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Calver designed the original gear-set so that the dots should align for us as per original a-series cam wheels. The dots provide a base-line for set-up.
Does this fault with positioning of the dots carry over to non adjustable cam wheels both simplex and duplex.


“As Jason has said it is the MSC kit.
And absolutelty, it should be simple to apply initially. Just th...

FWIW the Leyland GT V8 supplement I have shows the 41394 knee more like half-way along the curve at around 25 degrees and 2500 rpm.

'Decent' acceleration is in the a*se of the beholder (is there ever 'enough' acceleration?), mine was always smooth once I matched the needles to the K&N air filters and tubular manifolds.

I thought you could only rely on the dots for a standard factory cam, anything that has been reprofiled will have likely been done to best fit the new profile into the existing cam and so the dots can't be relied on except to get a base orientation. I've always used the DTI and crank degree wheel method, these days you can print a degree wheel and there are a number of online sources where you can...

Where is the error, in the camshaft or the timing gears?

I don’t know how far out the timing would be using standard gears and an original camshaft, compared with standard gears and a new replacement cam.

If using vernier adjustable gears, you would always time the cam with a DTI and protractor, or there’d be no point in using them, surely.

I thought that I would pass this on. It is a Fb ‘complaint’ from mini engine guru Keith Calver. Keith builds A-Series engine &c and used to write technical articles for a Mini magazine.

The picture highlights how far out the dots are when fitting cam gear & cams. It seems that it is no longer possible to rely on aligning the dots, as many have done over the years, but ‘beg, borrow o...

I'm currently amusing myself with Lucas 35DM8 distributors, on a 3.5 Vitesse engine, with SU carbs and Lucas CEI ignition. Particularly the mechanical advance element and thus the advance springs.
I built a machine for comparing spring strengths, and have done the maths to work out where on an advance curve, from 10* btdc, static, to 32* all in, various free lengths, of secondary spring engage...

Connections.

TB times 2, Alf Garnett, Gaza.

Tony Booth played opposite to Alf Garnett as Mike Rawlins, the Socialist scouse git. In life he was also a rabid socialist.

One of his daughters married 'socialist' Tony BLiar. Tony Booth wasn't happy with Tony BLiar's Iraq venture, amongst a lot of other stuff.

Another of his daughters, a former actress, now a journal...

Guy. Putin scores points and has a propaganda win?

What use is that? Makes him feel good? Does it enhance Russian power? It might impress a bunch of Russians at home, but it does nothing to diminish US raw power, *anywhere*.

6 days ago, Russia filed a diplomatic request, asking the US to stop pursuing the oil tanker Bela 1, originally bound for Venezuela.

Trump ignored t...

likely not B & D but E & D

E = Einlass = Inlet
D = Druck = Pressure

Bucht is an inlet in the context of a bay or a river

Dave, the Eurofighters and tanker were just training. A lot of pilots need to keep flying currency after the xmas break. Its the same with the US pilots out of Lakenheath. Its been busy all week around the Wash ranges.

Guy, although a lot of their choppers can do air to air refuelling some cant and I think you will find that was the purpose of the UK fleet aux ship. I think it is a tanker...