Recap of the last 2-3 weeks
It was time for the preparation for my long trip over to SA for the annual RSOC SA small ford show.
Started off with the usual spanner check and fluid changes
Realised that my wiper motor was continually blowing fuses and disconnected it, was un able to sort that one before the tip.
Took the car off to the wheel aligners to do my aligment ( the guys there give me use of the machine ) and of course it rained the whole way to work
Wheel align was a bit of a compromise due to tie rod length again ( need to cut down the rod a little ) so much to the workshop owners dismay i set the camber to -3.5 degrees and sorted my castor and toes and was on my way.
Next on the list was a health check up on the dyno, all good there
.. But got a little excited on the way home and gave it a real big serve only to be greated by an unusual sound and the car stalling when coming to a stop, proper sh!ting myself i limped it home and park it up for diag in the morning (was 1am)
An entire morning on checking things only for them to be all in good shape left me with a sore head from head scratching. Gave the car a new set of plugs hoping that it may have fouled them when i was giving it some.
Nope problem still there
gave it another
Nope problem still there
This is when i got really sad and drove to the shop and bought a compression tester
But nothing was amiss there either.. i was at a loss
Gave myself a good half hour break, broke out the doritos and had a good hard think
all that was left was engine timing, begun to get the tools to turn the motor over and whip off the rocker cover when i looked down to see my adjustable exhaust cam had moved, and moved alot it did.
(black line is the correct position, as u can see by the scrap marks it moved alot, a good 10 dgrees)
lined up my existing marks and crossed all fingers and toes and hit the key, started and ran like a charm, thank god