You can't fit better'n a fuel filter

[pyoor_excuse]

Somewhat tardily I put in a fuel filter on both DAFs today. I say somewhat tardily because after quite a lot of investigation I found this in the carb on Jejy:




Which I dug out with a screwdriver, tissue paper, and cotton buds - giving me this:



Yes it does look like fine-brown sugar. Yes that did go into my engine. Yes I have sod-all compression on one cylinder.

I realised I was possibly screwed when I looked at the butterfly in the carb and saw a layer of crudy-rusty-dirt the same as was in the float chamber. I did everything correctly all the same; popped in an inline fuel filter before I started her, somewhat hopefully. The erratic idle's gone, but the engine still runs like pants on a stick. I've no idea what 'healthy' values are for the compression on a DAF 44 - on the minor I think it's around 140lb/in². Jejy returned 110psi and 70 psi. I know 70 is too low.

There was also a cheerful line of sooty oil sprayed out the exhaust when I moved her.

Tomorrow I shall ring places and obtain quotes. I may as well get them to do the clutch shoes as well, frankly, since the engine has to come out. All please pray.

I've also asked JLH for a quote for the minor. That needs prayer too.

Anyway, now it's time for me to convince Cardiff to let me be a postgrad despite my attrocious grades on my BScs :(.

Comments

[loopback0.livejournal.com]

wow - postgrad in Cardiff coooool


If you need a personal reference let me know :)

[pyoor_excuse]

I want to do a masters in Critical Care; they offer an online one with no residential components. I just need to write a personal statement that's worth reading...and I'll send my application in.

Thanks for the offer of a reference! :)

[aminorjourney.livejournal.com]

Very cool for the postgrad.

And erm... If you need crashspace... let us know :)

[pyoor_excuse]

Cheers!

[wibble-puppy.livejournal.com]

Bejings! :-( Praying.

[pyoor_excuse]

I had the guy from the engineering place that recon'd the viva's cylinderhead. He looked at it in the same way that you might examine a flying goldfish, asked if I had a manual, and then said he'd think about it. He has, apparently, never worked on a horizontally opposed air cooled twin engine.