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They woke us up at 04:00 on Sunday morning. If I had been younger I might have walked up there....

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Done, thanks

I am trying to get one of those for the Rover 'T' DOHC engine in my Superspec. So far I have found only one and they wanted £51 for it !! I'm going to try and make one myself from a spare piece of stainless. Unless someone here has a spare............

Good news. Hope you are producing a proper wiring diagram for us

Forgot to add that from diagram ignition switch appears to have 3 wires Pin 1 (Brown) (12V in from battery ?) Pin 4 (White) (12V out switched supply ?) Pin 7 (Brown/Red) From Engine (Starter ?) Still guesswork

According to the 'official' Rover ECU wiring diagram, Pin1 (White/Yellow) should go to the Coil -ve and Pin 25 (White/Black) should go to the Coil +ve. But on my copy of the Superspec wiring diagram Pin 1 is not used and Pin 25 (White/Black) actually goes to the Coil -ve. The Coil +ve appears to be connected to Pin 4 on the ignition (White, and I assume is a switched +12V supply ?), which is also connected to Pin 11 on the ECU (Green/Pink) which is the 'Ignition Sensing' pin. I don't enough about how the ECU works to explain the logic of all that so can't promise anything.

Yes, that makes sense. I guess on a tintop there may be a further panel to go through that doesn't exist on ours.

OK, all done, and Richard was correct. The crucial bit of information I hadn't realised before I asked the question was that the outer cable itself was threaded and that the whole plastic unit moved along the cable. I know Ken and Ian told me to check the adjustors, but in this case I felt it wasn't essential. My problem was that the handbrake did not start to 'bite' until the 4th or 5th click of the ratchet and wasn't full on until I did 7 or 8 clicks. So I just wound the cable in a bit so that it now starts to bite on the 2nd-3rd click and is fully on the 5th click. Feels much more positive and no sign of binding even on the first click.. I did finish up tweaking them both equally, just in case, and the picture is before I tightened the second locknut. Still not sure what the purpose of the extra washers are ? . Al

Thanks, good advice, but my question was a lot more basic than that. Have never done this before and wanted to understand how it works before getting under the car. Let me try again. I have the standard 2 cables going through the chassis member, each with two white knurled knobs and what is apparently a floating plastic white washer, So how do they work ? Are they: 1. A unit that screws into the chassis with the outer knob acting as a lock nut. So I would loosen the outer knob and then screw the inner knob anticlockwise to move it away from the chassis member to take up the slack and then tighten up the outer knob ? 2. A unit that simply sits into a hole in the chassis member. so in that case I would grip the outer knob and turn the inner knob clockwise to increase the distance between them to take up the slack ? And am I supposed to adjust both equally ? The Sierra manual seems to suggest you only adjust one of them and the cable will self adjust ? And what is the purpose of the floating washer ? Thanks Al

Can someone confirm for me the procedure to tighten the handbrake cable on a Superspec (I assume the handbrake is off a Sierra). Is it the large white knurled plastic nuts that go through the chassis member ? Or on the bowden cable itself nearer the handbrake lever ? Assuming it;s the white ones, do I adjust both equally or just one of them ? And do I screw them out of the chassis member (towards the back of the car) to tighten the cable, or screw them into the chassis member ? Cheers Al

Hi all I know we are only half way through May but I thought I would give everyone a 'heads-up' for June for your diaries. On Saturday 13th June, Richard (richard7), Mick & Stella (mowerman) and I will probably again attend the "HorsePower at the Hall" meet (https://www.facebook.com/horsepoweratthehall, I see we are still their cover photo ) at Doddington Hall near Lincoln, from 09:00 to 12:00. Even with the rain there were still about 100 cars turned out at the May meet, so if the weather if half way decent there should be a much better turnout. A great chance for catching up with everyone, in a petrol-head environment, with a pub lunch afterwards for those interested. On Sunday 21st there is the annual Castle Bytham Midsummer Fair (http://www.midsummerfair.co.uk/). We had 9 cars there last year and I know everyone who went enjoyed it. It is a 'classic' village show (stalls, classic cars, BBQ, duck race, beer tent, morris dancers, BBMF flypast......). The organisers have said we are welcome to come back, and as the theme this year is the 60s, it is appropriate that they display lots of Lotus 7 lookalikes. Please let me know if you are interested so I can give them a rough idea of numbers. Still looking for a good weekend for a picnic meet up at Rutland Water

Just back from the show. Great attendance from Robin Hoods (OK, I'll be honest there were only 3 of us ). Here's me and Richard (Richard7) and I (Mick and Stella (mowerman) were parked elsewhere) next to a friendly Westfield chap (invited him to join the club and come to the end of season bash) Didn't manage to completely sort the weather out but I got there and back unscathed, just had to put the top up for 30 mins or so at the show when it drizzled. Weather understandably put a lot pf people off but there were still about 100 cars attended. Here are some: Next one is on June 13th, hopefully in better weather.

The Stamford Car Show for 2015 is being held on 30th August. Last year this was a very good show and much appreciated by those that attended. But a few people missed out by not registering before the cutoff date. So if you think you might want to go this year I suggest you register now at http://www.stamfordroundtable.co.uk/car-show/ As it is run for charity there is a £5 entry fee for each car on arrival, but It's free to register,so you have nothing to lose by registering now. Unusually the public get in for free so it is always very well attended. Please make sure you define your car as a 'Modern Classic' then I'll organise a rendevous point somewhere on the A1 near Stamford so we can arrive in convoy and be parked together. I'll try and arrange good weather

I assume they shifted it because of Stoneleigh ? Or maybe Doddington has something on ? And I see the June one is on the 13th, obviously it is the 1st-ish Saturday in each month

Good time at Stoneleigh, car hasn't been out since and now the weather is looking OK for Saturday, so I will be going to the "Horsepower in the Hall" at Doddington. See you all at the BP garage.for a formation departure at 09:00.

Same here. Time I visited them

Good thanks, I'll get on with it. And don't bother with the inspection hole, it doesn't help

Not sure about the track rod ends but I know the steering rack itself comes off a Ford Escort. But if you are only talking about these rubbers Then they are pretty generic. I got my replacements off a jumble stall at Newark Al

Hi Bugsy Interesting, I have never heard of that symptom from a Superspec before, it definitely isn't a systemic fault. I assume it isn't the standard rattle most of get with the clutch out ? Be interested to hear what you eventually find so I can check mine out And for Al: How did you grease your front UJ on the propshaft ? My local 'helper' drilled an inspection hole in the bottom to do it, but reckoned the angle of the joint meant he couldn't get his grease gun onto the nipple. I have tried from the top without success though it would probably be easy if I removed the gear shift linkage ? Al

After our successful outing last weekend at the Stilton Cheese Classic Car Run, and with Stoneleigh this coming weekend, I guess some people might want a break, but if the weather is good, Richard7 and I will be going to the "HorsePower at the Hall" meet at Donnington Hall (LN6 4RU) near LIncoln on Saturday 9th May. This will be the third time this event has been held, and the first two were very successful, in fact our 'Hood' line up is still the cover photo on their Facebook page (https://www.facebook...epoweratthehall). It runs from 09:00 to 12:00 and we can then go to a pub afterwards for lunch. If anyone else wants to join us we meet up at 09:00 at the side of the BP garage (see link) at the Doddington Road roundabout on the A46. I'll do a final update here when we see what the weather is like. And if the weather is good for any of the remaining weekends in May I will suggest something in the South of Lincolnshire (maybe a picnic at Rutland Water?). See you all next weekend. Al

I would probably be one of them as I drove all the way up the A1 from Stilton to well North of Stamford before pulling off for home.