A little update.......
Spent the day on my car yesterday fitting & filling things
yesterday it got....
new front brake discs,
new pads
fresh coolant ( blimey that stuff ain,t cheap
)
drained & refilled the gearbox & diff with fresh fluid ( smelly sticky stuff )
new oil & oil filter ( went with 10 / 30w semi synthetic),
new plugs
new plug leads
Now, when I started the engine after the above work was done, ran really quiet, no tappet noise, thought...great, problem solved......but then the tapping noise slowly returned.....aaarrgh...........but then it goes away again...really frustrating, don,t know why its doing this?
after a while with the engine running upto temp, the revs at tickover rose to 2000rpm, wouldn,t drop back down........fiddled with lots of things, checked throttle cable was free & returning= yes, checked idle adjustment= correct.
A neighbour suggested it might be a sticky "something " in the carb, so took carb off, cleaned the insides with carb cleaner, all back together & it seems to have solved the high tickover
Whats really annoying me is this tapping noise , it comes & goes even when hot, so was thinking it can,t be due to the oil thinning out once warm....
any suggestions before I pull what little hair I have left out?
Oh & also fitted new gauges into the dash panel, looks good if I say so myself lol.
cheers
andy