BSG 8, Adam and I has a great couple of days in the Scottish Borders in late a June last year at the Moffat rally. This was the longest run the car has undertaken since it came out of hibernation. And there was no doubt that it was feeling slightly poorly by the time it got back home. However, it was a huge surprise a week later to find it struggling badly to get any decent acceleration and speed.
Well, we tried everything: adjusting the carburettors ; changing the oil; checking the fuel lines; etc, etc. Eventually we concluded that it must be something very serious with the engine itself. We therefore started thinking about how to get the engine out and find a company that could recondition it. Seeking information about the timing chain, John Freeth of ASCO suggested that it might be as simple as one of the valves being stuck, which could be fixed with a simple tap!
And that's all it was. Two months of faffing around and limping about, all for want of a simple 'tap'.
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