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rebuild 2 electric boogaloo. But Yeah I've done the swap. I changed thermostat housings to accomodate the extra coolant line for the oil cooler. Generally when you get your hands on a 2.1 it will have the oil cooler on it anyway its there for a reason so you might as well renew it.. unless the previ...

my pretzel rates are quite reasonable

Enjoy contorting yourself into a pretzel to get under there

Well, dont say that too loud it will hear you!

Bentley manual might have it Stu.. Ill have a dig out and check tomorrow unless someone else comes up trumps

Open the bleed valve on the radiator with it running and see if you get any air out of it. It should be hot all over when the engine is up to temp. Also check your heater, if that doesn't go hot or it goes hot cold hot cold then you got air in the system. so you'll need to top up the coolant.

Was the radiator hot?

I've been tempted to get one, just so Im not faffing pulling a plug or two every now and then to get them looking OK and adjusting the O2 screw til the plugs look right. I've also been tempted to get a wideband sensor and gauge instead as my exhaust has the bung for one.. but they are double the pri...

Check to make sure the Idle control valve is working, might be the AFM track is worn too, its on factory fuel injection?

Yeah.. Im still twitchy about my headstuds that the local machine shop buggered up drilling out and helicoiled my case... 

Thats some very period carpet going on there

It could be just the rotor arm in the other distributor that has failed.
Where did you buy the dissy from?

For the price of a new cylinder swap it out. If it aint broke don't fix it, save yourself a bit of money and clean up the springs / adjusters etc. Copper grease or the likes to put the adjusters back in so they don't freeze up with rust. Rebuild them back onto new backplates then just stick em back ...

They are reliable assuming its been taken care of :lol: Mines my daily and have no issue with it.. although I've done pretty much every job you can on it. Sometimes the carbs don't have a cone filter in them.. which won't matter all that much assuming the fuel line filter is checked / replaced on a ...

Bleed the coolant system, you might have an airlock. Unless coolant is coming out of the seal..
Without pictures nobody will know how much it would be worth.