Am on with it now, couple of hours a night after work where possible.
Well I got the car up high enough to sort my fooked exhaust. I have failed you and not taken pics of the issue or what I did. But I said before the sprung join that holds the manifold to the centre section has had it. I had to chop off the two sprung brackets that pull the flanges together, I have tightly wrapped the join in exhaust heat wrap held in place with metal ties, then wrapped over that is some bendy metal, made it into a tube and put exhaust clamps over each end just behind each flange... it seems to be doing an ok job for now.
image uploaderI have been boll*cked on FB already about how the car is supported above but it's because I left my ramps at my dads who lives in Devon! It wasn't going anywhere, I made super sure of this and kept a jack on it too just in case.
I think for a longer term fix I am going to try chopping the exhaust flanges which are fooked and try and use something like this??
Next up is sort out the horror I discovered while the car was in the air, I have been leaking a little oil but have been smelling burning grease. The inner drive shaft bolts have been undoing themselves on the O/S!!!
that explains the smell, glad I caught it when I did!
Also need to try setting up the fueling and timing again as I'm still not happy with it but I doubt I ever will be until I get a replacement warm up reg and get some work done to the head.
