Well the trip home was quite an adventure. The Opal fuel has certainly caused a few issues with the Carby’s and they played most of the way home. At one point I could only get full throttle and shirl was screaming along at 110km.
As mentioned before we had some trouble about 60km outside of Marla SA http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&h…,19.248047&z=6
The new points I picked up in Alice Springs broke!
I was rather stressed and I didn’t even think about replacing the points, we flagged down a car and asked them to send back a tow truck - in the end we only had to wait about 90 minutes before Shirl was picked up. At least we had an awesome sunset to watch as we waited for the tow truck.
At this point we were unsure of the problem, nothing we could do but wait till the morning. We were quite relieved to here that it was the points, no points in Marla so we put the old points back in and headed to Coober Pedy - a 220km trip down the road.
Once in Coober pedy we picked up three sets of points (just to be sure) and then looked around a little more - we really liked Coober Pedy.
Ian
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1 DonYan // Aug 11, 2008 at 4:07 am
it seems the litle bit of lithium grease needed on the distributor cam, was not put there. Like they worked dry! only the size of a match head: don’t overlub…any time somebody else puts points in my customers vehicles, I have to assist them on the road: same problem since the sixties! NO GREASE on the dist. cam. Usually they just close toguether and no spark, after e few kilometers: the broken plastic seems like forcing them with the screwdriver…
2 DonYan // Aug 11, 2008 at 7:15 am
and condensers, you can file points, but condenser is sealed! never forguet the condenser…or points burn!
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