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Having given up on the cork seals for the Crankshaft Cap seal, i am going to take the advice and use RTV. Brittanicca uses Loctite 5580. I would be happy to get this but it takes a few days postage. If there something on Amazon Prime that works...

i know the real challenge is fitting the bearing caps in the block, but before i get to that stage, i need to fit my new cork t seals in their slots. As you can see the cork is much wider than the slot. I have soaked them overnight in oil, and...

I can't work out how to install this. Obviously, there is a clip-sized cut-out on the ball in the middle of the lever, but when i push the clip into the cut-out, it makes a leap for freedom and hides under the gearbox. I have tried moving the...

As per your advice, i have decided to wait for the hook-and-eye. I did remove the seal and have a closer look - from i can tell, the spring on this is not designed to come apart. Despite lots of twisting and wiggling, there was no sign that the...

new nuts on order. many thanks for advice

New chassis is now ready for installation of the rebuilt engine and the gearbox. I was thinking i would install the engine, all the ancillaries and see if i can get the engine running nicely, and then i would install the clutch / gearbox...

I noticed that the nuts i took off my con rods look like the ERC1029 part in my parts manual i.e. a nut with a nyloc-looking head. I was therefore thinking i ought to replace these with new ones - but when i look on the web ERC1029 has been...

Long story – with the question at the end: I ordered one of these from paddocks – it came with the Outer rubber ring (with the split to fit over the crankshaft) Inner spring that sits in the outer rubber ring Plus the 2 cork T seals. I had...

thank you all for your help - that did the trick (although on a separate but related note, when i tried to put the new curvy spring back on the brake expander, it pinged off and disappeared into another world, never to be seen again - just as...

I can’t work out how to fit this. Do I just push it down as far as I can along the operating rod and hope that it stays in the right place, or does something hold it in place? The picture in the (Series II !!, maybe i should look in Series...

Many thanks for comments and the photos. That now makes perfect sense. You have sorted it, i couldn't work out what was going on.

Thanks for the photo. I still have an issue - from what i can tell, the metal mounts that fit on the gearbox result in an attachment point at very different heights, which would seem wrong. Photo 2 seems to match your photo. Same side of the...

Just waiting for a few small parts (seals, bearings etc) I need to rebuild the rest of the gearbox. Looking ahead, I thought I would sort out the gearbox mounts. I have the 2 (fairly similar) parts that attached to the chassis, upon which the...

good point. that makes sense. thanks

I am rebuilding the gearbox. I can see on the parts diagram that there is an oil seal at the front of the gearbox for the primary pinion (571059). So i was expecting to see an oil seal on the layshaft too. But there is nothing on the parts...

I have just had this blasted, and thought I would remove the oil seal before I put some engine paint on it. But I am having trouble removing the oil seal. Being old the rubber has lost all strength and just comes off in small bits. I believe...

Having stripped my ignition lock in order to try and remove the barrel (and failed), i am having trouble getting it back together. It is a struggle to get the plastic components (with their springs, copper plate, ball bearing) all in place - when...

Excellent. On that basis, i will stop trying to take it apart. I will go get a couple of spare ignition keys made up, and then sort out my door / tailgate locks separately. Many thanks

I am still stuck on this problem, going around in circles (like the key!). I am trying to get the barrel out, so i can replace all the locks on the car (ignition, door, tailgate etc) with a common barrel/key. From what i have read, on the...

I think i have worked it out - and as usual, it doesn't show me in the best light. When i took the gearbox out a few months ago, I managed to damage the original bell housing, and so i had to get a 2nd hand replacement. I think the replacement...