Re: Not the best condition but

On 25 Mar, 11:58, Elder <carl.rob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Those wheels/tyres are going to taken off, and it is getting standard
ones fitted as part of the deal.

Yeah, I missed that bit, silly me.

One thing I've discoverd about lpg'd rover V8's is they can idle like
*** for two main reasons.
One, the mixture is too lean (leaned out to try and meet petrol CO
levels), causes misses and backfires and lumpy idle.
two, plugs, leads and dizzy cap need to be absolutley spanking.

The last LPG (or propane, as it was) engine I dealt with was a 454 in
a Chevrolet pick-up in Canada. To tune it, you twiddled the adjustment
screw until the exhaust didn't smell of apples. Simple!

Going to get it MOT'd and give it a spot on service first before anything else
other than insure and retax it.

Get the tranny fluid changed aswell. Do them rover V8 engines have
cambelts or chains or anything that need anything?



...and I always had the feeling that something
really pricey was going to go wrong, but couldn't work out why. Didn't
ever feel comfortable that something could keep working so well, with so
little done to it.

What?! Well, that's progress for you! When I went to buy my car in BC,
it had been sat under a tree for 9 years and had nothing done to it.
The guy poured a pint of petrol into the carb, hooked up a new battery
and it turned over quite happily. Sure, the brakes were shot through,
and it would stall if you put it in drive before it had warmed up, but
at least the engine worked!


It might be too much. But like the guys on the landrover newsgroup said.
It looks OK, at worst I paid roughly the value of the LPG kit with a
free car thrown in, at best it really is as solid as described, and I
got a bargain.

Yeah, if all goes wrong, you've got a piggy bank of serviceable spares
to flog.

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