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Harry
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Soon be sunny enough to get Ol Yella for some therapeutic thrashing

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just to echo what everyone else has said Russ ,sorry for your recent loss, speaking from recent experience it is not easy ,if you need an ear mate just shout .

Merc looks a good project mate, keep us updated something different is always a refreshing change :thumbs:

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Holly shit its been over a year since i last posted on this thread!!
Ok so its because ive done bugger all on the old girl.
So today i had Tim over to do a bit of work on her and try and suss out why its running so bad.
He started by replacing the turbo (again) He then spotted that the factory fuel reg was leaking slightly so he popped home to pick up a spare he had for a new age which we then had to mod slightly to fit.
New turbo on we took her up the road and it was running worse than ever! So back home again tim decided to whip the coils out and have a check...They were fine, So he whipped a plug out and done a compression check, That was excellent at 160.
The last thing he tried was to remove the bailey dump valve and block off the pipe. We then tried it up the road again and it was much better but still spluttering under full throttle.
His thoughts are now along the same line as mine were right back at the start in that its probably the mapping thats out. Possibly due to the dump valve starting to leak air when it was mapped??
So i still have `ol yella running badly and now have to buy another twin piston dump valve (not Bailey!) and then try and get hold of Duncan to have a look at whats going on with the mapping side of things. Fingers crossed i will then be able to get the other jobs done and actualy get some much needed track relief in!:)

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Bloody hell Russ a year to post something about your car.......almost as bad as Gareth and getting his car running again ......sorry G couldn't resist payback forbthe veilside comments. ....
Anyway stick with it mate.....it might be a long hot summer so lots of BP meets and track day / evening's here's hoping anyway

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john B wrote:Bloody hell Russ a year to post something about your car.......almost as bad as Gareth and getting his car running again ......sorry G couldn't resist payback forbthe veilside comments. ....
Ha ha ha fair point though :P
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Ha i knew you would jump on this .....

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Shame you are not more local Russ as essentially we have the same car we could swap all sorts over to elimiminate things
I know its fustrating as I had similar issues I could not find for ages
Small one's are more juicy

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You'll forget all about these hassles when you get her back out on track.
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So, Russ, have you fixed Yella yet?.
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I`m still waiting for Duncan to phone me back with a date to book her in to see what is going on. Its been over a week since I last spoke to him, I`ve emailed and rang with no joy.:banghead:
I know he`s busy, I just hope we get somewhere soon.

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