Many will know I bought a 69S mid last year and have had it stored at Phils warehouse pretty much since its arrival as I had too many cars and not enough space. Due to recent sales its currently my only P wheels so went to get it from Phils last Friday
After re-installing the rotor button and firing it up it seemed to be running OK so headed for the freeway for the 1 hour journey home. It was running poorly whenever I put my foot down but went OK as I was coasting along.
I decided to get off the freeway to get some petrol as it was running low and I got to the first set of lights, Flemington Road and Racecourse Road, a large busy intersection in Melbourne, where it promptly died on me mid intersection and refused to go. Luckily momentum carried me through and I was sitting in the middle as traffic split left and right of me.
Luckily I wasn't far from Mark Johnson and Dave Belford so the call went out to Dave who brought over Marks race car trailer and we carted it back to his nearby warehouse in Nth Melbourne.
I thought the plugs might have completely fouled but it turned out that one of the clips on the distributor cap is dodgy and the cap had moved or wasn't on properly to start with and hence the rotor had been spinning against it and split the rotor. Also the points were not openeing very far so a borrowed 7300RPM rotor from Mark and Dave's feeler guages got me going again.
Car drives well actually, even better than before thanks to wider points gap but has a major oil leak, probabaly a pissy O Ring from the front of the crankshaft that requires a case splitting to fix. Otherwise no oil leaks at all. Think I will leave that for another day.
I had all of Saturday to myself and as I am getting a dash recovered for this car in the USA at the moment I thought I would remove the old and have a look for the dreaded rust lurgy.
I am getting pretty clever at removing all the ventilation, wiper motor etc and before long had the dash ready to come out. Found evidence of mice living in the inner front guards and the vacuum was put into service to remove heaps of mouse **** and other items they had collected.
I managed to fit a NOS Blaupunkt radio with its NOS Porsche fitting kit in no time at all. Really is easy if you have all the right pieces and the instructions. I can help if you need info here folks. I even have the correct template for the front piece as it comes with the NOS fitting kit (which I bought from E Bay some time ago).
My 69S has a ton of driving lights, badly fitted, also so I traced and removed any incorrect wiring and will start again with Peter the Auto Electrician. It has Cibies in the bonnet but they are the Citreon fitting, same lights however, and hence the lens is angled to the side but adjustments to the fitting ring car fix that easily. In fact I have just finshed shifting them see them on the car and now on the bench!
Think I will remove the under bumper driving lights and leave the other two. Besides 6 is the max number of lights here in Victoria anyway
The car also had race numbers and white circles on the doors and bonnet and I decided they should go so out with the hair dryer and off they came. Unfortunately so did large chucks of paint which hadn't adhered so well to the body so some fix up work required there also.
Its also got a 100 litre centre fill tank which I filled yesterday $135.78 thank you very much!!!! Check ou the pic.
I found some rust in the front of the hood, you can see it in the first pic, and a little in the floor but nothing too major. When the guards are removed the true story will reveal itself won't it Peter.
I plan to fix it up a fair bit but nothing like the Targa just a nice external paint job and sound mechanicals if its doesn't need fixing then it won't be happening and no concours.
Stay tuned as it unfolds.
Might bring it out next Saturday for the run.
After re-installing the rotor button and firing it up it seemed to be running OK so headed for the freeway for the 1 hour journey home. It was running poorly whenever I put my foot down but went OK as I was coasting along.
I decided to get off the freeway to get some petrol as it was running low and I got to the first set of lights, Flemington Road and Racecourse Road, a large busy intersection in Melbourne, where it promptly died on me mid intersection and refused to go. Luckily momentum carried me through and I was sitting in the middle as traffic split left and right of me.
Luckily I wasn't far from Mark Johnson and Dave Belford so the call went out to Dave who brought over Marks race car trailer and we carted it back to his nearby warehouse in Nth Melbourne.
I thought the plugs might have completely fouled but it turned out that one of the clips on the distributor cap is dodgy and the cap had moved or wasn't on properly to start with and hence the rotor had been spinning against it and split the rotor. Also the points were not openeing very far so a borrowed 7300RPM rotor from Mark and Dave's feeler guages got me going again.
Car drives well actually, even better than before thanks to wider points gap but has a major oil leak, probabaly a pissy O Ring from the front of the crankshaft that requires a case splitting to fix. Otherwise no oil leaks at all. Think I will leave that for another day.
I had all of Saturday to myself and as I am getting a dash recovered for this car in the USA at the moment I thought I would remove the old and have a look for the dreaded rust lurgy.
I am getting pretty clever at removing all the ventilation, wiper motor etc and before long had the dash ready to come out. Found evidence of mice living in the inner front guards and the vacuum was put into service to remove heaps of mouse **** and other items they had collected.
I managed to fit a NOS Blaupunkt radio with its NOS Porsche fitting kit in no time at all. Really is easy if you have all the right pieces and the instructions. I can help if you need info here folks. I even have the correct template for the front piece as it comes with the NOS fitting kit (which I bought from E Bay some time ago).
My 69S has a ton of driving lights, badly fitted, also so I traced and removed any incorrect wiring and will start again with Peter the Auto Electrician. It has Cibies in the bonnet but they are the Citreon fitting, same lights however, and hence the lens is angled to the side but adjustments to the fitting ring car fix that easily. In fact I have just finshed shifting them see them on the car and now on the bench!
Think I will remove the under bumper driving lights and leave the other two. Besides 6 is the max number of lights here in Victoria anyway
The car also had race numbers and white circles on the doors and bonnet and I decided they should go so out with the hair dryer and off they came. Unfortunately so did large chucks of paint which hadn't adhered so well to the body so some fix up work required there also.
Its also got a 100 litre centre fill tank which I filled yesterday $135.78 thank you very much!!!! Check ou the pic.
I found some rust in the front of the hood, you can see it in the first pic, and a little in the floor but nothing too major. When the guards are removed the true story will reveal itself won't it Peter.
I plan to fix it up a fair bit but nothing like the Targa just a nice external paint job and sound mechanicals if its doesn't need fixing then it won't be happening and no concours.
Stay tuned as it unfolds.
Might bring it out next Saturday for the run.
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