Pete Lewis

Sorry Roger I dont have any fwd manuals to compare data with it would be a guess and thats dangerous pete

You can see some of my side trim was missing, not overly obvious but even with it removed the slides can chop the tunnel carpet if the runners are too low, i had to fit spacers I miss the old girl but needs must pete why dont tablets print wot U type esp the spacebar Grr!

you mean.................your gearbox ha ! Pete

my mgf were already stripped out and used the std belt reel and centre stalk fixings which worked well if you adapt to use the orig tilt runners you wont need this idea which enabled the back to tilt with a simple latch into a redundant belt fixing Pete

the good old days in our Apprentice school (think ive mentioned before) a Apprentice bought a francis barnet 125 had a wooden piston quiet, but loads of smoke on the old forum (long lost archive) i seem to remember TR5 or 6 bought with with a misfire and found to have no6 piston and conrod removed Pete

http://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/classifieds_final.asp?classified_ID=2512 One photo isn at the past tssc stafford event its up for sale in the club classified ads pete

Not aware ive dumped any cookies or dumped the cache but will look in the morning see whats changed there was a big update by windows last week, maybe thats dumped something pete

Way back when I had hair, a mate brought a rover 2000tc quite cheap it pulls when you brake he says, they had I think a dunlop caliper and a disc with a deep relief where it turned into the hub face a siezed piston forces one side and the discs used to break off the hub register, this car had no disc but a nice bit of wood between the pistons to stop the moving one popping out nice !!!! pete

I have to log in on the laptop regarless of saving the page which always worked ok till this week however the ruddy tablet logs straight on, so is that odd or what pete

some have the heater manifold return fed into the hsg in the spare port called standardisation.....everything is similar but ends up very different

good subject John, but we need a short motor preferably a...... light one may be a plywood mock/model up to show the technique Pete

Glad the Bang was sound advise Hmmmm!!!! Dont do this at home go somewhere else !!! do be carefull that remind me when Bq built a warehouse at the back of our emmission dept they used Hilti guns and we had nails flying all over the place nasty things made holes in our concertina doors one day we collected around 30 stray nails , bang....duck ..... everybody down

Hi Doug thought you were heading up norf plastigauge are more for putting inside a clamped up journal you nip it up and the plastic spreads depending on the gap they have a chart to compare the spread and gives you a running clearance never tried one on a tappet arrangement you would have to crush it under the rocker , then try to remove it without deforming and measure what you have, you cant make them a size and set the gap too it. Good idea but dont think it will work pete

Ues thats not always used depends on model so its looking toothy brushy to the rescue some hsg and wp bolts go into the water jacket and corode, take removeale steady they can shear off pete

Does it have the 10 cut spline input shaft or the 18tooth rolled spline input shaft pete

They are powerd by a cartridge, so when its gone bang its safe afterwards sorry dont know, maybe a goole search will give a safe method

are sure its not a poorly stamped DG for dolomite Pete

none of those the 1st is a drain plug , and too low to give you the high temps. 2nd is the blank for the oil feed to the rockers if its anywhere some have a plugged tapping on the top surface of the head near the rear end alongside the rocker cover ...or not . as for cleaning soda blasting, washing soda, plumbers acid, sand paper , wire brush , brute force and your best mates tooth brush Pete

ive suggested 17th sept but needs Bern to confirm this ,, or its my house been a busy year with fixing problems locally and away ,what with area events wheres the year gone ??? Pete

Its been a busy season down here for running the area with runs every month , Chris and Bern have chased me up to do something at HQ so its in the process of sorting a date mid september to open hq for some disorganised twiddling . start with what I intened to do at home with carburretors , tappets, settings , tracking toe in , and a bit of gearbox explained that will do for a start and see how it goes more details once we have a firmed up, date in place....sorry whatch this space has taken too long but being spurned into activity has sparked a decision to make it work so whatch this space and the courier pete

Reminds me of being daft , needed to tack a split in the top of door glass apperture had repaired the Vit6 door and waxed the whole thing ,sitting on the workmate in the workshop and one touch of the mig and frightening flames 7ft high out the glass apperture. It was off like a furnace , nice updraft Then the extiguisher mess to clear up were not always as thoughtfull as we should be Pete

Is there a spare tapping in the rear o/s top of the cyl head, will it fit in there. if you go electric you are liley to need a voltage stabiliser and stabilised gauge with sender gtr108 if you manage to find an older moving iron gauge that are not stabilised you need sender 121997 you cant mix the two systems

Ive just turned the signposts around, well it worked for hitler pete

Sockets yes seen them in odd places we had a vitesse which just passed its MOT and had a soaked rear brake linning , an Mot really ....yes here it is Hmmmm!! May be the same A 'hole had repaired the wheel, cyl with wrong size seal so to expand it fitted it to the dust boot end and poked the piston in back to front well it leaked and the head gasket had blown out so only running on 4, apart from that it was a really nice car for sale with new MOT.

Looks like 13/60 , spitfire lll-1500 with type 14 calipers vintage part numbers 30660403/4 never vitesse pete