The 'E' Type Forum

Thanks Steve, they seem to be fine when warm. It’s just the choke operation that doesn’t seem quite right. I understand how it should work (I think) I just can’t seem to get the butterflies opening early enough in the sequence. I’ll play around some more.
Colin.

Hi all Please can anyone tell me how much the throttle butterflies should open on the first operation of the choke? There seem to be four distinct notches on the action, the first is minimal movement and seems to just take up cable slack, the 2nd is where it seems the butterflies should open slightl...

Now gone off to Speedy Cables. I assume I can put a loop across the two white cables in the remaining part of the connector block and keep driving in the meantime?
Thanks all.

As an update, borrowed another tacho this afternoon, plugged it in and it works fine, so at least I know what needs doing!

Yes, exactly right Tim

Hi Tim. The 3 way connector (2 whites and green) can only go one way, and the actual connections haven’t been touched, only the main block was disconnected then reconnected as far as I know. Thanks anyway though.

Thanks for the tip Darryl. Sadly I have just put it back together with a new earth on the case screws and still nothing! Frustrating but not unusual!

That’s about right. I made a cradle on casters to move mine about in the garage.

Evening all. My S2 came back from the trimmers (dash came out) with a few electrical gremlins which were easily fixed, but the tacho has stopped working. The car has elec ignition but always has had and nothing has changed there. Car starts and runs fine so no ignition issue that I can see, and test...

Thanks guys. Steve, yes an external spring on the slave. I have lengthened the pushrod to ensure it can still bottoming out in the cylinder with the shallower thrust bearing fitted and adjusted to the 1/16 free play, but I’ll double check just in case it wasn’t fully in. I’ll also try the bleed tric...

Hi Geoff, cheers for the tips. It’s both actually, changing down and stationary. It’s really odd. So generally I’m approaching the junction, crawling in second and trying to find first. No joy, so at rest I’m into neutral and then trying again, no luck. Re the bleeding there were two of us. I held t...

Hi all, need some help with a clutch issue please. 2 years after starting a full rebuild I have just done my first shakedown miles, 7.5 to be exact. 3 identical trips of 2.5 miles each, with the same issue occurring at exactly the same point (about 2 miles). When I get to this point I can’t select f...

I had the same issue in exactly the same place prior to my rebuild and a dowty washer fixed it for me.

I would start with the gauge/sender test and if ok check coolant circulation assuming the rad/fans are good.
Good luck, been there myself recently!

Thanks Steve, the large spring in the cup obviously does the same job as the missing one in yours. Think I’ll try the SNGB replacement and pull the other one apart anyway.

Hi John
When Alan Slawson rebuilt my diff last year he recommended Castrol Axle Z limited slip 90.
Regards Colin

Will do Steve thanks

Hi Steve, thanks. I guess they must come out but they are sprung (you can just about see the tang) so haven’t messed about with them at this point. It might be a fight to get them back in. But I think the only place I could washer is behind those internals as I need to push the whole set up forward ...

Steve, where exactly did you locate your washer to take up the free play. Here’s my pic, looks slightly different to yours.
Regards Colin.

Will do, thanks Steve.