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The Classic Marque

Mike referring to my earlier post of solvent.
Fill the cylinders with Marvel Mystery oil through the spark plug holes. Wait 48-72 hours
Len

..for anyone interested in this detail of engine design, 7 degrees of crankshaft rotation BTDC equates, it seems, to 1/64" of piston travel before TDC. Dave

The best thing you can say about those ram pipe gaskets is they've got a hole in them.
The diameter isn't even close is it?

Looking good in your engine bay Nick. A job well done.

You're right on two counts, Willy. It all comes down to the people who care, i.e. ourselves, and the test drive was pretty nippy.

Heh - any thread drift from you is likely to be (a) useful info, and (b) entertaining. I didn't know it was feasible to replace (or supplement?) that mongrel welch plug with a bolt-on plate, so there you go.
The master cylinder saga: Tony S is sending me the original style piston; it should only take a few days as he's also in Qld - and then it'll be full beans on adapting the non-original pis...

You're right, Dave...google knows everything!...
I'm still old-school and like asking real people...

Off the top of my head, I believe it is 5.75”

I think I have some A+ rods in the garage, although you can probably google the answer.

I believe that all A-series rods are the same length, with the exception of the 970 Cooper S engine.

I have become involved in a discussion about timing and the relationship between timing measured in crankshaft position BTDC and distance before TDC measured in mm from end of upward piston trave. The calculation requires the conrod length, so, any sages out there who could share centre to centre dimension for a standard 1275 conrod?...
Thanks

You just can't trust anything nowadays---check check check-

John--Thanks for the thought but not running a welch plug in the cam hole, he's all sealed off with a bolt on steel plate and gasket. Sorry for the thread drift , now back to master cylinders----how's progress