Starting to do more work to tart the BB up - resplendent with freshly painted wheels using Halfrauds Ford Ivory.......whilst nobody unfortunately seems to have the correct Citroen Beige, Rover Sandlewood Beige is a very close match.

i use Wilkinsons antique white gloss

Some pics of putting new rings in BB to stop it burning oil - old ones looked OK but the tops of the pistons were very rough with carbon - took 3 hours to get from complete to new rings on and barrels back on before bad light stopped play...

Looks like it could use a dose of waxoyl or similar - especially in the lower bulkhead area!

Interesting problem today - I had changed the primary jet at the weekend, thinking it was a larger one, on Kens advice. Wrong...it was smaller and ran like a bag of shite. So today I puts the old one back in, after cleaning jets on the secondary as well and adjusted the floats as too high. Unfortunately, I knocked one of the floats off and had to weld the plastic it back on with the old hot knife trick. Put it back together and off I goes for a drive. Pulls OK, if not better than ever, then it starts stuttering going around a corner and then starts to hiccup and then stops. Bollox! Anyway stops, opens up the bonnet and WTF there is petrol pouring out of the bottom of the manifold onto a very hot engine! I whips the air pipe off the top of the carb and the chokes are full of fuel - very strange...so I opens up the accelerator and drops the fuel out and then close it again and before my eyes they fill up again! It seems that the carb is syphoning the fuel and then pushing it out the dump hole in the manifold. So manages to hobble the way home and takes the top off the carb and the float had fallen off the arm so the chambers are overfilled. Did a proper job on the float this time but that was very worrying..

21-24 carb, not the 18-26 which was being discussed in another thread?

If it had a 120 primary ex-works, a 125 is the correct replacement...

ken.

Hey Ken - the primary is already .125 - when I re-adjusted the floats the second time around, after welding the float in place properly, it runs fine on the primary but has started stuttering again on 2nd choke - its very frustrating!

Well..MOT time is upon BB again - we have done about 2000miles this year so I wasnt really thinking too much would be wrong, so took it up to Richard Daltons this am (passing a nice DS with a reg OUI 73, anyone know it?) and begger me - passed with NO ADVISORIES! WOO HOO
I also have a rather neat 0-60 programme on my Android phone that showed on the flat it does it in 28 secs - not bad for a 35 year old car! Guess the new rings have worked well in now......

Out for a thrash today.....

Well BB got us safely to Little Haven in South Wales on Friday - must admit my wife must love me if she allowed us to go in this rather than my Merc! Only one - no actually two - problems - half way there, just on the A44 going west towards Aberystwyth and before Devils Bridge, starts stuttering and not pulling at all well. Anyway gets so bad I stop and whip the top of the carb off and there appears to be small globules of liquid under the petrol in the float chambers which I can only assume is water - very strange. Soaked it all up with kitchen roll and cleaned the jets with a safety pin and it then runs fine. 2nd problem is today when we are out at Pembroke when it starts making a loud blowing exhaust noise - it had a small hole in the 36 year old cross box which I had patched so thought this may have come off but no - really weird thing the nearside clamp from exchanger to cross box has completely disappeared - well strange - thankfully a local motor factors can get one tomorrow for all of £2.69!