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- Sat May 18, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Series 1
- Topic: Clutch slave cylinder- delay in retracting
- Replies: 13
- Views: 871
Re: Clutch slave cylinder- delay in retracting
All suggestions are welcome. So you have plenty of air still in there. 1/ Disconnect the clutch slave pushrod from the fork linkage into the bellhousing 2/ Push the rod all of the way back into the slave 3/Attach a suitable hose onto the slave bleed nipple and terminate the other end of the hose in...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: 6 cylinder in a series 3?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 314
Re: 6 cylinder in a series 3?
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Marek
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Marek
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: 6 cylinder in a series 3?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 314
Re: 6 cylinder in a series 3?
Any thoughts? Pretty much nobody here will have experience or have even seen one of the few s3 etypes fitted with an xk engine. I'd suggest you scour the web, including xkedata.com, and take a look at the engine bay of the four or six (can't remember) s3 etypes with xk engines. After that, look at ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: Help with air con resistor clips & bracket
- Replies: 7
- Views: 443
Re: Help with air con resistor clips & bracket
Still got your old Meccano....?
kind regards
Marek
kind regards
Marek
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Series 2
- Topic: Wrong Distributor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 432
Re: Wrong Distributor
However well or poorly the distributor is matched to the engine is a red herring - it's still that well calibrated 20 minutes later. An xk engine clearly works over quite a range of answers and the engine doesn't know what car it is connected to. You have a spare coil (albeit of unknown quality), so...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Series 2
- Topic: Wrong Distributor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 432
Re: Wrong Distributor
I presume your car has been running perfectly well with an xj6 distributor for many years. The only two relevant facts about the distributor from one xk engine versus another are 1/ what centrifugal (mechanical) advance does it give and 2/ what vacuum advance does it give? Neither are related to som...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Voltage regulator problem??
- Replies: 7
- Views: 475
Re: Voltage regulator problem??
It's a little known fact.... that Danny is also the policeman from 'Allo 'Allo
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Marek
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Marek
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Metallic rasp/rattle under acceleration 2500rpm
- Replies: 6
- Views: 493
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: S3 Heater Install
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1484
Re: S3 Heater Install
There should be a thick heavy spring mounted onto the two red lugs where you have green arrow shown. When activated, it is hard to compress until it suddenly flips. This snaps the door open or shut and makes it change state.
kind regards
Marek
kind regards
Marek
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: Needles for SU carb conversion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2683
Re: Needles for SU carb conversion
I added about 0.002" of solder to the top of the needle only in the idle range, and only on one side. The neatest way to do that would be to coat/dip the end of the needle in plumber's solder flux and then apply the solder immediately thereafter. The solder will "take" to where the flux is as the a...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Series 2
- Topic: Turn signals won’t work
- Replies: 2
- Views: 468
Re: Turn signals won’t work
You need to get hold of a circuit diagram for the car. Then you need to progressively test with a meter the indicator paths/parts which are not common to both indicator and hazard, to see where you do and don't have voltage along the path according to the circuit diagram. Finally, if you isolate whe...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: timing chain guides adjustment
- Replies: 3
- Views: 668
Re: timing chain guides adjustment
On the basis that the ones you have at the moment are original and in the right place, replace like with like by putting a shim in against the chain between the ungouged part of the guide and the chain and score the front of the block with a scribe. Other than that, the special tool would be the onl...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Series 1
- Topic: SU Fuel Pump Electrical Issues
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1012
Re: SU Fuel Pump Electrical Issues
Now getting 11.36 volts to the pump wires but still not running unless directly connected to the battery. I'd expect a drop of 0.25v from the front to the back of the car with a brand new harness and all of the parts in between. I'd expect a 0.75v voltage drop on a 50 year old car, so you have elim...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: engine sealants
- Replies: 2
- Views: 656
Re: engine sealants
My experience is that a good pcv system, i.e. one that keeps the crankcase pressure below atmospheric pressure, is the best way to avoid leaks. Other than that, Kirby Palm recommends Loctite 518 between the head and the cam tower.
kind regards
Marek
kind regards
Marek
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Series 1
- Topic: SU Fuel Pump Electrical Issues
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1012
Re: SU Fuel Pump Electrical Issues
You can say "fuse 6", but remember you are coming off of the unfused side of fuse 6. It's the green side which is fused, not the white side. The white side is just another connection link in the chain.
kind regards
Marek
kind regards
Marek
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:47 am
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: Sandblasting bonnet
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5197
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Series 3
- Topic: Engine Tuning issues Early UK Series 3
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1591
Re: Engine Tuning issues Early UK Series 3
There is nothing wrong with advance per se, just how much advance. With retard fitted, it only gives retard at very low rpm, so providing you have blanked off the bottom left hand carburettor vacuum port correctly, your only new factor is additional advance at mild throttle openings. Since you haven...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Series 2
- Topic: Stromberg Tuning - Fuel Bowl Plug
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2485
Re: Stromberg Tuning - Fuel Bowl Plug
Why do you think this was spam? Stromberg carburettors came in two varieties. The first had adjustment from the top using a special tool in place of the the dashpot damper and with a fixed jet pressed in above the fuel bowl plug. The second type had a fixed needle but with adjustment from below, by ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: JDC JEC or E-type club
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3228
Re: JDC JEC or E-type club
.... or whether my fears are well founded Your fears are well founded and the observations are mostly well made. Club magazines have always had trouble attracting decent copy and will thus be full of filler material to pad out the content. Success for a printed magazine (as opposed to an online spa...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Registration in Italy rejected - EEC-homologation - help wanted
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1396
Re: Registration in Italy rejected - EEC-homologation - help wanted
Front lenses for a s1 never had e11 markings, neither then, nor now. (I was referring to s2 front lenses.) Some of the newer service items (e.g. from David Manners) do not even have "LUCAS" stamped onto them. On the back of a s1, the round reflectors, presumably service items, have e11 and SAE 69 st...