After trying everthing I could to make the Elan engine stop smoking I’ve admitted that the mechanic I used to rebuild the engine didn’t know what he was doing. To fix things, I’ve pulled the engine and will be sending it out to one of the local specialists.
Before you ask who did the rebuild last time, it was me.
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Jim – who has written 327 posts on UniBrain Trust.
Jim is the curator of UniBrain Motorsports, our resident photographer and the only one in the family to shoot a perfect 25. He enjoys eating Nadya's cooking and tries his best to stay out of her way while in the kitchen.
There is an old saying in the legal profession: “A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client”. I don’t know what that has to do with pulling engines, but it seemed relevant somehow. Come to think of it, it has no relevance whatsoever.
BTW, I spent a summer in high school dropping a VW Bug engine and restoring it. That wasn’t so hard, but then compared to an Elan a Bug engine is like a gerbil wheel.