DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Very excited , engine on test stand. I had sourced a knackered be gearbox and cut it down to attach starter motor to https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180331/cec0cbbb42d9746be2c6749683db765d.jpg All ready to fire up https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180331/4c326402b174281b31012b876450ba85.jpg Plug...

Problem solved with x2 30 degree fittings
Most of the tin on too

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Back from hols and hood progress at weekend. Few hiccups along the way Have deleted the oil filter and by passed oil back into the case. Have become a it paranoid about oil pressure and have got a VDO gauge which I will mount somewhere in the cabin Have a new oil pressure sender from machine 7 which...

Hi David
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I hoped she had yellow or lime green,but had to make do with pink. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180227/ca3b36cdc0a54c8f681b6e37627f5fb9.jpg Getting my head around piston rings. Have read each piston needs its own bespoke rings, so filing in order. Looked for a ring filer but don't seem to be a...

End play4.5/1000 https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180225/7d998b876f65367e44977feac8d40b00.jpg I have added a little nick into top of the smaller wedge of the distributor drive gear and filled with daughters nail varnish I always found this difficult to see when looking down the hole to find TDC on...

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180224/7d0882360b607b2833f14da2382c1f1d.jpg Case has had a deep clean inside and out All passages flushed with hot water and blown through with compressed air https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180224/2c6aac6d4738c7a39aac87b294c4ecc6.jpg Stuff back from the plater...

Hi Neil
do you think your tool will torque up a gland nut, thinking about how to go about that without spending a fortune on a "proper tool"

So last year after getting the car up and running a valve spring went , I tried to replace it in situ but too difficult and dropped the engine found that another spring was about to go and the other two on that side were rusty as well so as it was smoking and I had no history with the car decided to...

Thanks guys , ordered from PRS with a new gland nut

anyone have a spare?
Thanks

Stole an hour in the garage last night with a beer while the wife was with friends getting festive and removed the baked seals out of the rear quarter lights - who supplies the best replacements? Suspension is off to the blasters straight after new year so need to get that stripped asap. I am looki...

they come out together as a unit with the sliders they are on
slide seat all way forward remove rear hex nuts , slide all the way back remove front hex nuts , 8 per seat in total.
sometimes can be tricky as seat may not slide forwards or back enough to reveal the nuts
Andrew

Hi All well got her quite nicely. had ordered synchrometer to really balance things out, but then something happened suddenly to cause major loss of power and backfiring, nursed her home , took air cleaner off right hand cylinders to find this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HWoHAoSpPA so checked ...

thanks guys a momentous day! did some more fiddling , whilst awaiting for the parts to arrive. anyway got it going and starting 1st time, still phutt phutting, my daughter calls it sputnik which I quite like been out to Wimborne today , a bit gutless unless revved but its first proper drive- love it...