Sorting Out Dad's Ute! It Won't Start! 

@@mysticgreg it's the only way we all learn

@@blownhemi Totally agree. Can't wait for the next ep!

We're all Human and we all make mistakes from time to time.

yrs ago just about all garages had spark plug cleaner / testers,as well as quite a few plugs kept on the shelf , Champion and K.L.G Made some good machines ,they had built in sand blaster & could test for visable spark to see if were dead .when they come up for sale now they want crazy money if they are complete and full operational

I'll take a look

Yep definitely, good spot.

Eagle eyes there! You are right.

Clearly good eyes it may be plug lead 1 not connected properly

I just watched the video to see what you were looking at and I don't think it's a stray spark. I think it's a loose piece of electrical tape flapping about, but I'll take a look on the weekend. Scotty

Haha, yeah. I was pretty happy to install all the Haltech gear myself and get it to run without having to call in any experts.

Yeah, working with mates on cars when we were younger were definitely the good old days.

I'll have to try that next time

​@@blownhemi I was going to suggest that, also if you do get it going with fouling plugs you can labour the engine and it will burn them clean.

@@spacemonkey5896 this is true

They have something similar, one in either side

What the hell, that's crazy. Who would do that?

@blownhemi i dunno, but bursons were just as shocked 😲

It sure would, maybe that is something to aspire to in the future. Dad's would definitely approve.

@@blownhemi I bet he would. 👍

@anthonycavendish6609 it's much cleaner than it used to be, but yeah, I need to finish it

Lukily I have a contact at the local Burson's who gets me a decent discount, but I'd hate to be paying retail.

@@582motorsports8 interesting, I've never heard that before

@blownhemi I've had trouble over the years with my race bikes and a few cars over the years have issues fouling plugs on 98, a engine tuner was the one that told me, also said BP 98 was the better of all the 98 octane fuels at the time, was due to the specific gravity and density of the fuel going through a carb, it didn't atomize properly because the fuel was designed for fuel injectiom.....that was back in the early 2000's, but fuel could be better now.

Hmm interesting. 98 does have a lot of detergents in it supposedly to keep the engine clean, thats prob ok for injection but they would have a different SG than fuel so could cause issues.

100% go to 95 octane you'll notice the difference straight away. My 355 hi comp holden engine would not run on 98.. 95 in her and runs spot on

Even on newer cars I've seen cold start problems with 98

It'll need rejetting for maximum power, but the main jets don't influence the idle circuit

@@robtaylor5891 I'll take a look, thanks for the heads up

I'm working my way around to it :)

While EFI would be nice, I don't Dad would have gone that way, which is why I'm choosing to leave it carby for the time being.

@@blownhemi - and that is fair enough, well then if that is the choice made then time to look into what "Holley" carby or "Webber" carby will work for the Valliant. Also I am no mechanic or even your level (I prefer to work on computers and servers) but would not moving to electronic ignition also help or am I wrong on that? Notice you side stepped the Carnage stuff *wink*wink ... nah all good Scotty keep up the good work.

The formula tends to work best for Holley carbs, also I've seen many engines perform better on the dyno using bigger carbies than that formula recommends

@@blownhemi but his carby is a holly , and it’s just a general rule.✌️

@@rideswithhoover9789 whose carby is a Holley?

A Hemi V8 would be nice

Next week, we'll have some news

@@blownhemi Thanks I haven't seen it on Carnage in a long time and just found your personal channel.

I'm hoping the change in heat range has some effect

They're a good tool but out of my budget

We all have our favourites

Jetting the carby down doesn't affect the idle mixtures

Nah, I'm just trying to motivate myself into getting my cars going.

I have heard that

@@JoshWhitehead-j9t yep, how did you guess that?

I was born an bred in dapto scotty, my mum use to work there the same time as you did, I remember you when I was a young tacka hahahah. 100% top bloke absolute legend keep doing what your doing man loving the content 👌👌❤

@LV-FOURTWENTYSIX it's a great sounding car

I will be looking at that

I think it needs to be older than '68 for Chopped

Haha!

I don't think that's the case myself. I like the confidence that the anti-seize inspires and I've never had a problem. It also helps when you pull the plugs next time. If you've ever pulled plugs out of a 300,000km Barra, you'll know what I mean.

I'll have a look at that

I didn't have any long vacuum line in the shed unfortunately

@@davidgriffin2918 6 is what they use on factory 340, but I must admit I didn't take alloy heads into consideration. That's a good point.

I must admit, I've used NGK for a lot of years, but also had good luck with Denso plugs

same ​ive been an NGK fanboy for yrs , but started having problems with them just recently, they wouldnt spark up so i pulled the leads off a little bit and they would spark fit them properly and no spark.....a fellow on the norton forum was having the same issue. probably not an issue with a motor already tuned but when rebuilding or swapping carbs and then tuning and plugs foul it becomes an issue.

It's a 318, the Fireball was a high-comp engine option. this engine is high compression but it makes more than a Fireball would have made.

Yeah, I'll try this 800 on the dyno, but ultimately I think a 750 might be the way to go.

Yep, I needed to do some "talky videos" to start things off, but now it's time to get on the tools and get stuff done. The shed is slowly coming along but I need to build some more storage.

@@blownhemi The talky videos are still good too 👌

I don't think that's the problem but you're right it's been a couple years since I've done a spanner check on the engine.

You'll be surprised mate. If your fouling plugs and vacuum is low the air charge is leaking somewhere .

@conhemi50 it's a biggish cam, so engine vacuum will be low.

Thank you mate, that's awesome. I think that's the first financial donation we've ever had through RU-vid. Have a great week.

👍

It sounds like people want to see it, so maybe I'll throw it into the mix

@@blownhemi - go the mighty AU, my AU S2 E:Gas (dedicated LPG) hates cold morning starts here in Sydney but once engine reaches operating temp the wild fuel consumption returns back to normal and due to all that bottom end torque pulls like a train which is great when driving to the CBD and back.

Good old Gulgong. I remember buying my first .22 there, from a little old lady who sold second hand furniture and stuff. She was this tiny little thing and had boxes of brand new semi-auto .22s, I used to buy ammo from her as well.

@@blownhemi - with the gun & ammo laws today do that and get locked up :) I go further west to Forbes and the major surrounding regions like Grenfill & Burcher (know a few good farmers out there that let us on there properties) also north west to Albert (up the Bogan way) and then onto Five Ways, try to get out there at least once a year for good hunting.

@351tgv yep, it's very different now. This was way back in the kare 80s and she was a licensed firearms and ammo dealer. I used to buy 22ammo from the local milk bar and take it home on the school bus - true story.

@@blownhemi - very very very different, but also way safer at the same time. never own CF Refills more a shotgun person.

Much better

I know, it's just not the same with EFI is it?

@@blownhemi yep miss my 253 and 308 carby engines have to live with the efi 304 . The sound you get when you plant your foot to the floor with a v8 carburettor engine can't be replaced . Yes fuel economy and power with efi is great but it doesn't give the same feeling .

I agree the ute needs to get out more, there's just no a lot happening during winter.

@@blownhemi yep it's the eternal struggle with a car like that - and I wouldn't want to be getting it wet and risking it rusting etc... one of those things!

Not true, scotty's is a dual fuel Series I which have issues with cold morning starts as the computer switches from petrol to LPG before engine reaches temp where the coolant can do its job to have the converter to convert liquid to gas, re: those converters do not have the "stepper motor" which is an igniter, also have to be careful the the throttle body does not reject the gas/oxygen mix and blows out the air box (which is known to happen on dual fuel versions) which as Soctty has said before can lead to bending conrods. It's also the reason why Ford went to the trouble to switch from Dual Petrol/LPG to a dedicated LPG system (or was its Tickford) the warranty repairs were costing them $$$ of those factory dual fuel Falcons.

@@351tgv haha yeah I know, I have 3 of them and they're not immune from acting up - was just joking. :)

@@mahcooharper9577 - I installed a extra heavy duty battery to crank the engine until it fires up, which is good and bad at the same time, good as the battery ahs heaps of power bad for the starter motor, overall the E:Gas Falcon in winter is a gazz guzzler (pardon the pun) fuel economy in metro areas is like 25L per 100km but out on the highway it settles down to around 13L per 100km, which is fine while LPG is still around 95c per litre (here in Sydney) but if it were higher like in regional areas at $1.30 then yeah its not worth driving with that fuel consumption during winter, its just that the engine takes forever to get to operating temp and during that period the system is working hard to keep the engine at steady idle and at the same time provide performance. During spring and summer no issues and fuel consumption is good at 15L in metro and as low as 9L on the highways.

There's a couple Barra's back there that belong to Carnage

@@blownhemi then you should have a go at porting one Scotty 👍 Barra Cylinder Head Porting, How to port. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BjuY1pTrN0Q.html

I'm both happy and horrified to hear that. I'm happy that you enjoy the content but it sounds like I needy to do a better job on Carnage.

​@@blownheminah, you're good mate 🤙

@@blownhemi Your work on Carnage is fine, but the videos are edited to keep a little bit too much footage of just doing work that we've already seen a few times before.

LOL, yeah, I'm trying to keep Carnage things for Carnage.

@rowansaxby762 if people are interested, I can certainly do that.

Central NSW, that's actually part of an upcoming video

Cheers 👍

Haha, nah, I think that would be a step backwards. Great classic engine but not the engine for the Trolvo.