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  • C Mee12 February 2026

    Job Done!

    It's not concours - but then, neither is any other bit of the car. At least I think it looks better than it did before.

    I am definitely a two-pack convert and will be using it to prime that left-hand wing that suffered paint when my gazebo collapsed on it in a gale at Harewood in September.

    Thanks for your comments and suggestions.

    Colin

  • Dave O'Neill 212 February 2026

    Just check that the pushrod hasn’t bottomed out by seeing whether you can push it back into the slave.

  • Les Rose12 February 2026

    Willy, very recently (about 300 miles ago) I had to service the slave cylinder and fitted a new pushrod. I checked it against the old one and it was identical, except of course for the wear. I did wonder about whether this increased the effective length. Years ago, before fitting the 1275 clutch, I made an adjustable pushrod, but after the conversion I found it worked best at exactly the same leng...

  • Alan Anstead12 February 2026

    Some roller release bearings require the pressure pad to be removed from the diaphragm in order that they can press directly upon that diaphragm.
    Some are heavy and droop: better employed on a type 9 Sierra gearbox conversion where they are supported by a guide tube over the first motion shaft.

    Failure to remove the pressure pad, if required, with throw all the relevant measurements o...

  • anamnesis12 February 2026

    Yep sounds like Willy's right.

    16000 miles to wear out a clutch raises suspicions about there not being free play.

    When I bought my Capri, the seller said the clutch slipped and was knackered.

    When I got it home, and got under it, I found the adjustable pushrod was simply too long. Backed it off and no more slip. But the damage was done, it was nearly at the rivets and t...

  • William Revit11 February 2026

    Les
    Being modified is it possible that the pushrod in the slave cylinder is too long and has bottomed out (no freeplay) causing the clutch to slip-?

  • Les Rose11 February 2026

    I modified my car to fit a 1275 clutch (and roller release bearing), which I thought might outlast me. But it is slipping after 16,000 miles. What suppliers/brands do you guys recommend? Is it really worth paying £200 for a Borg and Beck one? Is a Girling one at £87 any good?

  • Allan Reeling11 February 2026

    Two things. 1. skew gear, and 2. Oil pump drive, make alignment tricky!!
    If you need to remove it again, turn the crankshaft over to your timing mark with the rotor arm opposite lead number 1. Then note or mark on the flash shield, both where the rotor is, THEN where it is when the skew gear has stopped rotating it when you withdraw the distributor. So assuming ehe crank hasn't been move...

  • anamnesis11 February 2026

    Starmer missed a trick.

    Starmer frequently highlights that his father, Rodney Starmer, was a "toolmaker" who "worked in a factory" to define his working-class roots

    He should have burst into song.

    🎵🎵 Oh, my old man's a toolmaker
    He wears a toolmaker's hat
    He wears cor blimey trousers
    And he lives in a council flat
    He looks a proper narner
    In his...

  • anamnesis11 February 2026

    I'd forgotten about him Dave. As you say, classic 2 Jag's.

    Rayner's him in a skirt. Or is that a baggy green suit? Lol.

    Working class style.

    Talk about putting on the agony.

    And she sure ain't sweet sixteen. 🤣

    https://youtu.be/SE50GiTMJXo?si=xDjf986G_zILz6bm

  • 1949 MGYT LHD Y/T/EXU 2917

    1949 MGYT LHD Y/T/EXU 2917

    Clear Texas Title. The car had been stored in San Antonio, TX since 1966 and rescued in 2017. The car starts and runs beautifully and is road licensed.

    New items:
    Gas Sender, Gas pump, Master cylinder, 5 new tires, Drums, Brake shoes, Brake pistons, Soft brake lines with some hard lines replaced, Hand brake cable, Front shocks, Front inner and oute...

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