1972 Scamp in New Zealand
Since my last update I have re-kitted the P/S pump I’ve also shimmed the relief valve to lower the assistance given as the steering was too light at higher road speeds,
I’ve replaced all the inner and out tie rod ends and the drag link,
I dropped the block, crank and heads off to my machinist, block had been acid tanked, honed and had the cam bearings replaced. The heads have been checked over, machined, machined to take the valve springs, couple of worn valve guides replaced.
The valve springs turned into a bit of a headache, the double springs supplied with my cam kit ended up having 140lbs of seat pressure which is was too high for a hydraulic flat tappet cam, We ended up ditching the inner spring and shimming the outer to end up with 100lbs seat pressure. A bit annoying but at least it didn’t turn into a major.
Dont have any photos yet as it’s all plastic wrapped as it will be a couple of weeks before I start assembling
slowly coming together, made another couple of orders from rock auto
got a cam thrust plate with a tensioner
got some rubber lower arm inner bushes as apparently the complete polyurethane bush kit I got for the car doesn’t come with them (and no one lists a poly bush for it)
ordered new rad hoses, bypass hose, rear spring shackles (as mine were too rusty) also ordered a starter motor from a 1992 dodge Dakota (factory mini starter)
For now I need to let the bank account recover so ill be working on tidying up the rear suspension mounts and springs.
Since my last update I have re-kitted the P/S pump I’ve also shimmed the relief valve to lower the assistance given as the steering was too light at higher road speeds,
I’ve replaced all the inner and out tie rod ends and the drag link,
I dropped the block, crank and heads off to my machinist, block had been acid tanked, honed and had the cam bearings replaced. The heads have been checked over, machined, machined to take the valve springs, couple of worn valve guides replaced.
The valve springs turned into a bit of a headache, the double springs supplied with my cam kit ended up having 140lbs of seat pressure which is was too high for a hydraulic flat tappet cam, We ended up ditching the inner spring and shimming the outer to end up with 100lbs seat pressure. A bit annoying but at least it didn’t turn into a major.
Dont have any photos yet as it’s all plastic wrapped as it will be a couple of weeks before I start assembling
slowly coming together, made another couple of orders from rock auto
got a cam thrust plate with a tensioner
got some rubber lower arm inner bushes as apparently the complete polyurethane bush kit I got for the car doesn’t come with them (and no one lists a poly bush for it)
ordered new rad hoses, bypass hose, rear spring shackles (as mine were too rusty) also ordered a starter motor from a 1992 dodge Dakota (factory mini starter)
For now I need to let the bank account recover so ill be working on tidying up the rear suspension mounts and springs.
