Great work Alex! Result! Good to see you carried out the startup and final fettling with the air cleaner assembly installed. Definitely affects the end result ;)
Well done Alex, a great job! Frustrations abound but well worth it in the long run. I knew you could get George back up and running! He needs to be out on the road, on the motorway, to stretch his legs.
Great job Alex - wonderful news that George returns to the road! Was it just me - each time you mentioned the 'dizzy', the Bob the builder theme looped round my brain!
Austin Allegro...! I was an adolescent in Malaysia when this came out. Its advertisements appeared quite regularly, including on black-and-white TV. But from the 70s, European cars - except for the perennial status-symbol Mercedes - were having a very tough time against Toyota, Datsun and the emerging Honda. I have zero experience with the Allegro but it's good to see someone still working on it. -- Selangor, Malaysia
Well done Alex. It seems to run and drive nice. The blue points were a development designed to prolong point life due to the demands for longer service intervals and emissions compliance. If you move the little white cam the one side of the points moves across the face of the other side. This cuts down on the pitting. The cam needs a little pin to move on and obviously none of those distributors has the correct base plate to locate the points and the pin for the white cam. The advance and retard movement is what operates the cam. Quite a clever design I would say. In the close up you can see that one of the lobes on the distributor cam is rounded off and that is the one that was not opening the points. An excellent demo of this hard to diagnose issue.
Thank you. Yes it was a bit of a minefield and I thought I was on to something with the points. Still doesnt explain how the lobe wore done on just one side. Bizarre!.
I think that's the sweetest sounding A series I've ever heard.
George is back, well done Alex!
Great work Alex! Result! Good to see you carried out the startup and final fettling with the air cleaner assembly installed. Definitely affects the end result ;)
Good man. I’m glad you and George are back on the road.
Whey hey! Nice work. My first car was a 1983 VW Polo and this brings back many an oily memory! Points and dizzies rule!
Cheers mate!
Enjoyed watching the engine swap,Georges new engine sounds really good.
Thankyou, I appreciate it :)
Top tinkering! Well done Alex!
Well done Alex, a great job! Frustrations abound but well worth it in the long run. I knew you could get George back up and running! He needs to be out on the road, on the motorway, to stretch his legs.
Fantastic Alex. Well done. Great series to watch.
Many thanks!
Excellent news Alex.. well chuffed for you.. (Phil)
So nice to watch the drive in your Allegro - exactly same interior, including colour, as mine was!
Great job Alex - wonderful news that George returns to the road!
Was it just me - each time you mentioned the 'dizzy', the Bob the builder theme looped round my brain!
Well done Alex👍
Well done Alex!
Well done Alex grand sence of echmant very satisfying test drive the best bit 👍👍
That's fantastic! You must be thrilled!
That engine sounds really sweet, excellent job, well done.
Thank you very much!
Brilliant work Alex. The engine sounds sweet. Go George!
Great work Alex, I’ve really enjoyed this little series!
Awesome, thank you!
Great job and thank you for showing all the stages and how to do it, I’ve learned more!
No problem. Thank you for watching!
Awesome work Alex!
Austin Allegro...! I was an adolescent in Malaysia when this came out. Its advertisements appeared quite regularly, including on black-and-white TV. But from the 70s, European cars - except for the perennial status-symbol Mercedes - were having a very tough time against Toyota, Datsun and the emerging Honda. I have zero experience with the Allegro but it's good to see someone still working on it.
-- Selangor, Malaysia
Thankyou for your kind words :)
Well done Alex. It seems to run and drive nice. The blue points were a development designed to prolong point life due to the demands for longer service intervals and emissions compliance. If you move the little white cam the one side of the points moves across the face of the other side. This cuts down on the pitting. The cam needs a little pin to move on and obviously none of those distributors has the correct base plate to locate the points and the pin for the white cam. The advance and retard movement is what operates the cam. Quite a clever design I would say. In the close up you can see that one of the lobes on the distributor cam is rounded off and that is the one that was not opening the points. An excellent demo of this hard to diagnose issue.
Thank you. Yes it was a bit of a minefield and I thought I was on to something with the points. Still doesnt explain how the lobe wore done on just one side. Bizarre!.