Andy Moltu

Howard Pryor has done this with Jenvey Heritage Weber lookalikes and the K6 I think and was very pleased with it on his 4. I'm collecting bits to do my 4A but likely to use the Chinese Jenvey throttle body copies as about £1500 cheaper. I will likely use the Emerald K6 unit with wasted spark ignition.

It's likely to be an internal issue within the master cylinder (tipping valve IIRC) They are relatively easy but fiddly to rebuild as corrosion is less likely than the seals reaching the end of their days. However new ones are available from many of the Stag suppliers like James Paddock or you can have an exchange one from EJ Ward, the latter option being more expensive.

Probably the reason for the caveat with Forlife was the corrosion inhibitors used. It is recognised that mixing some blue non-OAT inhibitors with some red OAT antifreeze can cause problems including gelling if the cooling system isn’t flushed properly. The OAT ones currently used in modern cars have considerably longer working life durations than your standard blue antifreeze which required replacement after 2-3 years as the inhibitors become less effective/used up.

Yes, that was the scandal that hit Austrian wines years ago.

If we park the competition cars to one side as this is different to the way most cars are used, the consideration is what sort of driving you might do on the road. if we assume a thermostat is used to mitigate the potential impact of overcooling, there is a case for fitting one if you plan to do a lot high speed motorway driving in warm weather. The motorway networks were less when our cars were current and probably less likely to do continental blasts. If the stat opens then the cooler is probably helping. If it rarely opens then your cooler is just bling. Coolers can fail (genera

If you haven’t got an overdrive box you can fit a J type or an A type to your car. However your car would originally had an A type. If you fit a J type you need to be aware the chassis mounts which take the weight of the rear of the box are different for the two. Not a problem as such but you would need an adaptor if you fit a J type to your car. Does it matter whether you have overdrive on 2nd & 3rd & 4th or just on 3rd & 4th is about how you choose to use it. The appeal of a 7 speed transmission is countered by the spacing of the gears. If you have a close ratio box it

The 3 pin plug output on most out alternators is meant to carry an intended maximum of 30amps to the loom. This was why alternators with significantly higher outputs such as the A127 have an additional output post to take some of the current. In theory you take this to the solenoid. As has been mentioned already some have a terminal for directly sensing the battery voltage so the output voltage can be slightly different to that sensed by the wires going to the main loom, especially if the run to the battery is long and carrying significant current. Probably not significant on our cars whe

Looks like a Reg Bowler linkage. He borrowed my Revington linkage and re-engineered it to make it less floppy. I never fitted the fast idle mechanism when I put the linkage on originally so wasn't there to copy Personally I use my right foot to control the idle speed when on choke.

I wondered if it was an April Fool but it’s dated 12 April!

The parts catalogues May seen good but lead to a near uniformity of prices with less scope for shopping around. The jumbles were using the catalogue and price lists. I guess this is too small an issue for referral as creating a near monopoly.

It's flammable, doesn't cool as well as regular glycol/water mix. Having a higher boiling point isn't that relevant as by the time the engine gets that hot it's in big trouble. By those criteria you could fill the rad with brake fluid..... Antifreeze mixed with water and corrosion inhibitors has stood the test of time because it is effective at its job of cooling the engine, taking that heat to the radiator where the heat is lost to the atmosphere whilst at the same time preventing corrosion in the waterways and not freezing when it gets really cold. Too much antifreeze in the m

I know Allan Westbury modified a set of these TR6 ones to fit his 4A. The 4's A frame is a bit more curvy as I recall and likely to even more tricky to adapt and look half decent. Nothing to stop you making a set using flexible board covered in foam and vinyl and forming a lip out of metal to hook behind the H frame sides.

Given compression, cam timing likely to be OK. Being a tooth out probably not enough to make it spit and bang, merely move the power band up or down the rev range. Ignition timing - is that 11degrees btdc on the correct side of the distributor cam lobe? It's easy to put it at 11 after or rotate the dizzy the wrong way so you are on the closing ramp of the cam. Have you got the firing order correct? Butterflies mis-aligned butterflies or manifold air leak. Metering unit being mis-timed probably isn't enough to explain this. If injectors are spraying you probably have adequat

I remember an exchange with BT when my email address was “hacked” They just wouldn’t accept that it must have been at their end in spite of the address it bounced back from one only being on my but webmail account and not one that was in my Outlook address book on my PC.

BT email seems to have woeful security.