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Back on the Cortina, contact breakers have been cleaned. Next job is an oil change, better safe than sorry as the oil has been in the car for 45 years!

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Some years ago I had a Triumph Herald, luckily the 20/50 purchased at that time was available, so in it went.

Next up was to disconnect the ignition and spin up to make sure there is oil pressure.

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Oil pressure was all good, well at least enough to put out the idiot light

The time has come to see if the Cortina will spring into life after 45 years tucked away in a lockup garage.

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And…… after a slightly sticky starter it burst into life, on three cylinders to start but soon on all four.

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No carburettor adjustment required and it even idled cleanly on the 45 year old fuel. The engine is very quiet and we suspect that it was replaced not long before the car was laid up.

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Unfortunately we had to pay the price for the diesel and transmission fluid mix that we put down the bores for protection prior to starting, things got a little Smokey!

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We finished off the day by seeing if the gauges worked and found that appear to do so, along with the horn, this however sounds a little unwell

Back soon!

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