1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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I was wrong! Very very wrong! The bike carbs leaked terribly, the 28/36 throttle shaft was the wrong diameter so I eventually got lucky by finding another carb in much better condition but the main reason for being so quiet is because I have been rather busy!

last October I got married! It was a brilliant day I managed to sneak the cortina into my vows - as did my wife!

2 days after we were married we completed on our house so we now have our own home! Complete with a home for Tina but other DIY projects got in the way before I could mover her in! The garage got a full makeover prior to this but I cant find the photos but it's bigger than the one tina used to live in which is making life much easier - I even have room for my Lathe.

I had another thread on here trying to work out the problems of not getting spark but thankfully that's been resolved and Tina now runs - but the mixutre is very lean as it wont run unless there is some throttle down so I have an air leak - possibly from the vacuum advance as I tried to block it off using a self tapping screw - perhaps something like resin might help???

4-26-2016

As I've mentioned in recent posts I'm getting some electrical problems which I'd thought I'd address today as I was off work...

I managed to sort the sidelights and was onto sorting the indicators as the left was on all the time when all of a sudden everything got very hot

I don't know what happened or why I'm just throughly disappointed in myself and now I need to start again pulling the loom out and figuring out what needs replacing but being unsure whether it what I am doing is right

I like the car but I feel like everything is a fight with it and I'm definitely not wining