When inspecting the choke on the original Pierburg carb on the Scirocco, I noticed an awful lot of play. So much in fact, that I was able to lift the full carb off. The carb seemed to have parted from it’s base plate, or had just been set on top of the base plate or something. So this weekend me and the brother (and a friend on saturday) took to taking off the pierburg to replace it with a 32/34 weber that I had sitting about and hadn’t bothered putting in the scirocco yet. As of writing this, we aren’t finished just yet. We have yet to find a way to fix the choke cable to the carb, and we haven’t got all the loose pipes sorted out yet.
Since the last update on the Ford, the engine has went back together, and been taken for a run. The timing belt however, came off again this weekend because I don’t think it had ever been on properly. I didn’t get it back on yet though, so it’s still sitting on the drive for another couple of weeks.
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