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The Classic Marque

I bit the bullet and pulled out the pistons again. One rod small end was a bit loose, another very slightly. The rods are at the gun driller now and I'll pick them up on Thursday.

I won't bother with checking cam bearings as they were new last year, and I have found another source of the noise.

The parts diagram shows a shim on the RH gearbox mount (71 1275) on the top of the rear bracket. I am just about to put mine back in, but there was no shim there when took it out.

Any views on if it is required or not? In its favour is the fact that the plate on the top of my RH mount is no longer bonded to the rubber - might it be due to a lack of a shim?

On the up-side the detac...

It's the other way round.

The white/brown comes off the ignition relay and feeds that fuse, other unfused ignition circuits like fuel pump and overdrive, and via that fuse most of the fused ignition circuits as well as the ballast resistance and via that to the coil. Or at least it did originally.

I do have the blue AccuSpark coil which is fed with the ballast lead.

Sadly, the previous owner had attempted to do some major rewiring and I'm having to trace wires in order to find a 12v direct feed from the ignition switch.

Currently the second fuse up from the bottom is fed from the coil which is of course ballasted.

Thanks for your guidance, I'll persist.

Hi Colin,
The pipe & clip appear to be the same for both Chrome & RB cars with the Oil/Water gauge (Chr) & Oil gauge (RB) being in approx the same place. See picture for where my clip is fixed (there only appears to be one clip inside the car).
Cheers,
Charles

I changed mine, remember a clip but didn't refit and can't see a hole either, sorry.

Bruce - it is called 'composite panel' or board and there are many manufacturers. It is very thin aluminium sheet (around 0.2mm-0.8) each side with a very thin sheet of vinyl pressed in between the ally sheets. Sign writers also use it. Totally waterproof. Makes great panels for cars as it can be easily cut with strong scissors or a panel knife, screwed, shaped, bent glued and so on. There are m...

Thanks Ian - we have both of those so if you can locate the chassis numbers of the other two sometime that would be great.

Can you post the name on the board you used. I am always interested in new/better products.

I did something similar earlier this year using the new ultra thin ally/foam/ally car trimming panels and cut a hole for my heater fan under the dash. I used the same material to replace my crumbling kick panels. It can be glued or screwed and reshaped in situ if needed.