Meet Ziggy - '79 GLD MK1

[static1800]

Awesome work Pete, we need more guys like you around keeping these old girls on the road

[DubSteve]

Quality threads Mr Johns Quality threads

[Jarred]

Yeah, I was going to ask you if you wanted any of the diesel stuff out of this. Everything except the head and block should be OK. Even the glow plug fuse box is intact and has it's cover. There's also 1/2 tank of diesel I need a new home for

Pete

Ok, I'll come around next week end. I need to fiddle with the alt. bracket, mines mis-aligned.

[gldgti]

aww pete, you keep fixing them up ... but you keep making them petrol

good job saving another

[Peter Jones]

Popped the motor in yesterday.

Needed a new rear gearbox mount. Diesel has made the old one soft.

Nothing remarkable with the fit up. This car actually had all the factory heatshields and brackets still on the downpipe.

Exhaust is all hooked up. Need to clean up a DGV weber and pop it on during the week. Need to flush the last of the diesel out of the system too.

Did all the gearshift linkages while I had all motor out.

Had to replace a torn CV boot too.

[Peter Jones]

Those red leads will get replaced before it goes back on the road, they were just what was lying about.

While the car was up in the air I discovered one of the wheels was loose. I assumed at first the wheel nuts were undone the wheel rattled around so much.

Turns out the wheel nuts are tight! Looks like I'll be replacing wheel bearings too!

Pete

[dubai gti]

great work Pete...despite having a great new rocket, you make the re-doing of my old motor look so easy !!!

[Peter Jones]

Got the carby in yesterday. Took most of the day stuffing about with it.

The secondary butterfly shaft was seized so I had to tear the thing down and clean a lot of stuff up. There were a few other little issues, like a bent choke flap, that I had to sort as well.

When it came to fitting the manifold it turned out that I didn't have a full set of petrol manifold bolts so I had to cut down some diesel ones. (The bolt bar had shut by then).

Of course the DGAV Weber hit the back of the rain tray too, so I had to do a bit of panel beating to even be able to get it in there. Matters were made more complicated by this carb having an water fed auto choke hanging off the back of it.

I'll tackle the plumbing later today, there's going to be hoses all over the place!

I made up a bracket and used the ball stud off the diesel pump so that I could use the diesel throttle cable. I came up really neat, much better in fact than the factory petrol cable setup.







Pete

[dubai gti]

looking forward to see how it runs Pete !

[Oneofthegreats]

Matters were made more complicated by this carb having an water fed auto choke hanging off the back of it.

I'll tackle the plumbing later today, there's going to be hoses all over the place!

I honestly wouldn't worry too much about the choke Pete.

If they're tuned spot on, you shouldn't have any drama's with cold start up.

None of my old carb'd cars ever had working chokes (most of them I deleted too) & I never had a problem with them setup like this.

One - two pumps of the throttle & they'd fire up. You only had to hold the throttle for a couple of seconds to let the idle settle.


If you really feel the need, you can retro fit a electric one to these carbs, which makes it a ton more easier & waaayyy more neater than running cooling hoses all over the place if the car doesn't have the intake manifold equipped with the choke water heater.