She’s still going… New MOT and recent trip to Rock Cornwall with my farther and son who’s now old enough to drive. Three day road trip with XK120 and XK150. All broke down, including Rusty outside Richard Hammond’s smallest cog workshop. Great fun, further trip planned next year….

Just back from four day trip to Reims and a visit to Circuit De Reims. Accompanying Rusty was an XK150 and V12 E Type. All cars worked well in 35 degree heat, Rusty’s AC was enviable to other drivers. We had leaking fuel lines, loose oil filter and blown coolant hose but all cars made it back from R...

It’s been a difficult year for Rusty. Since Monaco we have had a few issues. Firstly a burnt out MAF sensor, probably caused by a stuck thermostat causing engine to run cold and gum up air intake. At the same time unrelated fuses popped causing more confusion. Then a failed MOT for rust and lights n...

Update on Rusty, it appears to have been the Maf. The thing that made me think it was worth taking a chance was my air flow readings were zero. Plug in new Maf and she runs great again. I think it was caused by stuck thermostat and cold running engine causing excessive engine breathing, vapours that...

Thank you for info, Maf reading is zero at all Revs, disconnecting it makes no difference to reading’s or engine running. The temp sensor seems to be working, temp increases Gradually to 90, if I unplug it shows -40. This makes the engine stall, I guess it richens the mixture more as car thinks it’s...

Really appreciate your help, got the lights working that was just blown fuses, strange they all blew at once but anyway all good now. Back to the rough running engine, have been over everything suggested and nothing makes a difference. Only thing my plug in says MAF air flow 0, have attached some li...

Everything works other than rear tail lights. Indicators & break lights are ok. Very strange, Going to check a few things over weekend.

Possibly some progress, I have no back lights (indicators, break lights ok) Is the fuse or some sort of connection to the back lights that could be causing my problem?

Is this just a massive coincidence or more to it ? The very same day this problem started I had the break light bulb failure warning when breaking. I haven’t checked if it’s just the bulb but I was thinking last night that I have never had a bulb failure or warning light until the very same day my e...

Update on the Daimler or as known now Dave the Daimler. First thing Dave turned out to be SWB, which I prefer the look of and fits in the garage. Dave has had a full service, including gear box that meant removing the exhausts, that I would never have done had I known how much work that was. Thermos...

Did a super quick throttle body removal, back side of that was clean, inlet manifold looked clean enough and low idle inlet is clear. Breather system clear and breathing. Scanner flagged up a load of MAF errors, I cleared and didn’t come back but engine fault still the same. I’m thinking replace the...

Thank you for help, sounds like this weekends project. I will update on progress

Thank you for interest, I’m guessing stat is stuck open as temp gauge fluctuates from nearly normal to almost in the blue. To start the engine, I initially crank with fuel pump working. This results in a very short start and immediate stall. Then I must remove the fuel pump fuse and the engine will ...

Not sure what’s happened but after a short while of running cold, Rusty has decided to not like starting unless fuel pump fuse is pulled out, otherwise it’s like she is flooding. Lots of oil around throttle body and appears to be blowing more out the breather. Has she finally had enough?

It was a rush but that’s almost part the adventure. It would be great to have at least a few more days. We did manage one full day and two nights in Monaco.