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Dear Rear Caliper Experts, Please could you confirm whether I have the 'lever locator' (that is what it is called in Haynes, although mine looks nothing like the one in their drawing) facing the right way? It is the bracket immediately under the beam. Should the faces which turn at right angles...

Dear Forum, About 2 years ago I refurbed my leaking rear calipers and because my Haynes told me to fit the piston seals with the smallest diameter uppermost I did! Unfortunately, through the good offices of this website, I subsequently discovered that a better description of the correct way up...

Dear Forum, Can I make replacement exhaust manifold gaskets for my 2200 SC? If so, out of what material, please? Regards to you all, Ray

Dear Forum, I have electronic ignition which requires a constant 12-volt supply to the coil. To bypass the ballast wire, I have a wire spliced into the thin white wire at the top of fuse 19/20 and led directly to the +ve coil terminal. The thick white wire remains in place. This has worked fine...

Dear Forum, Can anyone please tell me what should be bolted onto this bracket? And what on earth this is: Thank you

Dear Forum, Is the adjustment for the alternator/water pump belt tension sited behind the water pump pulley or is it set at the alternator itself, please? I hope this question makes sense? Ray

Dear Forum, No sure if I have the part name correctly. HBOL tells me to use a long feeler gauge to set the gap between the chain and the damper pad at between 00.02 and 00.10 inches. Do not possess a long feeler gauge; is this setting important, please? How about I set them just touching? Any...

Dear Forum, I have replaced all four bearings in my gearbox. When the four bolts that secure the main gearbox casing to the bellhousing are slack, all gears work fine. When I tighten those bolts, neutral disappears, third/fourth seizes up and everything goes to rat sh*t :!: My HBOL completely...

Dear Forum. My lower timing chain tensioner is the newer type (as I understand it) without the allen key backing-off system. Can I 'lever' it away from the timing chain (through the aperture in the front of the timing chest) to 'disarm' it, or must I remove my sump to do so by completely...

Dear Forum, Please, is there anything special about the Camshaft rear cover gasket? Can I cut myself a new one from thick gasket paper? If so, does it have a hole cut in its centre where the camshaft sits against it (what's left of the old one has created a camshaft-sized circular ridge around...

Dear Forum, I am reassembling my 2200 engine and it has taken me so long to renovate that I have forgotten how the flexible mounting for the alternator attaches to the side of the block! Has anyone any diagrams, pics etc, please? ATB Ray

Dear Forum, I have stripped down both my gearbox in use and my spare gearbox. In both gearboxes, the rear Layshaft Bearing split open when I pulled the gearbox casing away from the bell housing (in accordance with the instructions in HBOL), leaving the outer casings of both of the rear...

Dear Forum, My HIF6 has an aperture let into the face of the flange which attaches it to the inlet manifold via another flange (which incorporates the throttle linkage). However, the gasket I removed from between these two flanges does not have a corresponding hole and accordingly, has bulged...

Dear Forum, A friend has twin HIF6's and needs to balance them. However, the rearmost carb has its jet adjustment screw blanked off? Why would it be blanked off and how does he adjust this carb if he cannot access the adjuster, please? Stumps me (not that that is particularly difficult)...

Dear Forum, I have two gearboxes, both of which have a metal-to-metal mismatch between gearstick 'olive' and cross-shaft 'ring'. One has phosphor-bronze bushes in the two small 'bulkheads' that the cross-shaft passes through within the remote housing on its way to the selectors and the other...

Dear Forum, What is the best method for polishing the Cam Cover, please :?: Cheers, Ray

Dear Forum, Please find below a pic of my bottom.......chain tensioner :!: Please could anyone explain how I am supposed to insert my allen key to either retract or deploy this tensioner? I had to undo the set bolts and catch it to get it off :!: :!: Better still, could someone please...

Dear Forum, Before I even contemplate this, does the round dial dash fit under the strip speedo screen rail, please? I have a strip-speedo dash in a 1973 series 2 2000 with a 2200 SC engine fitted, together with an already-fitted series 2 TC switch panel; I do like the character of the strip...

Dear Forum, I have a birthday coming up and my Dash Top is badly cracked in the (as I understand it) usual three places! The following item is very expensive, but has anyone tried it and if so, is it any good, please :?: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390774751694 ATB Ray

Dear Forum, HBOL says that "A new seal must be fitted to the hydraulic piston and so placed that the smaller diameter of the seal is nearest to the pointed end of the piston". I realise I am being slow, but obviously the diameter of the seal is the same at both ends...But please, do they mean...

Dear Forum, Please see attached video. http://s861.photobucket.com/user/raylis ... a.mp4.html Is this normal? I have been unable (despite REPEATED attempts) to obtain a satisfactory answer from SimonBBC to the following simple question: 'Should the the spline be fastened securely in the...

Dear Forum, Please could a '4-Pot' Forum Member who has PowerSpark Electronic ignition fitted look to see if their Vacuum Unit and Vernier Scale moves in and out of their Distributor when they rev their engine? Ta, Ray

Dear Forum, I am afraid another dumb question! I understand how the timing is advanced, first by the vacuum unit and secondly by the centrifugal force exerted by the sprung weights; however, should the whole vacuum unit move in and out as you throttle up and down? Would this not negate some of...

Dear Forum. This is probably a stupid question, but I have been unable to find an obvious answer anywhere on the forum......How do you remove the badges without damaging them or the relevant panel, please? Ray

Here I go again! I have just plugged my new halogen outer dip/headlights in. They really are such an improvement over the sealed beams, which had become blackened with age! They look great on dipped, but when I go to main beam, the L/H outer fades to a glow - I mean not even as bright as...