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The Classic Marque

Personally i think you're better off with everything sealed off except the hose to the carbs, any leak anywhere just increases the flow up the hose.

Now you mention it Jim,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6n07ypqz8kzo

Bought a new vented rocker cap, to fit, and search boxes for suitable plugs for the holes!

Then test.

I bit the bullet and pulled the engine out of mine this morning couple of reasons, mainly to balance the flywheel and clutch, there's a slight vibration up in the revs and it's been peeing me off. Also a bit of an oil drip from the bellhousing which tasted/smelt like gearoil, so a seal for the gearbox input shaft, then when I got the flywheel off the crank seal was a bit weepy so will replace tha...

Ha! Some would call me stubborn and/or OCD, Willy o' the South. Thanks for the encouragement - I am a plugger, but I love the learning journey and the job satisfaction.
More news as it comes to hand.
John.

That wrecked my next oncoming theory then John.
just looking at the end of your piston it has a step where the vent holes are--I'd been thinking they might have made the piston a tiddle longer and stepped it so that it didn't need the shim washer and then by adding a washer the overall length might have been long enough to cause the primary cup to overlap the fill hole BUT not so, so I'll clim...

I hope the Community will indulge an Old Man.
Recent headlines have jogged a memory of when l still worked: as a lecturer in chemistry. Organic chemistry is rooted in the element carbon and the myriad of connected molecules which it can build. Silicon, in the same group of the Periodic Table may then be expected to behave in a similar fashion but it shows remarkable differences. In order to el...

Steady on, Paul - my brass piston length is the same as standard, one and 15/16 inches; and the diameter is about a thou under the 1 inch bore size. Hence the piston did work, but now with new primary and secondary cups/seals it's been a real struggle.
The alteration to the "rib" on the brass piston should improve the way the secondary seal sits, and thus the function of that piston; but the g...

War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?

" --- "In a sense it's now a bit like those Edwardian summers before 1914, when there was a lot of talk of war but the notion of actually going to war seemed so far-fetched as to be beyond belief and I think that's where we are at the moment," says retired British General Sir Richard Shirreff, a former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe...

Driving style? If a strap is doing anything then that wheel is about to leave the tarmac.