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take the battery off, charge it, remove the plugs, put them in the oven after the sunday roast is finished and cook for a while,
Reconnect the battery, Floor the throttle, turn the engine over for 30 seconds, refit the plugs, if they are hot even better,
Then try to start the engine.

I painted my calipers with smoothrite, it was still on the calipers when I sold the car 6 years later, not a mark on it, and I did drive my cortina quite hard, there are a few people on here who will testify to that!!!!! :lol: There is a company thats been about a few years offering exchange rebuild...

If you can get it to launch without lunching the trans, that could be real fun, not sure about the headers tho. make a cracking wheelstand car,

Little hijack here, is it hard to fit the Jag LSD to the scimitar Se5 diff,

can be a couple of things, assuming everything is stock, A wiggle of the clutch arm should be an indication if it has detached, with the pushrod pushed right back, there should be very little play in the pushrod if you have there are a couple of options here, A bent clutch arm has net been unheard o...

You probably also know it was a S/T kit as well, partially developed with Car & Car Conversions in the 70s, and I believe the kit was used to make the V8 pickup Custom Car did as a project vehicle

Im with sidecar there, if you have an aftermarket uprated gearset, its highly possible they have less of a helix on them, which will make them noisy

r2d2hp wrote:I use the Comma Sonic 20/50 as it has more additives.

http://www.commaoil.com/productsguide/view/6/247/SON5L/

Reg, at our age, you need all the additives you can get.

Pel, You are a dab hand with Devcon, just need to buy a bigger tub, As you want to keep to BL, If it was me, I think I would be looking as a pseudo BL short engine, there must be a few smaller capacity engines laying about within the drag racing circles. I know this will run against the ethos of the...

Ideal oppotunity to have the crank offset, depending on what rod size, but SBC or BBC will give you a huge choice in cheap rods, but then screws you tith the unavailability of pistons in the right bore size, Thinking outside the box again, Remember those pistons I had, oversize Ford Modular pistons,...

This is not the thread i saw but it could give you an Idea
http://roverp5.proboards.com/index.cgi? ... hread=6276

Ian I thought the cam buttons had a teflon insert in the bolt head, I prefer that idea too. The one I had was what looked like a machined bolt with a mirror finish dome on it, I wondered after I fitted it about wear problems, never gave me any problems, BUT, I always fancied remaking it with a 10mm...

The earlier engines were, as Denis said, held in position by the thrust from the cam gear, there was a available a aftermarket cam button, which, bolted into the end of the cam, replacing the bolt, it was essentially a longer bolt and locknut with a domed, polished head which was adjusted by trial a...

timber wedged in the crank is ok, but make sure you are not resting against a rod.
Before you give it a hard time with a windy, A good heavy, sharp blow on the bolt head, then, get a BIG breaker bar, and tighten the bolt!!!, then try to undo it, you may be surprised

Getting closer Perry! Can you do anything about the obvious asymmetry in the launch, where the passenger side front wheel lifts much more than the drivers side. A torque tube maybe? Chris. Nah its easier than that, ballast the left side, by converting it to LHD, :D :D :D :lol: More fact than fun, :...