Does it primarily smell bad when filled right up? If so, breather hoses...no-one bothers to fix them (common problem), so most do that. I never put more than £25 of fuel in my 1.4 to get around the problem

cheers

James

Ahhh, good work! Yes the Haynes book of lies doesn't even bother to get opened often now! If I figure it our wrong, that's my fault, but I'll probably get there quicker and with an open mind, rather than believing I am doing it right first time according to the book and keep trying!

Yes, large fine adjustment tools, aka hammers and mallets and pry bars are pretty useful. Good work, glad it's all sorted and drives well. Worth keeping an eye on the tolerances, and adjusting them as and when it's required. If you were incredibly desperate then I suppose some washers might do, however the surface area wouldn't be the same and they'd be pretty difficult to slot in and get into place.

Well done, another 300 saved, one fairly big job, but a replaceable item at the end of the day and you're car should be fine again. Rather than decide it's not worth a bit of time and money to do the job and buy something else to replace it, which it more likely to give you grief!

Pete

Pete

It kinda smells bad all the time - I never put more than 20 quid in it. The chief reason for that though is that if you fill it up, petrol pees all over the forecourt, so I assume a leak is present somewhere! I also get lots of leaks from the base of the carb since i recoiled the airfilter post mounts - this seems to be because the carb mounting nuts rattle loose, annoying rather than serious. If it gets noisy, I squeezed a 12 disc multichanger in the glove box, so I can just put that on loud......!