The 'E' Type Forum

Steve, can I float this one to the surface again ? The link to the NRG product you used, Funky something or other, doesn’t hook up any more, and I expect the products have changed over the years. Would you be able to identify the NRG hub that you used, or would use if you were doing it again, please...

Might be delicate electrolytic pairing, the brass and the aluminium, although the manifold temperature sensor and the thermostat seem to survive ......... and as the steel original tends to weld itself to the aluminium anyway, the brass might be no worse a choice

Yes, Tim, that's definitely the way to go ; having the step-down in diameters at the manifold rather than at the bulkhead pipe will make zero difference to the flow through there.

Can you put the Ebay-link up, and a picture of it installed perhaps ?

Could anyone throw any light on this ? There was a promising thread here : https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14638 but the pictures seem to be dead. My car always had the heater-flap control cable coming out into the engine bay through the "sister" hole just above the water-valve cable. ...

Well, I never go to The Pub but have obviously been missing something. You bloody Influencers, you've just cost me the price of ordering Hooker's book, and the time spent watching two episodes of the Merlin assembly. My only interrogation would concern his use of a nylon-faced mallet to seat the bol...

It’s not wholly clear in my mind under what conditions our friend is measuring his “voltage at the pump”. Obviously the reading taken with a voltmeter on a disconnected feed-wire to the pump is of no value at all, as it is the sustained voltage under the pump’s load which we’re interested in. Anothe...

Check indeed carefully what SNGB are selling, as the last one I got from them was hopeless, uniform diameter along the whole length and unusable. Another part for the Doesn’t-Fit-But-Trop-Fatigué-To-Complain Pile that accompanies us all. Fosseway spec theirs as 182mm long with inside diameters taper...

Interesting.

I wasn’t ready to believe these were made in Oz until I saw the Crocs

Details are on Post #425 of the Megajolt thread.

It’s possible to neatly shrink-fit a much bigger toothed wheel onto the back of the oft-supplied (by UK retailers) ProRace damper, which is actually Australian. If you search in the Megajolt thread for rfs1957 you should find all the details from when I did it, I would send you the link but am fat-f...

I had my fingers poised over the keyboard to predict just such a problem, but you got there before me ! I had a similar problem on a DB5 over 40 years ago, when I was very wet behind the ears, and it was a lesson that has stood me in good stead ever since. Yes, those scalloped washers are there to e...

Abject apologies for failing to acknowledge Geoff and Jeremy for their helpful contributions. Geoff, your rivets look like they came from the inside, something tells me that I know the originals were riveted from the outside, not sure why I think that - anyone throw any light on this ? And on number...

Yes, yes, I know this has been flogged to death and as a nod to previous exchanges here is a résumé of what I think has already been written. https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16547&hilit=3.8+starter+cable+routing https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15567&hilit=3.8+starter+cabl...

Wondering if anyone can throw any light on this earth ? There's a 5/16 eyelet earth terminal, carrying two blacks, that accompanies the heater-relay spur, where it's mounted on the RHS of the header-tank cradle. https://i.postimg.cc/mk39TLG1/IMG-20240117-165819-edit-51384340529138.jpg It's also ther...

The exit for the bonnet sheath is positioned, to my mind, in such a way that no other run is possible. At least with this Autosparks loom. If you stay high, on the top picture frame traverse, the bonnet bifurcation would be somewhere around the water pump pulley. And once you got to the fan-relay an...

Repeat after me : " I promise not to use zip cable ties on the final version ". https://i.postimg.cc/RFrN8bCQ/DSC01248.jpg https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9131&p=71286&hilit=ties#p71286 I got laughed at in the playground seven years ago with my tightening-tool, but I swear it does a go...

Just to distract you all on a Sunday, before the wiring topic, how about these for a wardrobe find chez a distant aunt, whom we knew went to Le Mans in 1957 ............ https://i.postimg.cc/HWtvBGQW/IMG-20240114-112055.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/PJK6xZtv/IMG-20240114-112114-edit-411758432917897.jpg h...

As I had some pictures from querying these retainers with Andy Raynor at Hutsons, I thought I'd add some to this thread as an intro to the question I want to ask. https://i.postimg.cc/bYKygG1Y/ARROWED.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pV9VKQh1/IMG-20231120-135928.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/13S9xLWL/IMG-2023122...

Some of the links to the drawings and photographs for this article had evaporated over the years, as someone has just kindly pointed out.

I have re-established them, and if anyone else had been frustrated by this, it's worth taking another look.

Indeed, same approach with no head on, bolt a strap across the block, with a spacer of some sort, then approach it from both directions and divide by 2.