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Gully

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  1. If you've got your fuel mixtures correct, you may find you simply need to increase the idle speed slightly. In the 10+ years I've had my GT6, whatever I do to it, it will never idle happily below 900rpm! However, the only 'hot stalling' akin to your issues that I've ever had was down to the mixture being too rich. Gully
  2. Donor vehicle for the one behind? Gully
  3. I successfully made use of the Black Circles lifetime warranty. They gave me an 80% credit on the hardly worn, perishing rear Bridgestone tyres. Gully
  4. I've been told that stands for Michelotti. Gully
  5. I found this difference when I fitted a new headlamp switch to my Mk 3. The original depended on the metal plate fixed to the reverse of the dashboard, whereas the new switch pushed straight into the hole in the dash. Both had the same escutcheon appearance from the front, which is obviously different to the hazard switch. My hazard switch is without escutcheon. Gully
  6. Go easy - the plate it's mounted on can fracture where it 90 degrees folds around the bottom of the quarterlight and then you're in search of a hens teeth replacement - and all to get a click... Gully
  7. Gully

    HQ Email

    Not my experience at all with the outdoor activities club I help run. We have great support from former members continuing as junior leaders and then continuing to volunteer. We also gain parent and teacher leaders from time to time. Problem with defunct marque-specific car clubs is that the vehicles cease to be relevant to younger people, so there won't be a pool of people to draw on or replenish those departing. Gully
  8. I don't have an issue with sensible booking fees which are reflective of the various charges levied by the providers involved. It's the blanket £5 - £10 per ticket which I object to as that's blatant profiteering. For instance, a club I'm involved with now has online ticketing for everything (we used to be cheques and paper forms via the post, which then had to be banked etc - we had to change as nobody has cheques any more). There are two charges for every online transaction - one from Ticket Tailor, who provide the front end event sales gateway, then a second fee from Stripe, who handle the financial transaction. These total around 3.5% per ticket, which we pass on in full to those booking, but they are actual costs. If booking fees have a blanket ban, we'd simply include that c. 3.5%in the ticket price. Gully
  9. Wonder if these issues extend to the non-recessed gaskets too? I've a Payen in stock for mine which I bought a few years ago (can't recall if pre or post 2020) - not needed to use it yet... Gully
  10. When I was involved with Vulcan to the Sky, we used to have Forum meets at the hangar - everyone wore name badges with their Forum Names on. Simples! Gully
  11. So I got an advisory regarding tyres starting to perish. The experience of the MOT station / garage is that it's now more common for tyres to need replacing owing to perishing cracks than running out of tread. Perishing at year 3 is not unusual for many brands - including 'premium' ones. All in the zero ozone depletion compounds... Gully
  12. That's my experience too. Gully
  13. Current set of Bridgestones on my modern have started to crack between the tread blocks. They've been on the car for 2 years and done c. 30k miles in that time. Plenty of tread left front and rear. Date code shows them as having been made only 6 months before I bought them. Will be interesting to hear what the MOT man says later today. Gully
  14. Yes, MOT every year. Always good to wander beneath the ramp and see what it looks like without crawling underneath! Also good to get an annual brake balance check. Gully
  15. Does this help? Shows the head ports below the thermostat. Gully
  16. I suspect you won't be able to rotate the spin on conversion to get a 'filter straight down' position - the chassis rails are in the way on the GT6... Best I managed was an angle around 7-8pm and significant problems changing the spin on filter between the PRV and rails. The Mocal conversion plate is sat on a shelf in the shed an the original filter bowl in place on the car. Gully
  17. Gully

    Cylinder heads

    Irrespective of the engine number, flat top pistons with that head should be correct. Both may have been changed from its original build... It sounds right that the crank case breather goes to the inlet manifold - hopefully via the Smiths valve. As for the D-type overdrive, a D-type is correct for a GT6. Gully
  18. I have CDSE 150 Strombergs on my Mk 3 - I've only tweaked them very occasionally, so these symptoms suggest to me that there's something else going on (carbs can't change themselves!). Possibly a case for going back to basics across all the settings - static timing, needles / jets positions. Just a thought - what air filters are you running? Are they non-standard and clogging / impeding the airflow? For bodywork, a couple of us have used Finishline in Graveley (near Stevenage) - not cheap, but good quality workmanship. Gully
  19. I think the correct term is prioritising... Parcels are where they make their money - the universal letter service offering is what's crippling their business. In my view, it's about time we recognised the greatly reduced number of letters in the system and switched to 3 letter deliveries per week. Probably the only way to keep postage stamp costs from escalating further. Gully
  20. On my Rotoflex GT6 there's plenty of adjustment in the tie bar adjuster to make quite a considerable difference to the toe. The way the geometry works, the adjuster is pretty effective. One side of mine was way out when I first had it, but straightforward to adjust. Gully
  21. Gully

    Fuel spill

    The slivers sit in the fuel lines and move against the float valves, then float back again - they rarely make it into the bowls. With the carb supply pipes removed, turnover the engine (or use the priming lever) to flush through the pipes. Then vaseline the connections before pushing the pipes back onto the carbs. Gully
  22. I decided it was worth the hassle - it's not a long job, particularly if you mark the castellated nut so you keep the bearings end float unchanged. Once the trunnion is unscrewed from the vertical link, a pipe cleaner is ideal for removing the grease from the VL. Gully
  23. Gully

    Coil

    Given that both elements of that domestic cable are connected to the -ve terminal, I suspect the PV has used whatever cable they have available to improve some dodgy grounds! Time to trace where it goes... Gully
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