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That would also work!

Soooooooooo,

I've kinda half sussed my fueling issue out.

The main one - and its a big un - is that cars run on fuel. When there's is none in the tank, they don't run!

Turns out the fuel gauge is either faulty, or looking at the state of the wiring, its grounded out and showing a nice healthy amount on the gauge whereas there isn't a nice healthy amount in the tank.


The second issue it the mess of fuel pumps I seem to have. As far as I can work out this '62 model came with a single fuel pump and used a tank mounted solenoid to switch betwix the norm and reserve pickups.

I appear to have one working pump fitted and pulling from the normal pickup and a non working pump fitted, also pulling from the normal pickup and a whole host of random pipes and t-pieces to make this non functioning system even more non functioning!


Plans are to pull out both pumps and make a mount for the single pump as per original. Then i'll pull the solenoid and pickups from the tank and test if it is working or not. If it is, happy days, if it isn't then i shall be sacking the solenoid off and plumbing in the 'reserve' pickup so i can utilize all of the fuel in the tank...

Ah, I'll have a look at doing that then Dez, cheers



Thanks Colin, always good to learn all the little bits!

Quick little update, very dull, but I like to look back at what I've done.

Last night I gave the engine a good once over, making sure everything was set just right.

I started off in here to set the valve clearances, well, half of them.



The engine has a strange setup, the inlet valves are on top as per usual but the exhaust valves are angled down the side of the cylinders with the pistons having a weird triangular shape.



Next up I set the points gap and the timing, everything seemed fine. I then noticed the wsm mentioned altering the Octane selector on the dizzy, wtf is that? Bit of digging around and it transpires the advance/retard had a knob on it to do fine adjustments for different fuel levels. This was well out, almost 2cm infact. I reset this to spec then had to set the timing again.

Next up was the carb and here's where the night took a downturn. I decided to set it back to factory spec and work from there. It was here i noticed that the mixture screw was seized and whilst i was there I noticed the top of the float bowl was loose and also the glass filter bowl has a cm of sediment in it. I cleaned it out and turned the ignition on, expecting the tiny bowl to fill in seconds, instead it took about a minute to fill sporadically squirting 5mm of fuel in every 3-5 seconds.

This isn't right, I read that the pump should fill a pint glass in 30-60 seconds. I believe I've found the issue with the lumpy running. If I make sure the float bowl is full she'll run like clockwork for 30 odd seconds before returning to running rough, so it makes sense.

I was cold by now, a tennis shoe isn't a good garage show in-case you're wondering, so I went indoors. Hopefully i'll be back out tonight to figure out why the pump is so weak and also to remove the carb for a rebuild.

I can't wait to get the engine up to scratch, then the fun can start with the altitude adjustments


That is all...

She's not to bad, wings are pretty grotty.


I'll be spending a lot of time on the engine first I think, needs a complete going through tuning wise and i'm not happy with the oil pressure, I read that over the years the mesh strainer can block so I guess my first port of call is to whip the sump off!

I love it Liam mate, hope you feel the same about the Herald.


I'm in the process of writing a - long - list of things to do over winter. Least that's what I'm telling the missus, I'm mainly sitting in the back for hours, thinking I need a cigar and taking in the joy of it...

Err, explain!!!

Tempting fate maybe, but if all goes well this will be mine by the weekend