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Hi Ramon , its taken a while to get around to stripping and cleaning and refitting all the gaskets and sealing everything up and guess what, it still seems to be the same, maybe a little better so some more testing is in order, I have resolved the slow starter motor as I inspected it and 2 of the 4 ...

Tried again today, and it ran rough again so sprayed some more grease around injectors and this seemed to cure it, so maybe it may just be injector seals, could that sound right? I was looking to buy a head gasket set including injector seals and wondered whether this one was right(item no 120367509...

Hi Ramon, thanks for all your help, I have taken the plenum off again and cleaned all the galleries out, then refitted, and cleaned up all the electrical connections easily accessible, but this made no difference, so disconnected all the plenum pipes as described in your guide, but still the same wi...

Thanks Ramon, I had my local classic car garage look at it for me, and it appears they found the problem, and rectified it, and charged me for it, but I really wanted it going again, It seems you are right the rogue air leak, but it appears to be leaking down the idle speed screw as the mechanic onl...

Hi Ramon, Thanks for input I have read quite a few of your tips and have put the more simple ones into practice, When I brought the car it seemed to run fine and it did stand for a couple of months ,but being started regularly, then when I stared to get on with fixing it it started to run rough, so ...

Hi, Ive just joined the forum and hope it will give me some answers to fixing my triumphs, Firstly I ve got a stag with a sd1 v8 unit in it with extractor manifolds, offenhauser inlet with edelbrock 500 cfm carb and a Mallory distrubutor but the engine internally is standard, this has always run ric...