve possibly just killed off one of my favourite characters, which is lousy, since I now have to go out and admit that the sun isn’t coming out and I’ll have to fix the car in the cold and grey day that’s going on. Yesterday it was lovely. Why not today too? Bah.
* As a side point, the thing I like about The Wire, so far, or one of the things, is that the lesbian character is just lesbian; it’s not a big issue. She’s got a female partner, who you occasionally see, and just like the other characters you get snapshots of her life outside work; but it’s not some big thing, and it’s not the be-all-and-end-all of the character. More please.
