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Any way of fixing it?

It's the original alternator and a nice feature on the car with the air cooling duct etc.

Any clues why the battery light is illuminated even when the ignition is switched off and the key removed?

1980 2.0 NA, UK spec, original alternator.

Just thought I'd bring this one to a close having now finally cured it.

I can't honestly say it was one thing in particular, more just a series of incremental improvements that made a difference in ...

Found the leak - it's at the joint between the manifold and down pipe and is substantial.

I have already replaced the gasket and made sure the old gasket had been fully removed and that the sealing ...

I'm still trying to find the cause of my poor running when cold and having changed and replaced pretty much everything in the entire system now, including the inlet manifold gasket this afternoon, I s ...

I think at this point, I will join the rest and say, drive it for a while. Maybe the problem will worsen or will get better. You've done a lot to it. Get some miles on it. Driving it for a while may ...

Are you measuring fuel pressure during start up? I assume you do since this thread is 15 pages long.

Yep - fuel pressure is text book from cold to hot.

I though we eliminated the fuel system a while ago before you started tearing into it and you found problems with that green wire..

The metering head was the last part unchecked - now we can perman ...

Just tried a cold start and it's as bad as ever - plenty of coughing, spluttering and backfiring up the intake. No difference.

So we can now eliminate the metering head.

Running out of things to ...

Are all the cold start problems gone now???? If so congrats!!!

No - when I said all fine, I meant the plunger in the metering head.

I re-installed the metering head and air flap unit and fire ...

Stripped it down and rebuilt it again - it's fine now.

Let's hope it works.

I'e rebuilt the metering head and come across what may or may not be a problem...

The shuttle valve glides effortlessly into the valve body but tightens up that last quarter inch of travel - the pa ...

1980 2.0 NA - cast head, stainless diaphragm.

I'm about to rebuild my metering head and made the mistake of not keeping tabs on what springs and washer went in which port.

Is this critical?

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Not much in the way of an update, but an interesting exercise nonetheless.

I was keen to see just how much additional dirt could be removed using an ultrasonic cleaner using panel wipe spirit as th ...

In the spirit of adventure and pursuit of answers, it would be great to pinpoint the problem, but honestly, the symptoms I've seen in your videos are so scant, I'm beginning to doubt that something is ...