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  2. Gt6 mk3 two different front calipers

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    It is awkward Dan. I keep brake pipe and fittings and make my own up. So you can have say a metric male end going to a metric caliper and the other end English fitting to the pipe. But it's best to be totally one or the other then there's no mistakes. Definitely do not put English fittings into metric or vice versa the thread forms and sizes are not compatible. 

  3. Gt6 mk3 two different front calipers

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    hi dan, mines is a October 72 build and has metric calipers. don't know when your build was , but the age of the cars now they could have anything on. you`ll have to check carefully if the brake pipes are metric or English or both? and change accordingly. you can still buy new calipers at the club shop and elsewhere, or buy second hand and rebuild yourself if confident

    its difficult to guess by years according to the heritage records mine is built oct 72 and is non roto but not registered till june 73, has mostly late gt6 stuff but 72 instruments. but loads could have happened between 73 and now.

    I used to live in Washington and in fact all over the north east, ?

     

  6. distributor

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    thanks for all the advice lads, I have just found another distributor also from a mk2 2000  also a 25D. 

    Its amazing, I started the gt6 resto 7 years ago, but had to stop with work commitments and family, picked it up again now ive just retired. starting to stir the memory into what ive got and what ive not got, and sorting all the spares out in the garage, great fun. ive got more than I remembered, body off next for more weldies.

  8. distributor

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    Hello Clive. It is a gt6 mk 3. Never started or drove it yet. The deLco remy may be serviceable but the quality of the thing is crap I think its pretty worn. . So I bought one couple years back from a mk 2 triumph 2000. I only paid £20 for it. It's a 25d6. Doesn't have tach drive but I have an electric one anyway. Im way off starting yet but always thinking ahead. I was going to go electronic ignition later but the budget one. 

  11. distributor

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    thankyou colin very informative that. I will be changing my delco remy which is not good for a lucas, I aim long term to fit accuspark but want to get the car running first. I have a 25d6 from a mk2 triumph 2000 which I am going to fit.

  12. distributor

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    does anyone know what the numbers and letters mean on a lucas 25D distributor, I know the numbers stand for amount of advance and retard and mercury readings, and I found out about the week number and year made, but my question is what does the letters stand for at the end eg. 41378B or 41314D etc so whats the A,B CD stand for?

  16. paint

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    11 hours ago, Waynebaby said:

    Ian,

    I’ve brushed the shop cellulose on the floor of my GT6. It works best when cold and you need a well loaded brush to avoid marks (it’ll start dragging within a minute) I’d recommend you don’t do this on anywhere that’s not going to be covered up though.

     

     

    13 hours ago, daverclasper said:

    I had a part tin supplied with car, of what I assumed was celly (as the brush cleaned well with celly thinners). only thing I noticed when using a brush, was that it starts to dry very quickly (especially in warm weather), so if doing bit more area, than a small touch up it has to go on quick.

    Dave

    thanks for the tips about the celly chaps. I think ill just prime and red gloss it as I was going to do. ill keep a lookout for japlac, reckon it was bought by international paints.

    next job is body off,  but a couple of weeks away yet as I need to tidy the garage. I was going to put the body on tressles which I was going to get some wood and make, but I picked up  couple of mk1 black& decker workmates so ill use those, they take 165kg each so be well ok. their a lot stronger looking than the new ones. form there ill be measuring up for the rotisserie. so that's my next few jobs.  great advice on here, thanks. when I start in earnest ill do a resto page on the resto chapter. itll be slow though. 

  17. paint

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    thanks for the replies , I know its not seen and I bought a tin of gloss red (cars pimento) but its a bit too red, just wondered if you could brush the clubs cellulose straight from the tin. I was going to buy the club paint anyway when I paint the car but im years off that yet, but was thinking to buy early to paint the floors, that's another thing does cellolose keep? I would guess best use it when its new .

  18. paint

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    can you brush paint the cellulose sold in the club shop, I am thinking off brushing the new floorpans  and interior so they are the correct colour. I don't have spraying equipment  yet. 

  22. What's the correct term to use?

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    I like colin was lucky and had an excellent company pension, I went at 61 after working there for 30 years all my human bits still work ok so I feel very lucky. I didn't think much about retiring before, but we had a good plan to move house and I still have a young family, so the house and family keep me busy, the house is about done now so at last I am getting back on the triumph . I am really enjoying retirement when 5 years ago I didn't think I would. now I don't know how I fitted work in.

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