FRANKENMOTOR - Clack or smoke?

[Mark(The Miser)UK]

Few tweaks needed after the shakedown.



swapping to a two notch gasket instead of a three.

add a cold start advance mech from a 1.6 pump to the 1.9 pump body

All this to get rid of the smoke at start-up and be able to run more power friendly timing setting.

Found a couple of problems, whilst pulling the head, water pump bolts were very loose, pump bracket bolts loose and the inlet manifold has 3 bolts fitted instead of 6.

How the, what the ... Did they fall off
Reg, I did some further reading, and you will be pleased to know that that electric thing under the pump does seem to advance, It does it by rapid switching on and off and varying the pulse rate or is it length I cannot remember which, but, clearly an overall average proportional thingy...

[RabbitJockey]

what is up with your master cylinder?  i thought rhd mk1s had linkage to the left side of the engine bay?  did later cars have the master cylinder like yours

[regcheeseman]

Reg, I did some further reading, and you will be pleased to know that that electric thing under the pump does seem to advance, It does it by rapid switching on and off and varying the pulse rate or is it length I cannot remember which, but, clearly an overall average proportional thingy...

Whilst the pump was off and stipped last night I took some pictures so people might know what I'm on about however looking at it - I'd say that it retards not advances. You'll see when I post the picture but it is in essence a solenoid valve that sits in a gallery that delivers pressurised diesel to the retard side of the advance shuttle valve. All that it can seemingly do is bleed pressure away form the advance side of the shuttle and direct it to the other side.
I'll post pictures...

what is up with your master cylinder?  i thought rhd mk1s had linkage to the left side of the engine bay?  did later cars have the master cylinder like yours

Nothing is up with my master cylinder - it's in the bin, complete with the awful linkage and pitiful servo.
What you have there is a bigger servo and master cylinder, moved back across the firewall and directly linked to the brake pedal. AND it's not some scene approved VAG manufactured 9" servo 22mm cylinder combo but a non-scene friendly FORD part (10" servo 25mm cylinder)

Such a novelty that have brakes that work.

[regcheeseman]

Engine rebuilt with 2 notch

Pump rebuilt, this is standard AAZ with just a blanking plate over the advance piston


Thankfully the 1.6 timing shuttle is the same diameter as the AAZ one but it is slightly longer, the 1.6 cover is much deeper to allow for this so I swapped the lot.


It fired up and smoked worse than before. I wound in some more advance - no smoke, no clack.