MG
The Classic Marque

They are considerably better than mine, which have quite a few tears.

I did buy a new seat cover kit about ten years ago, but I was loath to fit them, as I thought they would look too ‘new’ compared with the rest of the car.

A few months ago, I acquired a pair of seats in much better condition. They will need a good clean, as they have been in storage for forty years, apparentl...

'The Great Escape' in Derbyshire, too.

Once upon a time, the arctic was entirely ice free.

The Arctic wasn't always iced over; it was periodically nearly ice-free in summers 10,000 to 5,000 years ago after the last ice age, and even had open water as recently as 6,000-7,000 years ago, but has had year-round ice for the last 5,500 years until recent climate change started dramatically reducing it, with predictions for summer ic...

Here in this part of North zumerset the English signal is so poor we end up with the Welsh signal and it’s not on !
Can get it on my Freesky box though.

'The Great Escape' here in then west country.

Is the camshaft sprocket new?

1645?

Naseby.

Don't wanna be watching a repeat of that.
😄😄

Dave O'
BBC2 1645... Boxing Day

For those who won't be out escaping in their Spridgets...

Dave C

The cam plate holds the cam in the block. The end float is measured between the back of the cam wheel and the cam plate. I checked mine with a dial gauge without the chain fitted and the cam nut torqued to 88nm .
I have now fitted the duplex chain, so I will check it again as suggested by Colin.
Bernie.

IIRC isn't there a shoulder on the cam sprocket whose depth controls the end float, it fits into the cam thrust plate so the thrust plate is sandwiched between the cam and cam sprocket when done up.