new carrier arrives home

[Lew Skelton]

I got into the carrier today finally (been waterproofing a leaky old caravan that has sucked up all my spare time) pulled off the dizzy cap to check for the cause of the miss, their was a little bit of dust inside the cap so i cleaned that up, took off the rotor arm. Bugger me, found the cause, spark had erroded a hole thru the arm and had been sneaking out thru the dizzy shaft.

So as your common old tightarse I got in and cleaned it up then filled the hole with fiberglass resin, waited for it to set filed it smooth and coated it with nail polish varnish. Made up a better set of HT leads, I will let you know how it goes.......

[Ric Davies]

Just found MLU. Good looking carrier Lew.took 3 years to do mine. Notice in your hull a hole with 4bolt holes just in front of the the rear road wheel carrier. Not in mine so wondered what it's for? Mine was built in Adelaide No4354.

[Lew Skelton]

Hi Ric, this carrier was used in the south island, due to the hot exhaust pipes catching the long tussock on fire some carriers recieved the "Tekapo" conversion. Basically the exhaust comes off the manifold and is piped out the Side of the hull. No mufflers required. I was out in the shed with the carrier running yesterday after putting the dizzy back just enjoying the exhaust note at vairing rev ranges.

[Lew Skelton]

had the carrier out of the garage this weekend, took both tracks off to remove links and improve track tension and remove the extra cleats that had been welded to some links to improve traction. Found a track link with a big crack and a pin that had broken off inside a link, fixed all that up as well as orientating all joiner pins so the heads are on the inside and split pins facing out for easy inspection, also replaced the dizzy cap and rotor arm, running much better. Also had a helper for all of 5 min....

[Lew Skelton]

I had the carrier out at a local school gala day giving rides to both the young and old, had one kid so excited he was gangham dancing as we went down the road. Couple of old soldiers that had been in carriers back in the day also.
So it was a hot as day over here in drought ridden New Zealand with a high of 26 degrees and an engine bay hotter than satans arse end.... All went well for the first 2 hours of rides but after lunch when it was hottest I had some engine trouble as it was if the spark was breaking down as I put on some load after changing into 3rd gear, it would stall but would start again with the ignition and run immediatly. Thought it might be a little hot for the coil to keep up with things as it was too hot to hold my hand on when I did a bit of a feel about. Went good as gold after about 45 min sitting with all the covers off but then after about 10 min started playing up again. Any thoughts, I am running a 12v coil (from a Honda civic, mid 80's ) and battery at the moment. Also my coil is mounted beside the generator on a bracket.

[The Bedford Boys]

Try moving the coil up into the air dam, I think this is where Paul put his.

[Lew Skelton]

as you can see, its beside the generator, I thought the fan wash would have been enough. Anyone from the hotter parts of Aussie got an opionion of dealt with this problem?