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dougbgt6

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  1. Imperial Leather soap? Yup, none of this Metric Leather rubbish! Doug
  2. Just a small thing, I got new cones, thread turned out to be metric. Nuts on GT6 are captive Imperial, so new cones no good. I think the nuts on your car aren’t captive, but the cones don’t come with nuts so you may need new metric nuts. Club shop sell Imperial thread cones. Doug
  3. Failing body parts, me and the car. Doug
  4. Sadly I’ve probably only done 30 miles this year so looking forward 2034. 😆 Doug
  5. Lots of errors in Haynes. It has the GT6 mk3 overdrive and non-overdrive rear axel ratios interchanged. Doug
  6. Clive, who hasn’t posted on here for a while, had a couple of dozen of these thread converters made and passed them on at cost. He was BIG on stopping drain back and a big fan of Mann filters. Doug
  7. No it comes off and goes back easily. A minor job you might want to do is replace the gear lever bush mechanism, it's a weak point, wears easily, mine needs doing. There is a kit. Doug
  8. Gearbox is coming out attached to the engine surely? Much easier. (Don't call me Shirley!) And as you're disconnecting the exhaust bracket it will need a little support. Doug
  9. I had an ammeter, but the wiring got very HOT, so replaced it with a Smiths Volt meter, very nice, but by the time you've noticed the voltage dropping, it's too late! I have in my upgrade drawer a digital ammeter, the battery cable goes through a ferrite ring and the current sensed (I'm not sure how!) It has an LCD display, I think it's going to go in the ashtray? Doug
  10. One of ours at East Berks fitted his servo in the boot of his Vitesse. It worked fine. When you think about it there's no reason it shouldn't. Doug
  11. The rear drums are 1/2" wider than previously and the cylinders 1/8" bigger diameter. I think they did it, found it was too much with the servo on all 4 and to correct it took the servo off the back end. Engineering by trial and error. The cylinders are now hen's teeth, nobody has spares, except me! I got Paddock's last ever set about 5 years ago, they're waiting in my garage, somewhere. Doug
  12. I have a servo, late GT6 mk3 had one as standard, a Girling. It's actually an MOT fail to remove one if it was fitted as standard and before you say "How would they know? The MOT man told me that. Bizarrely it has to be there but it doesn't have to work, there's no proscribed test for it. Which was fortunate for me as mine never worked, the car was 5 years old when I bought it and the servo didn't work. Only in recent times have I fitted a Lockheed which does work. As Colin says It doesn't make any difference to braking you just have to push harder OK for "Thighs like tree trunks" Lindsay to say, but I'm 75 you know . I put the Lockheed on precisely to make the braking more like a modern. I've had a servo fail in a modern and you REALLY can't stamp hard enough to get the same effect. The servo sits between the Master cylinder and the slave cylinders introducing an interim cylinder which uses the vacuum to "amplify" the pressure to the slaves. I can see how disconnecting the vacuum might not give you the same as if you'd completely bypassed the servo. However, running around for 30 years with the non working Girling I can't say it was any worse than when I put the Lockheed on and initially it didn't work. On the mk3 the servo only works on the front wheels, on previous GT6s the servo was an option and worked on all 4 wheels. Odd! However once having got "into it" while fixing the Lockheed I tried it on all 4 wheels and very quickly put it back to front only. They had upgraded the rear brakes and putting the servo on all 4 made TOO much braking at the back. The Lockheed's problem was it had been poorly assembled in China. When I took it apart and cleaned it up I got it going, Nirvana! I wouldn't be without it, if it fails it will get fixed very quickly. Doug
  13. My rocker cover doesn't have a gauze, instead an arrangement of interleaved plates. I went on the interweb to find a diagram but could only come up with this link to a little known forum, some interesting exchanges including some one called daveclasper, any relation?
  14. I once had an MOT advisory "Excessive Under Seal" No wonder the ladies are smiling. Doug
  15. Yes, except the "O" rings still have to seal. When I duffed up my carbs the "O" rings were replaced, but I left the compensator adjustment well alone. Can't say I noticed any difference. Doug
  16. +1 for the 2 x 1p mod, many have done it. I haven't, I got Strombergs, we have temperature compensators, a far worse nightmare. Doug
  17. But have you ever seen them in the same room together? Doug
  18. It was most certainly NOT! The best portrayal of Marvin was on the BBC. Doug
  19. There speaks an adult speaking of their child. Once they are sentiment they will do what they want. We have given birth to the silicons. They will roam the galaxy not us. Doug
  20. That's the problem with AI, we've taught the machines to do it themselves. I always thought Terminator was an action movie vehicle for Schwarzenegger, but no! Doug
  21. Good to know Kevin. I think our site pretty forgiving speaking as a basic Anglo Saxon vocabularist. I got locked out of Telecaster Discussion Forum for referring to our beloved ex-leader Boris as a clown. Politics not allowed apparently. Bloody Americans, keen enough to show off their firearms! Doug
  22. 2024 approaches, do we have any tax disc plans, a nice yellow one to match my car perhaps? Doug
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