Weird Car’s weird cars! ‘AUSTIN TINKERING & ONE MORE CAR BEFORE 2026’

[Weird Car]

So the new plugs showed up which in typical Weird Car luck turned out to be the wrong ones 😑

Austin 7 club said they were the right ones for a Ruby so I’m guessing my car might have had an earlier engine transplanted in at some point, but as not to waste a trip to the garage i thought I’d get the original plugs back out and really go to town with a wire brush and brake cleaner to try and get them as clean as possible and after spending about 45 minutes on each plug and it’s accompanying washer I had plugs that really didn’t look that bad

My phone couldn’t focus for a brilliant picture but this was after about half hour of work on one of the plugs

much better than the pure black dripping plugs they were before, we will have to wait and see if it’s bought the spark back though as I currently have the battery here on a trickle as all the messing around checking sparks on New Year’s Eve has killed it and whenever I try and hand crank it it kicks back and scares me 😆

 

I also pushed it right into the corner of the garage and I’m shocked how little space it takes up in a modern 1 car garage 

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

33 minutes ago, Weird Car said:

 spending about 45 minutes on each plug 

An easier way is to burn the soot off them with a butane torch - only takes a couple of minutes.

You'll also need to find why they got so sooty. Are they the wrong heat range (a common issue with modern plugs in pre-war stuff, as @barrett said) ? Is the mixture set too rich ? Is the engine burning oil (or, rather, even more oil than it's meant to) ?

[Weird Car]

8 minutes ago, Sigmund Fraud said:

An easier way is to burn the soot off them with a butane torch - only takes a couple of minutes.

You'll also need to find why they got so sooty. Are they the wrong heat range (a common issue with modern plugs in pre-war stuff, as @barrett said) ? Is the mixture set too rich ? Is the engine burning oil (or, rather, even more oil than it's meant to) ?

I’ll get round to finding all that information out once I get it running 👌

[Weird Car]

So not only have I managed to get classic car insurance on my 2006 CityRover but they’ve also valued it at £1800!! 😮
Double win 👌