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Dental floss !!!

This is a really important issue for the club to engage in. Who is doing so on the MT? Regards Tony

Have you got a fan with a viscous coupling ? Stags and TR7’s do and when they fail the vibration is horrendous.

Still early days for me but my Bosch pump with 500 miles on it started making similar noises and the pressure at the MU dropped to 40psi = start/stop engine. No restriction from tank to filter found changed PRV to a modern type and so far the issue has gone away and the pump is slightly quieter. Maybe your PRV is also a bit sticky or the internal filter is blocking up, mine had some debris in it. Fingers crossed Definitely a learning curve. Just out of interest but once the systems niggles have been sorted just how reliable and consistent is the Lucas set up? Andy

I had the same screeching noise, so loud you could hardly hear the engine. Tried a longer hose from the pump to the prv which helped a bit. Eventually fixed it by replacing the reconditioned prv with a brand new item. All quiet now. Laurence.

I was looking for one a while ago and concluded that no one had any interest in addressing the issue - eBay was my friend at the time, but that route won’t work forever. …….Andy

Robe seal, or dental floss, if you got nothing

I bought 1/8 inch solid lead fishing wire on Amazon. I wrapped it around the relief valve one time rip with a slight overlap, then tightened the valve down with the filter head in a vice. Backed the valve out and the wire had made a perfect flat washer. I was going to use solder but all I could find was hollow/rosin core. I would have fallen back to that if the fishing wire hadn’t worked. Jim

I've just popped into the garage to check out my rocker box seal since I've done a few miles today:- I didn't want to invoke snooker commentator's curse! I can tell you that it still looks to be oil tight. The Triumph manual gives the rocker cover torque as 2 lbs ft. Over tightening just squashes the cork seal out of place. While there I thought I out to see how many ls there are in Wellseal (3) and now I have it on my fingers any hopefully not on this key board. Is that the curse? John

And a lovely old film re car restoration from circa 1963 TR4 https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=bp+home+made+car#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:66793087,vid:bqMb4W3UBoo,st:0

11th May 1964 and only just remembered. Still going strong and a lot more powerful than it left the factory. Amazing to think that 60 years prior it would have been a Veteran car!

I will take a sensible offer for this.......

I suspect that just about every TR currently on the road could be liable to be issued with a Q-plate. Rather than all the talk of changing the club name, attracting younger members etc.etc. perhaps the Register should be focused on informing the current membership of where the stand with regard to the law. My concern is that the current, and future governments, have realised that there is money to be made out of Historic vehicle owners and I think that we may well be in for a nasty shock it the not too distant future. As has been noted, the DVLA 'Call for Evidence' document is hardly

I just loop a small length of cotton thread around the cork gasket at the manifold side and the coil side where the cork curves away from the rocker cover edge. Install the cover and tighten down the two nuts pulling the thread to keep the gasket against the cover edge. When the tightness of the nuts grips the gasket simply pull out the thread. Alternatively just cut it off. With this method I don't need messy glue or grease to hold it in place or even sealant, which I dislike applying and subsequently cleaning off. I did this first after an engine rebuild without using Wellseal gasket se

With a standard cover. Coat the head surface with a neat even layer of Wellseal. Do the same to the valve cover face. I used a 1/4 inch flat paint brush. Apply a covering of wellseal to one side of the gasket. Allow the three faces to tack off. Place the gasket Wellseal face down on to the head. Cover the upper face of the gasket with Wellseal, allow to tack off. Place valve cover on the gasket. Tighten nuts to correct torque…? 16-18 lbft. Go have a beer and resist the temptation to run the engine for 12 hrs.

+1 Works even better using a cast alloy cover. On race cars the rocker cover is off a couple of times a week, and after the same process on an alloy cover the gasket was carried on the rocker cover and sealed perfectly lasting for 3 years or more. Mick Richards

Red in tooth and claw. Mick Richards

I now have an alloy cover but when I was using the pressed steel item I used RTV to stick the gasket to the cover but left it overnight on a greased marble kitchen top with some weights to hold everything flat before fitting it to the head. It used to seal pretty well. Rgds Ian

We had boxful of blue tits once, nine chick's. But one by one they all died! The parents took each body out and disposed of it, to no avail. My wife was most distressed, as I had arranged a nest camp and we could watch every dreadful moment. John

Thanks Rob

Dipstick :-)

Personal I think the FBHVC should issue guidance on how to answer this. It’s a strange document with most answers in Freeform. How on earth is this going to be accurately summarised? Very much dependant upon the individual reading and making a judgement. In my opinion it’s has the potential to be used in any way the government of the time sees fit. Iain Wayne, I hope you are reading this and can orchestrate some sensible communication to ensure we the enthusiasts are not lead down paths that are inappropriate and potentially very damaging to the Classic Car movement.

For many year there was a chap (Peter Weston 'The Lock Man') at all the big car shows selling car door locks at very good prices. Sadly back in 2017 he passed away and joined his name sake (Peter) in heaven. Question - does anybody know if his stock was passed on to anybody to take over this needed service. Roger

An old fashioned Locksmith shop may be able to help, we've got one in Surbiton, not far from you Roger ...... JCM Locksmiths 57 Surbiton Road KT1 2HG Cheers Rob

Does anybody know if there is such a thing as a private or Government register of cars exported/imported from/to Uk? I'm trying to trace the early history of my TR3A between build in 1959 and first registration round about then, up to it being re-registered in 1984. I have absolutely no info at all for that 25year period, and I wondered if maybe it had been taken out of the country. An export record might show that. Thanks Paul