Pete Lewis

The oldest owned was quite modern a 53 pahes 5 Hillman Minx, in fire engine red the oldest I have driven was the 1913 Commer Car simon fire engine wooden wheels solid tyres and 3 speed pre select gearbox column gear change and a glass flow oil gauge, cranking her up was challenge, it once threw me across the workshop she was in service at Chivers jam factory till around 1959 Chrysler take over sold the family silver and she disapeared , but has been seen on london brighton runs I drove her round the factory when I was around 19 in 1964 I have also driven the Ecurie Ecosse Transporter out of silverstone with the cars ontop before she was sold . jus more waffle pete

Derek, Where are you located

A steam lance is used in manufacturing so a it of bundy to make a lance connected to a wallpaper stripper will work well on wrinkles, poke it up under the cover they dont like it up em ! Dont use a hot air gun,,, too hot Pete

If you sense a noisy one use a old feeler with engine running , ifit goes quiet expect the wear to have upset your feeler feel. on the bright side a noisy one with a actual gap is better than a tight one without enough gap Pete

You set a tappet to the desired gap, with feelers Fit the click and turn it to zero the clearance and count the clicks as you turn the knob. so next rocker fully up you turn to zero clearance and unscrew the number of counted clicks you should end up with the previous desired feeler clearance Well something like that pete

good idea but can you be more specific ?? there s lots of blue bosch coils eg http://www.ratwell.com/technical/BlueCoil.html

my dark blue is the 2000/2500 manual and its ok in there leon always had a plan on the old forum (dont read too much into this idea ) 15 to young 36 too old 24 just right helps you remember ha ! Pete

Theres no torque given in any triumph manuals my father in law always stripped or sheared the tappet screws on his cortina, hence the gorilla notes only the spherical tip is hardened the threads are just normal , if you take a full 5/16 nut hard face fixing as 18 to 20lbft then a half nut max is 10 lbft and possibly a bit less pete

Dave,The nuts are only half thickness so a light nip with a normal spanner is all thats needed , they only have to hold the screw from being turned by action of the revolving followers and push rod many get done up by a gorilla and then they are hard to undo , the threads get stretched and they are stiff to adjust on the tappet screw you need to do many many miles to see recession most wont ever find it the wear under the rocker will give a stepped face which most feelers will bridge so checking the actual gap can be difficult, dont see them around much but a wire feeler would work well as it fits in the wear platform there things like click adjust these eliminate the wear but you need to to set it acurately on one rocker to pre judge the number of clicks there are some with a micrometer style barrel which is better so you close the gap then back off the 0.010" but they are more expensive and harder to find most of my gagets stay in the unwanted draw and feelers used with care get my vote if thats good waffle pete

sound like the key is worn or from elswhere. sorry not much help here, there are some good key /barrel shops but i dont have the contacts maybe a google search others on here have suggestions im sure its normal that it works for the seller but fails with the customer ....odd that !!!! pete

Thats good Ive used a similar product on the 2000 windscreen ( laminated) the PO hade run a deep wiper marking and the glass poilish has with a drill and buff pad pretty well removed it pete

it probably doent have one just when these problems pop up it a component that can make headaches Pete

Going poly is may be the best compromise , stiffer than the orig, made to control the rack abutements like the originals there are wider alloys about that dont allow the shift problem , dont know whose .

The joys of classic car hobbies, deep pockets, strong tea bags, and I dont belive it previous owners. keep at it all will turn out smiles before long,,,,,, sometimes very long Ha you may now need to adjust the needles for a nice idle mixture. pete

As its stood all that time I woild as a matter of coarse rebuild the master cyl or fit a new replacement it may be the piston is stuck down the bore 13.60 is single line no pdwa valve to lock a system off. pete

There is a section for blonde moments, I started it , pete

Steve, Rimmers have a small chassis range sale on right now youmcould earn some brownie points

the master cyl pushrod must have some free play, with foot off it must be a rattling fit in the cylinder. if it doesnt fully return due to pedal seizure or or brake switch is holding pedal off, then the reservoir will not refill the cyl and if the piston end reservoir seal is not seating you wont pump anything just some ideas Pete

and always keep the end of the tube or ezi bleed under some fluid Pete

I'll have half if theŕe are some jars going You can always make a hole in the lid to keep the tube in place petwe

Yes I didnt get the down 1" but no resistance more clues please

Who said the bloody jam jar wont start

ive got in the dust a Mityvac pump to vacuum, and a ford derived electric pressure pumped bleeder by the time you get it all together a length of tube and a pedal assistant works so much easier one tip keep the tube and jar high above the nipple in on production we had a evacuate and fill which was utopia take it to zero HG then with no leak detected it self filled to the reservoir level never failed but not so easy to DIY. to make a ezibleed just plug the tube and add a 25mm slit witha sharp blade and you have the simplest one way valve. I have always been a down quick .,, back slow this forces the stuck bubbles out and back slow lets the recuperation take place rather than air sucked back from a nipple ...read what you like into that, whatever your mind is thinking Pete

There seems some oddities have occured from thendark or light side of wherever spoke to Garth today and he has fwd this post to the webmasters to see if there is a gremlin lurking within the e mail system, so dont know if its me colin them or us but dont stop trying pete

there will be std needles available both have limited clearance with the turret and need a thin airbox and tubed filter on the saloons dont know how that stacks up on a GT6 as soon as you use orrible pancakes you need needle or spring options to compensate for the lower intake depression.