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The fluid pressure port will only tell you the line pressure, it won't help diagnosing individual faults. Engaging gears with the wheels... -
Julian replied to the thread Getting there.Gearbox problems? firstly engine runs perfectly after rebuild, auto box seemed ok when on stands, wheels spin in D & R. When on the deck...
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My experience of vapourisation was that the engine did not cut out so much as run badly; coughing and spluttering, and could be kept...
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Julian replied to the thread fuel vaporisation.Sorry, bad habit of mine. on a car its called a condenser (in side distributor as 99.9% of people already know) but it is basically a...
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Julian replied to the thread fuel vaporisation.Nope, I still put my money on coil or capacitor, classic symptoms, gets warm and starts braking down, leave it a bit and then all ok...
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Julian replied to the thread fuel vaporisation.Coil! when a coil start failing one of the faults is as it warms up, it has a dry joint on the primary side that goes open open circuit...
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Julian replied to the thread Getting there.Got engine in last week! surprisingly easy!!! found a carb fault on commissioning that I didn't pick up on carb strip down, now waiting...
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Julian replied to the thread Engine wont rev above 3000rpm.Just putting it out there, i would also be looking at major vacuum leak. plug up the brake servo pipe port to rule out servo, if your...
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Julian replied to the thread Brake Servo rubber hose - replacement.I did this job only this week, I ended up using Stanley knife to carefully cut most of the way through the rubber over the white plastic...
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I have a Webasto sun shade + all the other less important Webasto bits bar any of the folding material from a 1976 P6. The car was in...
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Julian replied to the thread Steel Wheel Rims.On my calcs it basically works out that the outer face of the wheel is in roughly the same place on both wheel hubs and with the...
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I think you've already sussed it but the V8s had 5.5-inch rims (4-cyls had 5-inch) to fit the wider 185 tyres. However, Rover found...
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Julian replied to the thread Steel Wheel Rims.You are correct, I have found the stamping, the 150mm wide rims are indeed stamped 5-JFHX-14 with a 40mm offset and the 165mm rims are...
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Back to the throttle shaft grommet. Here is the new one (MGBD) on left, old on right. The old one has a much shallower groove than the...
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Julian replied to the thread Steel Wheel Rims.The beads also have 15mm difference. These wheel came of P6 rovers, the 165mm rim is from a P6B Auto that was laid up in 1982 So offset...
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