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hobbit:
As stratie says, it should be a 5 bearing, unless someone has had a serious mess about with it, which would be doubtful

timberdog:
cheers..

Tell ya what it dont half run Quite..unless i am used to the Diesal..

It fired up first time from being dry as a bone in both Tanks i chucked a a capfull of Petrol down the Carb and it jumped into life.. :lol:

Trouble is i have been told that it shold have led content additive in it to run it as i put unleaded in it in desperation to hear it..as you do ..but i only ran it for about 15 secs or so in fear of damage Hobbit is this correct to add additive or have i been told wrong?

I read some on this year 1980 should be ok?

hobbit:
Depends if its been modded, I run normal fuel, but no probs yet.

I'm sure there are some people more knowledgeable on this not delat with it too much myself

The lead additive is quite cheap, loads for sale on ebay

bezzabsa:
2 schools of thought on the lead additive, 1 says that you can get away with 1 tank in 4 being 4* (ie lead aded)
other school says that unless you do silly mileage, the unleaded is ok..
as for running it for 15 seconds..not a problem..
funny thing was, i had a 1975 range V8 and was told ONLY to use 4*...as its an ally engine with low compression - i checked and it had the hardened seats fitted as standard..so unleaded it was..best part was it was supposed to be an 'expert' that advised me..never had a problem with unleaded, and 11 years later its still going strog (no longer mine tho;')

smog:
I would have thought by now 90% of LWT engines would have unleaded heads on them therefore presenting no hassles especially on a later engine.

That said there is no guarentee so if you are unsure use additive, best to be safe than sorry.

Don't suppose the engine is a recon or anything if so it might have a recon badge of who did it, if so call em if not can't help.

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