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This is a great video showing you what can be done.... if you can acquire the skills

He makes the intermittent cutting of the crankshaft at the start look like a doddle

Great little car. I had one as a student in the sixties

Russell

Russell,

Agree with your thoughts.

These old cars are an absolute pleasure to work on as everything is easy to get at, and no electronics in sight. It's taken me two days to strip the bodywork from the front end, exposing the engine ready for it's removal.

The only 'problem' I have is that a previous owner/s did a body off restoration and then did their level best to use as big a mixture of threads for the nuts and bolts as possible, so the air is turning blue as I search for suitable spanners.

I know exactly what I'd like to do to them, the previous owner/ that is, all illegal of course

I open the bonnet of my modern and close it straightaway.

Geoff - Time to go shopping as it's a bit cooler.

You will not be allowed to use your collection of spanners on his nuts.

Dennis

The only 'problem' I have is that a previous owner/s did a body off restoration and then did their level best to use as big a mixture of threads for the nuts and bolts as possible, so the air is turning blue as I search for suitable spanners.

I would swear they did that on 80s cars, to deter home repairers. I had a Cortina waterpump held on by three screws, all different.

Nowadays they just use torx etc. and you end up having to shell out for all these different fittings

Neil

Copper plating mild steel with copper sulphate is far more resistant to being erased than the other methods. Engineer's marking blue and felt-tip pen are both quite easy to get wiped off by cutting fluid; I don't know about W H Smith spirit marker.

David

Now green grit really is outdated; it wears away very fast. Diamond impregnated wheels are now so cheap, and orders of magnitude better, I could not imagine why anyone should use the old green grit.

David

so the air is turning blue as I search for suitable spanners

If I have a job where I may have problems I try to use these guys, a stanley ratchet wrench

Each one covers everything in it's mm range 8-14mm, 13-19mm and 17-24mm for example

3 spanners cover 8-24mm in Metric, imperial, planet zog, whatever

Only the bigger 17-24mm one seems to still be easily available now though

Edited By Ady1 on 15/07/2013 01:46:02