My Brother-in-law Jaimen brought down a new distributor from Townsville on the weekend, so Saturday we got to work on getting this thing started. The new distributor was on pretty quickly. Backed her down the driveway, crank it over and... damnit. It's doing exactly the same thing as last weekend. Just firing on one cylinder. We soon realised that some cylinders had no compression and put this down to incorrect lash adjustment. So in not time, we readjusted the lash and she fired up... Certainly running rough, but we're definitely closer. Here's a video of it.
After starting it up a few times the starter motor gave up! We pulled apart the starter motor and discovered one of the plastic brush supports had given way and chewed up the internals. Doh! No surprise really. This starter motor hasn't been used in at least 12 years and god knows when it was last rebuilt. The moral of the story... don't re-use old parts without reconditioning them.. Learning the hard way.
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