Lead In An Unleaded Head?
#1
Posted 02 August 2018 - 04:52 PM
Anyways, going to pick up my new mini this weekend from Italy and drive to Austria. It's a 1990 Mayfair 998.
Just asked the seller if he tanks unleaded or adds lead. He said he runs it on super95 without any lead added.
How can I know if the engine has been rebuilt for unleaded or not? He said the engine was "done" a few hundred km ago... But his English is so bad(and my Italian even worse) that it's hard to get answers like this out of him...
Should I take a risk and run lead-free or add just to be safe? Any negative effects of running lead in a non leaded and vice-versa?
Cheers
#2
Posted 02 August 2018 - 05:30 PM
adding an additive wont damage anything.
#3
Posted 02 August 2018 - 06:35 PM
A 1990 Mini should have come from the factory unleaded and normally there is a green unleaded sticker visible when you open the bonnet. I had a mid-1989 998cc Mini Mayfair which was unleaded from factory (and had the late type brake servo update factory fitted).
Edited by mab01uk, 02 August 2018 - 06:40 PM.
#4
Posted 02 August 2018 - 07:33 PM
#5
Posted 02 August 2018 - 09:25 PM
Surely the previous owner can tell you!
#6
Posted 03 August 2018 - 06:19 AM
When was the unleaded only neck fitted to the fuel tanks?
Wait, that's a thing?
#7
Posted 15 August 2018 - 10:54 AM
Bet the mini was too early but moderns have a smaller diameter neck so the diesel nozzle won't fit!
#8
Posted 15 August 2018 - 11:12 AM
When was the unleaded only neck fitted to the fuel tanks?
1992 I believe, when the anti siphon device was fitted
#9
Posted 15 August 2018 - 07:33 PM
Wait, that's a thing?When was the unleaded only neck fitted to the fuel tanks?
Yep, putting leaded through a catalytic converter ruined them, I've got a 1994 built mayfair complete with the restrictor in the filler neck.
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