bloody hell ahh dont laugh

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

i fitted a dgas to my pinto powered cortina

 

i also added the heat spacer between the carb and manifold as mine didnt have one on before !

 

so that was the modds for the weekend all on and started up in a hour or so

 

went out it ran fine went like shit off a shovel but there was a vibrating noisde under heavy acceleration

 

20 quids worth of fuel later and now starting to get headache i still for the life of me not work out what was catching/ knocking

 

the next day i set about fitting a new engine mount on the carb side of my engine (both engine mounts now matched ) as i had a thin one on one side and thick one on the other before

 

went out for a test drive now the knocking and rattling was different so different i started to think the bottom end was knocking

 

with the car ticking over and bonet open there was a terrrable knock clunk rattle but couldnt feel any thing through tghe sump still couldnt pin point it i was thinking bottom end or flywheel/ clutch

 

two mates looked at it no they couldnt pin point it

 

then after a weekend away a very clever friend of mine got home so he came to look

 

he pointed at the strut braceand said take that off

 

fook me it was rattling ont the carb top

 

yes i know youre pissing yourselfs now

[Copey]

oops, sure others have made that mistake though

[Vista]

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it, let him who hath never made a schoolboy error cast the first stone.

 

Aren't you meant to have an engine mount that's a different size each side of the engine then? Most other pinto installations do.

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it, let him who hath never made a schoolboy error cast the first stone.

 

Aren't you meant to have an engine mount that's a different size each side of the engine then? Most other pinto installations do.

 

no i mean the rubber (sorry) the actuall mounts are a different size as they should be

[caprinerd]

i canged the engine on my old mans sierra and shut the bonnet and put a couple of lumps in it as the carbs sat to high and bonnet wouldnt close down

[cyrix]

What exatly was the strut brace doing on a Mk5 Cortina? lol

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

What exatly was the strut brace doing on a Mk5 Cortina? lol

 

i dunno you tell me

[cyrix]

Stopping the inner wings flexing perhaps on a car that doesnt use struts, lol

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

i put it on just because i wanted one