Club Arnage

Show me the dates on the ferry ticket again.....

Hope you're not away with work for the next 5 weeks H!!!  :o

Lol BigH - if that is part of your transport to LM this year, you might be needing two of the items on your workbench - cos there is a good chance you're gonna be stuffed!  :o

F

 ;D I've got a simillar amount of work to to to the Z100 in the next 6 weeks.

One engine needs the tappets reshimming and the other needs a new output shaft on the gearbox. I'm thinking it'll be easier to just stick to new'ens in it. The added problem for me is that at the moment the car is 150 miles away and I may have a trip out to Saudi between now and June (although at the moment I think I'm saved by not having two pages free in my passport  ;) )

There's nothing like a bit of pressure! One of our group normally ends up rewiring his car the day before we leave!

Simon

BigH>> is that only one valve per cylinder ???

I gotta finish this before I even start on the car.

D.A.

Sorry, didn't mean to post it 'actual size'

D.A.

hmm yes, might be an idea to try and resize...
maybe via www.uploadit.org ???

On Saturday evening we cooked the engine on our SAAB rally car, spent half the night rebuilding the engine (and its a V so has 2 heads to do!), got it back in to take the start of a Rally on Sunday morning and finished top ten!!!

If it can be done in 1 night I'm sure you can cobble the motor together in 5 weeks H. Have faith- she will be ready.

As for my old Merc Fintail that I wanted to take down for the umpteenth time - still in the garage with no paint, no brakes, propshaft, wheels etc. etc.
Oh well next year then!!

Jimmy Mack! I've just had my mouse stuck behind Dickies U-bend for the last couple of hours.

Paddy, the thing on the bench is what engineering coves call a hemi head (there are a couple of fine specimens of hemi heads get down my local but that's another thing). You probably know all this, but basically the combustion chambers in the head are hemispheres, and the second valve is hidden on the faces nearest the camera.

Fran, thanks for the advice. The only advice I can give is: whatever you do don't get the grinding paste confused with the Anusol. And to be honest, that should stand anyone in good stead.
H

Or with the Canesten  :-[

Hmmm...

Holy cam-carriers!

It's not a minor job then H? When you said you had overheating problems I had visions of a new thermostat or something.

Appropos of not much, my Grandad used to be a Jag dealer in the 1950's and early 60's. He ran many an S type and Mark II, including the fabled 3.8 and knew them inside out. He loved the cars, but was never too keen working on the engines.  But from what I can remember, he always reckoned keeping the cooling system in pristine condition was of paramount importance, insisting on regular flushing with radiator cleaner and running the correct antifreeze mixture to prevent corrosion and deposit build up. Absolutely spot-on valve and ignition timing to prevent pre-ignition were his mantra too. Not easy when the product of Joe Lucas enter the equation.

I'd ask him for his advice, but unfortunately he's dead now, bless him. As far as I know, he never messed with Anusol, but he was a stickler for Fybogel (The Bowel Regulator) and Fiery Jack.

BigH I'm a little worried by that milling swirl by number two. Is it OK with the straight edge?

Beautiful lump of metal though.

 :)

Bill

(always summat though ain't there? I'm wondering if the flutter on my clutch pedal means I have to pull the five speed out of the Midget again... One broken diaphragm spring plate already since Christmas!)

which conversion did you go for in the end bill?

H
Is that a tube of preparation H next to that pot of Vaseline??
You just can't leave it in the bedroom like the rest of us,can you?

PM

Nearly there now...



Being dead shouldn't be such a big hurdle to leap, not if you try eating some of the stuff that grows in the hedgrows around Aldermaston. I once got in touch with my great Uncle Herbert, who I didn't even know I had until I came down from the Fybogel addiction. Fybogel cold turkey is a place no-one needs to go to. I was on 3 sachets a day and nodding terms with Bill from Dynorod before getting help.

Bill, the milling swirl is pretty well invisible in the flesh, just a change in direction of the 'grain' left behind I reckon. It could be a greasy lubricant imprint I suppose, but I don't remember anyone sitting on it.

It's one of life's ironies I guess that things that you shouldn't get confused with - grinding paste, Fiery Jack, Anusol, and that stuff for 'embarassing itching' can be mixed together so easily.

Chris, in the end I was stuck with the ford 5speeder, but I wont pretend I'm too happy with it, The box has been in and out twice with clutch problems, the first time out it was because the diaphragn spring plate ruptured. Half the fingers worked and the other half just went all "floppy".

And to top it all the pedal has started bouncing around under my foot AGAIN! Works OK but feels absolute sierrahotelindiatango.... Again!

Might have it out again next week! [no please no sniggering at the back!]

 >:(

I have to say BigH, they swirls don't usually cause concern, just that the head looks so perfect otherwise, tha knows. :)

Bill

It's the copaslip and mallet next to it that worries me. Suerly they can't be that bad you need to go that far to get them back uo :o

I've got a small pre-LM job list for the cobra to be attended to.

I've just come back in from the garage after doing a complete brake fluid change and bleed - just as well, the old stuff was the colour of Tate and Lyles Golden Syrup!

To do includes checking brake pads, greasing my nipples and topping up the diff - then we're GO.