Hi Richard:
I'd be interested in the diaphrams as the one I cobbled together was made from a piece of a fuel pump diaphram I had lying about... I have no idea if the material is the same specification as the original... it felt the same and miked out to the same thickness. The fuel leak caused by the original torn diaphram actually led to a brief but exciting engine fire!
Any advice you can throw at a couple of FV432 luddites will be welcome. My chum Ken is smitten with the beasts and has been putting in a lot of hours trying to get them to perform. We have done well considering... they hadn't been run in over five years and were not prepared for storage in any way... fuel gum everywhere, water in all the places where water shouldn't be (transmission sumps, etc). Right now we have them running after a fashion... real problems with developing any power. One, which was running passably well has suddenly lost power and sounds like it is only running on half the cylinders.... yada, yada, yada! The joys of Rusty Old Truck Syndrome!
Most our main problems right now have boiled down to fuel and developing full power. Hair tearing will be the next step!
On the B81 do the two barrels of the carb each serve four cylinders? If so it might explain some of the low power problems we are having.
Let me know what you would like for the diaphrams and I'll get you an address to send them to in Bristol. I'll be in touch about the other bits. Due to temperature extremes here right now we are cutting back on outdoor work in an effort to preserve flesh from frostbite. We can still pull a carbie and work on it indoors, tho'.
