Ben Caswell

Just set the engine at TDC on number one and then take the dizzy cap off and see where the rota arm is pointing.

Does that include crossed threads !! ;-)

I carefully cut off a piece of heater hose and shaped it to fit seemed to work OK

If you are desperate and they are the glass tube type you can try drilling a small hole in each end with a modelling drill. Then use household fuse wire and re-solder the ends. Its a bodge but its better than wrapping the fuse in silver foil??

There should be a pad of insulation that's held in between by the mill board and studs.

Parts book list it as "Button" 609412 but Colin is right as above. I think there should be some sound insulation behind the mill board.

Moss europe do an uprated heater for the MGB that is a similar design but its one hell of a price!! https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/201934993056?chn=ps&adgroupid=54713418609&rlsatarget=pla-411723812150&abcId=1133926&adtype=pla&merchantid=101717694&poi=&googleloc=9044924&device=c&campaignid=1057752920&crdt=0

Bexleyheath Broadway I saw my first Triumph Vitesse here walking to school been a small Triumph fan ever since.

A tired mechanical fuel pump may struggle to over come a vapour lock while its hot!!

Well I have been a bit cheeky and borrowed this from the classic rover forum "Well I have done some investigating and have found the following. The AC valve chamber inlet and outlet ports are not BSP threads,...tapered or straight. So what might they be? I took the valve chamber to Pirtek, the fellow looked at it, scanned the wall of containers before him and then reached into one, pulled out a brass fitting and voila...perfect fit. So what was it? The fellow said it was an SAE thread. I thought.."fair enough" but....behind the threads leading into the pump there is a taper which provides the seal. On the brass fitting there is an extension behind the threads and then the taper which seals against the port taper. So I did some reading and suitable SAE fittings typically have a 45 degree taper, where as the fitting that I had provided a 30 degree taper,..corresponding with the taper within the port. That means that it had to be something else. As best I can tell it is a NPT fitting,...in this case a NPSM which is a National Pipe Straight Mechanical fitting. Both NPT and SAE are American threads and both have the same thread profile. AC Delco..being an American company, it would seem logical that the fittings within would also be American in profile. The same applies to the AC fuel filter, the thread on the swivel nuts and their fitting arrangment with the olives and accompaning pipes being NPSM. As for the size thread size of the fittings,...still not 100% sure but 1/4" seems likely with 5/16" barbs. The fuel delivery lines are all 5/16". Ron. " Im sure Ron won't mind if it helps!! However another post suggests that they are BSP (British Standard Pipe thread) which was my original thought. Cant you clean up the original fitting and pipe and use that?

If all else fails try an upholsterers or use a length of old seat belt !

Would the weight of the thicker flywheel make any difference the weight of the front pulley. I vitesse "ised" a saloon engine and both the flywheel and front pulley were considerably heavier on the saloon??

Lesson 4 use the correct tool !!

See eBay item number: 273035218754

Haynes WSM issue 010 page 105(removing the gear box) photo3. 7. Paragraph 6 and 7 Says where fitted this stay restricts the fore and aft movement of the power unit.

Not the cheapest http://www.cjautosheywood.co.uk/adjramp.shtml

See the Quality Street tins always come in handy but who ate all the toffee ones?

The builder ran out of bricks so he said "bung a low roof on it!!"

You could try making one out of a small stainless steel egg cup??

Rhubarb thats why the teeth have a lead in just make sure its round the right way,

I think we are getting a bit anal now??

Algy I have sent you a message re your Marlin

We shall soon see https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182865306857?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

the turnbuckle nuts. Staring Hinge and Bracket ;-)