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Hello, after further investigation i can confirm that i have the earier type LT77 gearbox(dont know why i thought reverse was right and down but i was convinced that it was, im sure this car is making me go nuts) i can get into reverse with the gearlever removed so i know that the problem is in the ...

Have had my dutton back on the road for a couple of months now (although most of that time was spent trying to make it run a bit cooler, and then finding and fitting a new brake master cylinder) i went for another test drive at the weekend and all was well, until i returned to my garage and tryed to...

Yea i will try and look at under the rockers, There is no engine number as in it just aint there, just did the head gaskets and there was a very faint but illegible number under the gasket on the same bank as the number should be on so i guess that it has not been skimmed, it does not look like the ...

Temp guage seems to vary since i stripped the engine, and replaced the thermostat (cooled down with a 74c thermostat in, against not having a thermostat in it as it was when i bought it) but yes is hot, dont know why i thought this temperature in the heads was an issue. I suppose there is so much pl...

Hello i have a couple of issues with how my engine runs, as the head and block seem to get very hot, as in to hot to touch, is this to be expected? Also the engine seems to 'breathe' quite heavily it has litttle k&n filters on the breathers and when the engine is up to temperature these both hav...

I had spotted that post but have been trawling through the forum looking for similar problems to mine, [just finished the head gasket change and in the process of fixing the leak from the thermostat housing that appeared when i put a thermostat in (74c as it didint previosly have one at all)] that i...

Can anyone help me to identify the cylinder heads on my engine 3.5 rv8 they are stamped at rear on the near side and front on the off side on a flat face parrallel to the exhaust outlets one says 45xN2 and the other says 41xM1, i am not sure if these are just somebodies personal marks or if they mea...