The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Looking great!

Nice work! The car is coming on really well.

Wsm page

My 1850 is an auto... so no flywheel so I have no experience.
Checked my 1850 workshop manual, no mention of alignment in the removal/refit instructions.
Sorry!

On the Spitfire when I got it I got sick of things like the headlights randomly stopping working. All down to the crappy fuse box. So I spent a winter re-wiring through a fuse/relay box I fitted next to the tunnel in the passenger footwell.
Lots and lots of work. I cut the wrapping off the loom in ...

Does anyone know the part no. for the 1850 3 rail non OD gearbox extension bearing? I know it's a generic LJ7/8 (one on order) but can't find the Dolly part no. as I only have access to '76 onward catalogue.


Here's the page from my 1973 parts book:

https://i.postimg.cc/Yh910Vhn/20250625 ...

Looking great @Bish !

Carledo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 2:06 am Bought a VC for a Spitfire last week, was £125 +VAT and carriage which was enough to give me a big lump in the throat.

For reliability I switched the fan on my Spitfire to the earlier fixed and deleted the vc years ago. Trouble free cooling!

My 2pm worth... in an ideal world OE spec rubber would be the way to go, but in my experience across multiple models/marques the modern rubber is junk, plan on replacing every 12 to 24 months, less if they get contaminated with oil.
The poly world is full of sharks and chancers. To be honest the ...

It does sound (on the video) to me like something catching intermittently.

There is a bit on his website called Clients & Costs.
https://www.aireytuning.com/#ourclients

It quotes "For 2 Twin Chock Carbs, 4 cyl £480 + Parts No Vat" and he treats SUs the same.


Wow. That's a lot more than Peter Burgess charged me for a day on his RR tuning the twin SUs on my Spitfire!

It looked like for non-car reasons I couldn't enter this time, but I managed to find a way - so we are in! Not in a Dolomite this time, just me and Si in the Spitfire as per 2023.

I find the return springs and linkages on twin SUs a pain when re-assembling - looking nice though!
As you say, polishing is pointless. Whoever "restored" my Spitfire and showed it at concourse events had PAINTED things like the dashpots and alternator metalwork in silver. Yuck.

SuperPro bushes... I thoroughly approve!

Sprintparts wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:08 pm

This my set up. A Weber manifold with a set of Aliexpress DCOE ITB's.

That's really nice and neat!