Manky's Pop.

[NeilG]

Well done Guy's,really chuffed for ya!!!

[Manky Monkey]

Chuff, chuff, chuff. 
Thanks guys.
Back at the workshop after work this afternoon, but must admit, neither Loony or I had our hotrodding heads on, so just a few small jobs sorted.
As mentioned in another thread, we're not convinced the electronic distributor/coil set-up's quite right. If all else fails, I'll buy a second hand points dizzy.
The leak from the bottom radiator hose turned out to be just a loose jubilee clip.
The oil weeping from the oil pressure gauge sender was easily fixed by nipping out to the local hydraulics supplier for a Dowty seal, (copper washer with a rubber seal around the hole).
I also bought a tube of Uni Bond chemical metal putty. Mixed it up & worked it into the crack in the water temp' sender housing. Within 15 minutes it'd set solid. Seems to have done the trick. I used a tad more to seal a pinhole leak in one of the heater pipe unions.
Lastly, I took the 1 inch wheel spacers off Taz's trike project last night & tried one on the front of the Pop today. Clearances have always been a bit tight on the front end, but we needed to drive the truck to see if we needed to alter anything. Turning the steering onto full lock & bouncing the suspension as hard as we could allowed the back edge of the front mudguards to just about tap the front exhaust pipe. With the weight of 2 people in the cab & a bit of speed behind it, that tap might become a full blown clonk. Clonks are bad. On the opposite lock & with similar suspension bounce, the front mudguard strut just clips the side of the headlight shell. We half expected it, so not  a big suprise. Several ideas were suggested at the launch yesterday, but simplest seems to be to space the wheel out from the hub & then alter the mudguard to suit. It means my lovely curvy mudguard struts might become a little less curvy, but I plan to do some serious mileage in this beastie, so I'll sacrifice a little to make sure it's properly drivable.
Nothing to really show, so no pics today, but I'll crack on with the guards tomorrow.

[panthershaun]

looking good sir  shooting far in front of me now  just don't seem to have anytime spare at the moment and my shift at work sucks big time leaving me little time in the week..... But I will get her done....

[Manky Monkey]

Hiya Shauny.
Come up when you get some spare time & have a drive about in ours.  
No workshopping today, but had a chat with Loony about the mudguard issue. Putting spacers between the front wheels & the hubs leaves the disc brakes on show outside the back of the wheel. Not wrong, just not what we want. Also I really don't want to have to re-work the mudguard struts. I like the way they tuck into the back of the wheel & hug the contour of the tyres.
The truck's got a very wide turning circle. We've used a standard Pop steering box, modified to lay down horizontally to hook up to a Moggy Minor steering column & give us cross steering. The lock stops are standard Pop & just the nut on the end of the top king pin cotter pin stopping against a button headed allen bolt on the back of the hub. I can pack the allen bolt out with washers to reduce the lock.
The real  problem is the Pop axle could do with being a couple of inches wider, so when we turn onto full lock the wheels & guards would clear the exhausts & headlights. If we put it on full lock & jump hard on the chassis we can make it hit either the guard or the headlight depending which way the wheels are pointing, but that may never happen in normal driving. We also need to swap the rear coil springs for stiffer ones, which might reduce the suspension travel on the front anyway.
So we'll leave things as they are for now & concentrate on getting through the registration test, then come back to it if we need to.

So we've decided to leave the front end set-up as it is for now & come back to it after the SVA test if we need to.
I've found the distributor resistor thingy I thought I'd thrown away, so hopefully we can get that wired back up to beef up the spark a bit.
Then we'll need someone with a strobe light & some idea of where the timing marks are to get the timing spot on, plus the carb needs a bit of tuning.
So while we sort that, I'll look at running the rest of the exhaust system under the cab.
getting there. Slowly.

[terry t]

Who would have thought that back in april 2007 there was this ford angila with a young  MM



Then in april 2011 you would end up with this as it is now known as POP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLLRCt__lU

[tbone]

POPs are we still talking about the car? 

[Firery Fred]

Well done Andy,even though I'm not really into 4 wheelers I've followed this from the start and been intrigued all the way congrats 

[Manky Monkey]

2007? Jeez, has it been that long? That piccie was taken outside the lock-up garage I used to rent in Basingstoke. The car was just in storage there -work didn't start on it until Loony rashly offered me a corner of his workshop "for a few months".
Yes, although we always call it a Pop, (Ford Popular), cos everyone knows what they look like, it's actually the export version, known as a Ford Anglia.
It had doors that fitted & paint & everything back then. And I had less grey hair.
Still a long way to go.

[terry t]

Andy driving hes and Loonys creation pop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hII_GaZMFko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51dS8q9zogM

[Clive]

That's so cooooooooooool!! Fancy building me one next!

[Manky Monkey]

Yeah, sure   ...NO!!!
I haven't got enough lifetime left to build another!
Don't forget you've got to airbrush the logo on the doors eventually Clive. 
There ya go, see -I did work up the courage to pilot the scary truck thing, once most people had left.
Loony was in charge of the gearchanges cos I'm not used to autos yet.
There's a chain across the end of the yard. In that second vid, I stomped on the throttle instead of the brake & we came worringly close to it. We'd love to trailer the truck to the annual WheelsDay show in a week or 2, but I definitely need more practice before we drive it anywhere near anybody else's pride n joys!
Thanks for the footage Terry.

[Manky Monkey]

Thanks to PD, who spent some time at the workshop this evening doing his thing, (he's a mechanic), we now have re-bled brakes & a working handbrake. Something else ticked off the list.

[Manky Monkey]

Swapped the very expensive spark plug leads, that didn't attach to the plugs properly, for another set today. PD just happened to mention his spare Rover engine had a brand new distributor cap & suppressed leads on it.
Now they're on mine.   

[Manky Monkey]

Not a particularly good day today. First my mobile phone died. The function select button no longer works, meaning I can't open or send texts.
Then a wheel bearing collapsed while I was driving down the M3 from Guildford, Surrey to the workshop in Basingstoke, Hants. Had to pull over & phone the RAC. Fortunately after much fiddling I was able to make an outgoing call on my busted mobile phone. The recovery guy turned out to be a Basingstoke local & actually knew of the workshop -"it's the one with all them old cars outside ain't it". He towed my Fiesta there, where PD was waiting with a new bearing. Back on the road within the hour. Ain't friends good to have.
Talking of friends, both Terry T & Toad arrived, fired up wth enthusiasm to sort out the ignition & carburation on the Pop. Much discussion followed, most of which went straight over my head. Mr Toad very kindly brought along a Mallory dual point distributor, which fits just fine & works with a standard 12 volt coil, settling the ballast resistor debate once & for all. Terry came armed with all manner of diagnostic equipment, none of which I understood.
As far as I can make out, the timing's more or less right, although they were hampered by a lack of obvious timing marks on the crank pulley.
It's running extremely rich & turning the mixture screws doesn't seem to make any difference unless you wind them right in, at which point the motor stalls.
Seems to be a lot of oily vapour from the rocker cover breathers, which feed into the carb air cleaner. Do Rover motors just breathe heavy?
Oil pressure's good & compression is 104 on the lowest cylinder & 125 on the highest, which is acceptable I'm told.
Seem to be losing radiator water, (it drops an inch or so every time we fill it up), but when Terry tested the radiator water for signs of a blown head gasket it was fine.
When we tried to blip the throttle, it wouldn't rev up cleanly. There was a hesitation that suggests the air/fuel mixture's wrong.
Sounds like we may need to go down a size in main jets, but I've got no record of what size are fitted at present.
Toad had to leave after a couple of hours, but Terry worked on till early evening. Not convinced it's running any better now than when we started, but at least the possible faults are being ruled out one by one. We really need to find someone who knows about Holley carbs, but in the meantime, Terry's searching the net for info.
I'm not a mechanic -I understand the basics of engines but fault diagnosis is beyond me. So I'll plod on with the rest of the build & leave the engine to Terry & Toad. Getting there, slowly.   

[poprodder]

what carb you got on there andy? is it jetted up correctly?