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The Classic Marque

Guy, agreed. I plug welded my seams as a 3 way "sandwich" with the beading, which I found difficult. I then used filler underneath to seal it and painted with Rustoleum combi color. On top I filled a bit between wing/ bonnet and beading so there was no gap for ingress of moisture (it was also a bit uneven from bonnet edge and wing edge repairs). Similar at the rear.

Great fix Bob. 🙂

some years ago the oil filter to block adapter, gasket failed and sent a lovely stream of hot oil in the direction of that very wing/centre section joint. Never rusted. Periodically I have to remove the oil that oozes out!!

That is kinda my question !

But seriously, you can look at the casting and retaining fixing and work out the ones with the spacer.

The others I think I have the one without the o-ring as there is a different wear line in the body ( I hope ).

The one with the smaller washer was still assembled (the AHS lever arm I am replacing)

The rest (3 off angled one piece fi...

Those wing flanges are also difficult to get the weld far enough up to fuse close up to the bead. The tendancy is to weld along the edges of the wide flange which has the effect of creating a sort of hinge and flexing along the edges of the bead, which cracks the paint. The rear ones are even harder!

Keep in mind that these cars were never expected to last 28 years, let alone not need a bit of rust treatment a couple/few times in such a period.

I'd call it a win.

They are not forever, fix and forget cars.

Yep, grind it back, treat, paint, then likely repeat as required, if you still have it over 10 years later.

Me too Bonda Primer.

Wow. Are they interchangeable or unique to a body type?

All good stuff Nat.

Nothing wrong with that fuel delivery I can see.

The 'wires pulled off' videos do seem to show the sudden drop to zero that I would expect, as you say red wire dropping faster.

However 'voltage at black wire at idle ...' has higher voltages that I'd expect. A idle I thought the 13.nn might be indicating it was a variable dwell module, but to go up to...

Yep agree anam, Russia and China will always be a threat but not necessarily in a conventional sense. In that regard I think China is the bigger threat but they have gone under the radar to a lot of people even though they have been at it for a while.

As for the finishing line in Iran who knows, but we should realise they will rebuild their capability if the job isnt finished. You only h...

Do your bonnet wings have the extra diagonal bracing bars at the rear? I think that without them extra movement would make the seam paint more liable to cracking.