30-03-2024, 11:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-03-2024, 11:06 AM by Malcolm Parker.)
All the above smoke stories pale into insignificance when one of the floating gudgeon pins in my Ulsteroid special gouged a groove in the cylinder during a trip to the Scottish Highlands. I changed the late cylinder head with an early head that had 18mm plugs to keep it going. It ended up doing 20 miles to the gallon of oil. It would still run and I set off on the way back to North Yorkshire, stopping in the Kwik Save in Kelso to buy a trolley load of cheap oil which at the time was £1.99 a gallon. I blasted over Carter Bar with Andy Hastings following in his similar Ulsteroid. Unfortunately he broke the crank trying to keep up by the Otterburn ranges and we both got a lift back home courtesy of the AA and RAC. Having followed in my smoke screen, Andy and the car looked black. Happy days.