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.........and/or use coloured bulbs as well. You can get silver looking indicator bulbs that light up orange.

That also applies to bed springs if you have been eating too much Christmas pudding

Back to the trunnion, I managed to get a jack under the thing (first jack the car up, put it on stands, take off the wheel ...) And after trying a 1 euro coin in various alignments I came to the conclusion that either the idea doesn't work or it only works in sterling. So I must get round to changi...

Has anyone looked at their build video? Did you see the rear subframe fitted and the front bolt sitting in a nice little undrained cavity just waiting for some salty road water to fill it up?

Operate the hazard switch a few times and check the indicators still work. The MOT man will

Never mind get some of these

A V6 should have Re-heinz gaskets

Must be a nanny state. Drive over the border to Belgium or Germany do it there and drive back again

What he said ^^^^!!
I would add that the money saved by not using additive will easily go a long way to pay for hardened seats should they need doing in the future

Best phone Martin Jay on 01984 629 540 and see if he has a rotor for your specific distributor type.

RockerPhill wrote:

toomanysabres wrote:

RockerPhill wrote: The inlet manifold gasket looked fine, though I did in the process discover that my oval port Essex has d port heads! It had the correct gasket

WHAT!!!

Is that a bad thing?

You can't mix oval ports and D ports. If you have D port heads then you need a D port inlet manifold surely.

RockerPhill wrote: The inlet manifold gasket looked fine, though I did in the process discover that my oval port Essex has d port heads! It had the correct gasket

WHAT!!!

Hope the Intermotor bits are not rotor arms. You should get the red ones from Distributor Doctor. Black ones with rivets are a BIG problem. Nearly cost me a bucket load of penalties on a rally. Read Martin Jay's write up here. http://www.distributordoctor.com/red-rotor-arms.html also read here http:...

The voltage regulator has to be earthed otherwise the bi-metal oscillating switch won't work. It will probably pass through 12volts and give a high reading. Although the fuel gauge would respond similarly.

And the courtesy light switch used on early Sabre