04-07-2021, 10:22 AM
On one of our N Wales weekends a few years ago, one of our members in a MkI ruby had great difficulty keeping up with the convoy. cruising 40-45 mph.
At Aberystwyth, he changed the head gasket, still no improvement. On arrival at LLandudno, there was a "Committee" inspection of the car. The only fault we could find was a seized distributor advance spindle. Loaned him the spare distributor I was carrying, and the car's performance was transformed. I would never have credited the improvement, and fitted the returned distributor to my RL to replace the original manual advance unit.
At Aberystwyth, he changed the head gasket, still no improvement. On arrival at LLandudno, there was a "Committee" inspection of the car. The only fault we could find was a seized distributor advance spindle. Loaned him the spare distributor I was carrying, and the car's performance was transformed. I would never have credited the improvement, and fitted the returned distributor to my RL to replace the original manual advance unit.