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  1. At work a couple years ago I was look in through a sept 1990 edtion car magazine.

    It must have been the top price bubble !

    There was my tr6 72 cp car on the forecourt for 12950 pounds unrestored at tr bitz

    When I purchased it in 03 I paid 8000 for it restored and the guy who sold it me is my friend and he was not make in a loss

    so someone lost a pretty penny !

    Needless to say advert now in history file .

  2. Hi guys

    Had the moter part of my lucas pump stick ( fail to rotate ).

    Have got the pump/moter apart now and will get new brushes etc.

    When I come to put it back together is it worth a little bit of grease on where the shaft seal goes

    and where the end float bush ( in casing ) is ?.

    many thanks

    Mark

  3. Thankyou derek on cp77058 .

    The hood bag ive got as (dec 72) stamped on it and now i can guess why !

    Your surmising was spot on i think . Car had re-trim and wheels changed after photos.

    THanks again

    Mark

  4. Hi folks

    Has anyone got a paper copy of this brochure? The reason I ask is that Derek (in the latest TR register magazine) has got my car (CP77058-0) down as the one used in this brochure but when I look at examples on the 'net the seats and trim are a different colour (they show them as black whereas mine are light tan). Is it possible they changed them after the photo shoot or is there another car (mine) pictured that I haven't seen?

     

    Many thanks

     

    J'mo

  5. hi

    Just like to say each to there own .I used this service and found out alot from the man i wrote to

    who purchased it new in 73 and sold it 50000 miles later in 85 . Talking to him and he was only 22

    when he bought it i realise what a babe magnet our cars were in the 70s.

    Are they still ?

  6. .hi

    I was wondering what the oringinal OE spec material was for 72 cp hood bags .

    The one that came with my car is back stamped with a red triangle and the date

    18 DEC 72 on it and does look alot like leather ?

    cheers

  7. Nick, how/where do you fit the restrictor? Cheers. Steve.

     

    hi Steve

    I fitted a tapered pin (home made on a off-hand grinder)in the hole of the banjo bolt after reading comments on this forum. Restricts the hole to approx 1mm from about 3 on the standard oil feed kit.

    hope this helps

    jmo

  8. hi

    I did this job last week at home and i have very little skill !

    As long as your tank is half full or less you can disconnet the feed pipe to the pump and tape it as high on tank as you can .Then tape outlet pipe high on boot hinge .Get a new seal and o ring from rimmers or where ever about 15 quid with post age . Disconnect the wires and mark which feed goes to which . Get the pump off the car and undo the 6 bolt hold in the pump to the moter and put it to 1 side . Then undo the 2 screws on the moter body and pull it off gently the moter brushes wiil spring forward .you should be able to care fully tap the seal out . only tricky but is hold in the brushes back on reassemble 2 bits of bent wire and 3 pairs of hands ! .I had no probs with air in system and saved a couple of hundred the fun for me in own in these cars is the falabilty of them and the way they drive .

     

     

    Just the usual "survival" tips when dealing with fuel.Disconnect the battery, do the work out in the fresh air away from sources of ignition, fire extinguisher to hand, a mate to watch your back / lend a hand,etc

     

    Jmo

  9. Thanks. Am looking into the Bosch kit, but am probably going to go for the speed of turnaround option at the moment and move to Bosch over the winter.

     

    Anyone able to advise on how much fuel I can expect to appear when removing the pump if I have it clamped pump-side of the filter? Presumably I will need to clamp along the outlet pipe also else I'll get fuel flowing back in from that side also?

     

    What happens about air being in the system after a new pump is put in place or does that just work it's way out?

     

    hi

    I did this job last week at home and i have very little skill !

    As long as your tank is half full or less you can disconnet the feed pipe to the pump and tape it as high on tank as you can .Then tape outlet pipe high on boot hinge .Get a new seal and o ring from rimmers or where ever about 15 quid with post age . Disconnect the wires and mark which feed goes to which . Get the pump off the car and undo the 6 bolt hold in the pump to the moter and put it to 1 side . Then undo the 2 screws on the moter body and pull it off gently the moter brushes wiil spring forward .you should be able to care fully tap the seal out . only tricky but is hold in the brushes back on reassemble 2 bits of bent wire and 3 pairs of hands ! .I had no probs with air in system and saved a couple of hundred the fun for me in own in these cars is the falabilty of them and the way they drive .

  10. hi guys

    On my heritage cert on point 12 other information it states "This vehicle is recoreded as being a'photography car." I was just wondering, are there any more out there? And has anybody done any research about it?

    thanks

  11. hi guys,

    I have a 1972 pi car with 63000 miles on the clock.

    Trying to work out if any thing as ever been done to the bottem end with out dropping the sump .

    I have had the car 7 years and the oil pressure as always been very good.

    How much movement would you expect to see on a D.T.I for a car with this mileage ,set agianst the crankshaft

    pully when you press the clutch in . I only had just over a thou i was expecting 3 or 4 minumum end float movement.

    many thanks for any ideas

    jmo

  12. hi delboy

    ] had this problem for a while once ,turned out it was the braided hose to the caliper had

    gone internally .let pressure on and not let it off passed at least 2 mots passed with it !

    Also a lot off smoke (burn in grease )into the passenger footwell once on to the future wife

    she was not impressed !

  13. hi Dex

    Unzip the back 1 and let it down then lower the hood keep in the side ones out side the car so they fold

    in over the top . Just avoid crease in them and they should stay great . Mine are 38 years old and still good .

    If i have explianed it wrong sorry some body put me right please.

  14. jmo,

     

    If it's the same as the one supplied by TRF it's just about impossible. No amount of heat will make it flexible enough short of melting it altogether. After several attempts, I managed by removing much of the beveled diameter, then notching in (3) places to allow it to contract sufficiently to be pushed through. I left enough of the flange to retain it in position, barely. This side went into the footwell, out of sight.

     

    The part as supplied is simply wrong. I can't imagine anyone else struggling as I did to make it work in spite of itself <_<

     

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