Ade70 wrote:Hey Dave looking good man, now I know you are abit of a wizz with wires BUT, do you think that positive wire from the battery is big enough? you know the Luton lads, we like to do things about right and from experience we found we needed to use a bigger wire when using a battery in the boot.................
After thinking about this I decided to replace the battery cable.
I noticed that the connector I made at the bulkhead was getting very hot when cranking. I am not sure it it was this connection at fault because when replacing the cable I found it was a bit loose on the starter too.
So to be 100% sure I fitted a fatter and better quality cable and passed it directly from the battery to the starter. Then used another cable from the starter to that bulkhead fitting I made.
That seems to work better.
I also finished breaking in the camshaft at the weekend. It seems to have gone OK.
After, while the engine was still hot, I checked and adjusted the valve lash. It only needed a very minor tightning from where I had guessed the lash should be when cold.
The last time I tried to break in the camshaft the engine had ran very lean and damaged the finish on the ceramic headers. Pity that.
It turned out I had "guessed" the correct float level on the center carb way too low. It was leaning the mixture out.
My back was aching after doing the lash settings so had to stop. The next job is to set the timing exactly and see if I can get the idle nice.
I think i will wire up the LM-1 meter so I can monitor the air/fuel mixture while I am doing this.
But to wire up the meter I first need to wire up the cigar lighter so I have something to plug into!
The wiring for this is not included in the Painless kit so I have some 8A wire to fit to it.