And some more happy snaps, I'm not to good at this system you guys have here... Sorry!

Didn't get much done today as I was quite annoyed at the great paint match supercheap gave me -_- ... Just want to re illiterate that I know I'm not doing everything by the book, I'm giving the van a quick touch up so it looks ok from a few meters back and trying to get her on the road....

Took the plunge and I upgraded my pretty stuffed dizzy for a new electric one, I also got a new coil while I was at it and I ran a new switched wire too. I couldn't get it started for a while but the problem was an easy fix. It turned out that the plugs were all blocked up, found this out when I was trying to test the spark. So all I need to do now I get my hands on a timing light then I can start to look at giving the carb a tune. The list for road worthy is getting smaller by the week, which is a great thing... Hoping to get it on the road by the Easter weekend, might be able to go to camp in it if I'm lucky!

Also fixed up a little rust and put a quick lick of paint on her

I cannot get the progress pics of inside this door to upload.... I'll see if it will want to work for me tomorrow though because I did find a little rust and I did borrow a wielder to fix it... And got bored so I fixed some of the bad paint match... I've also done all the painting that needed to be done so she can be made water proof... I need some help to finding what the seal between the left front door thats between the window and door on the outside is called and I'm also having trouble finding one too as I really need it!

I think the rubber your talking about is called weather strip, look up scotts old auto rubber an aussie mob with a great range

Just a little update... I've got the van idling correctly but to get it to rev I need to work the accelerator a bit. I've noticed as the revs increase so do the little bubbles increase in between the exhaust ports 2 and 3 and between the extractors at this point. My father has told me to check if the exhaust is blocked and thats what I'll do this afternoon. Also I've borrowed a timing light to set the timing up but it wont work! I set it up on the falcon and it worked. I've changed the leads with no luck... Also my battery ran flat after running the van for a while and there was not much voltage change from off and on so I'm going to inspect the alternator. All in all nothings gone to plan, probably dude to my in experience with the escort but the important thing is I'm learning! And since its taking so long to get back on the road I'm going to do a few more things like new water pump and hoses, new front end bushes and I'm going to give it a quick shed paint job once its on the road since I own a compressor and air guns from my xf falcon project a few years ago. I'm going to do the van justice and maybe one day she will be up to show spec! Anyway thanks for reading, if you have any tips for me feel free to let me know!
 
Cheers Andrew.

So I got a few new things for the esky today, two new front tires (rears still are good) and from new front control arms... Still haven't gotten around to ordering the tie rods yet hahaha... I'll hopefully fit the control arms this weekend and HOPEFULLY get the engine running right! The list is slowly getting smaller!

So life has gotten in the way of me working on the escort lately but this weekend I got a bit done!!! I fitted the head back on and put a new vrs kit through the top end. Was as hard as I thought it would be, first time I've done a head on my own. Only took a smidge over 2 hours from no head to starting it... I feel the car runs slightly better, but it could be in my head hahaha... I've continued my trouble shooting and I may have found the issue to the really poor running, I think I'm missing the idle mixture screw (there is a picture uploaded). This may be the reason I'm having my dramas... Also the engine has trouble turning over after being started one, seems like the compression has doubled, thinking it may be due to being over fuelled leading to the increase in compression. Anyway as usual any help is appreciated. Sometimes its rewarding working on this car and sometimes I want to burn it to the ground hahaha oh well guess thats what inexperience feels like... Everyone has to start from somewhere.

Quick update, found the screw... Was wound in and tightened up... Would this contribute to the car running like crap? I think it would but I'm a carby noob...