Motorsport Mickey

Hi Chris, been thinking of doing this. Did TRGB use all your original pads (do they accept an odd split ?) or diid you buy and cover new pads ? Mick Richards

Hi Richard, It's tempting to just burn logs in an open fireplace but the heat loss from the room up the chimney is depressing. Whilst mulling the purchase of a heat stove (not bought yet) I came across these videos... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=recoheat+heat+recovery+unit The Recoheat is a flue heat recovery unit which can be inserted into a flue or constrained (tube fed) chimney. Take a look at the video, completed in a semi professional manner it appears to show significant advantages withy the only ongoing financial outlay (another Reco heat video in th

He does say in his question John..."Hi, I wonder why my TR6 clutch snatch when engaging?" I missed it myself initially. Mick Richards

“is there a scientific reason for this. “ Phil Yes, depending upon the breathing of various engines the inside of the block when running is like a mighty washing machine. Even with trucks, you don’t fill the oil to the top mark, and the correct level is the one where the pressure inside doesn’t get excessive and push the oil out past the seals. With modern trucks, particularly running electric oil level gauges, you constantly have to remind drivers that the early morning oil check MUST be done before starting the engine. They often like to move the truck to the fuel bowser or

DOH !...of course it's UNF !, but the rad is BSP which is what I mixed it up with, apologies. Mick Richards

But it can do it whilst you have breakfast telling you if the car will need a boost to get started ? Mick Richards

Gentle tap on the pipe at 90 deg to the hole either way gets it wriggling and loosens it. Mick Richards

I hate having a potential large leak or breakdown saved up for away from home. So on the basis a "buggers job" is better done in your drive, drop the fluid and warm the tap up with a blow torch (don't melt) and quickly try to TIGHTEN the tap body up or get some movement by using two large spanners at 180 deg to each other pulling and pushing together to keep the force equal on the large nut sized body of the tap. If it moves even a few mm it will probably break the seal (if it's the BSP tap body it should be, there's only 1 thread and a half on the body that seals it, so should come out)

Different header bar plate I'm afraid Peter. The TR4 (ONLY) has the Surrey top (the soft foldable centre section) with an insewn 3 piece thin steel tab in the material along the front edge. This pushes under the leading edge of the header bar plate, if there's space. The TR4a has the soft top over centre buckles with the location piece to fix to on the rear of the top windscreen frame, and the TR250-TR6 has the header plate securing ...using "plunge" cam handles that go into the header bar (same as on the Stag). The TR4a and the TR5/6 versions are a lot more "secure," some of th

Would connecting in series with a good battery allow it to be charged then ? Mick Richards

"Re-Torque the Head is the next job" Don't forget to UNDO the nuts first by about 1 flat, (I do it in the torquing sequence) don't be surprised when it torques back up past where it was before. Mick Richards

Yeah, that’s why motorcyclists don’t get hurt as much in accidents ! ! ! My god, some people who don’t believe in seatbelts will tell some tales to try and propagate their views. Remember, seat belt law came in 1971, and many of those current cars were lacking in collapsing cell technology, Anglia, Ford Pops etc but still there was a dramatic fall in deaths and injury with seat belt fitment. Fit seat belts, oooh and if you can a rear roll over bar, oooh and if you can a rear cockpit alloy firewall, protect yourself and your family. Mick Richards

The description for a car and tyre that does that Chris is "tracking", sometimes it can be bad enough to pick up on road white markings also. Handling is a description used to describe the changing of the car attitude or behaviour to driver input. The 195s because they are a squarer profile with the cambered inner surface contacting more, will tend to pick up road input from lines or changes in road surface HGV "ruts" in the road surface for example. Mick Richards

I think maybe owners need to be careful. Westway market at least 2 oils at 20-50 (maybe more) and there's only 1 that I can find that says it has a high Zinc content (1500 Zinc by content ZDDP), Bobs using it. Indeed there is a statement on some 20-50 containers offered that it CAN be used on engines with a catalyst. As Peter states in an earlier post, a template used is if you can use it on a catalyst engine it's likely NOT got a high Zinc ZDDP content, which means I won't use it on my engines. Mick Richards

Shows how much I know (or don't), I thought the angled skin support was only on the TR5. Mick Richards

Happy Birthday John. Mick Richards

Aaahhh but I only want 1. Mick Richards

Hi John, You have a Personal Message. Mick Richards

Hi Chris, That's strange, the standard section 165 80 15 tyres on 5.5 wheels are the optimum mix on the TR for handling, as in change of direction and cornering inputs. The 195 tyres do give more grip for point and squirt (marginally more tyre on the road, there's about 15% of the tyre on the outside barely touches the tarmac because of the negative camber) maybe that's what you mean ? Mick Richards

Michael, There's a saying, "if your car feels like it's on tracks...you ain't driving it fast enough". NO car drives around a track and doesn't exhibit ...behaviours,... understeer, oversteer, roll understeer, roll oversteer, drifting, weaving under braking, snap oversteer from understeer when power input is varied (famous on a Porsche). That's why when you set a cars handling up first you make it safe, ...then you make it nasty, having a car that WON'T change direction in a snap or it's attitude (car placement or axis on the track) makes for a car that's slower to drive, and less s

Hi John, Nice to see you on the forum again, hope Lynn and yourself are ok. Mick Richards

+1 for the stub stacks, not as impressive looking as 3" ram pipes but about 50% more effective. Mick Richards

Peter Burgess at Automotive Performance Engineering in Alfreton 01773 520021 has had some Mikuni's go through his rolling road (probably on MGBs) and he rates them. Mick Richards

Stuart from the Watermill Carriage Company has Dellorto 40s on his car, but I can't remember whether 86 or 89mm pistons, so he may be able to give a starting point. Mick Richards

Never heard of a Nikuni ? is that a typo of Mikuni ? Mick Richards