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Should the top half of the doors & 'D' posts be cream or green?

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#106 Post by Mad Mart »

Ah! ha. May be my scheme has worked after all.?
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#107 Post by Mad Mart »

Nearly ready to start it up. Still got to sort out some of the electrics & fill with fluids.


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#108 Post by bodgerben »

Looks great Mart.

I do agree with Jeroen's tiny detail. Get it sorted.
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#109 Post by Mad Mart »

bodgerben wrote:Looks great Mart.

I do agree with Jeroen's tiny detail. Get it sorted.
Thanks Ben.

I will get it sorted as soon as it's back on the road & MoT'd. :D
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#110 Post by bodgerben »

Hmmm, why not sort it now?

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#111 Post by Mad Mart »

OK, we're obviously talking at cross porpoises. My little detail is the decal on the left rear wing.
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#112 Post by Carledo »

Think Jeroens little detail is the sgnature strip at the bottom of your posts which now incorrectly describes your car!

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#113 Post by bodgerben »

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:D 1974 Mean Cream Green Track Day Sprint (170 BHP) :D

I thought that was a very good description by Jeroen.
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#114 Post by Mad Mart »

I completely missed that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :oops: :oops: :oops:

But I'm still going to get the decal changed to match the one on the other side. :D
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#115 Post by soe8m »

What decal? :D

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#116 Post by Mad Mart »

The engine lives again. :D ...for now anyway.

Yesterday I got everything ready to start it up but when I tried to get the oil pumped round, nothing was happening. So this morning I removed the oil pump & stripped it. Straight away I could see the outer rotor was badly scored on top & on checking the tolerance, it was well over. I have a couple of old pumps in the cupboard and on stripping the first it looked very good indeed. A quick check of the tolerances told me it was ok to use. After a good clean & reassembly I popped it on the block with just two bolts & started pumping the oil round. Excellent. :D

On the downside, when I was filling the coolant yesterday there was a leak from the head gasket below the carbs, not good. I'll retorque the head tomorrow, now that the engine's been running, but I don't hold out too much hope that the leak fairies will do their deed overnight. :(
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I went out & retorqued the head this evening. Then I topped-up the cooling system. Then I switched on the ignition to start the EWP circulating the coolant. Hmmm! seems the leak fairies may have fixed the leak after all. [-o< So started the engine & looked & waited & looked some more...........no leak. :jump4joy: Still, I'll wait 'til I can give it a good shakedown before I'm convinced.
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#118 Post by Mad Mart »

My neighbour just brought these over that he made for me...

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They're 55mm. diameter & about 2mm. thick.
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#119 Post by DazasDolly »

Lovely paint scheme Mart, you never fail to impress on your resto's.

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#120 Post by Mad Mart »

Cheers Darren. :)


I'm almost finished. Been working on it the last couple of days, so just the bonnet, some rear trim, clean/polish one more wheel and a new door card to make up.


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Sprintless for the first time in 35+ years. :boggle2: ... Still Sprintless.

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