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hi anyone know a gearbox specialist sometimes notice mine jumps out of 3rd and 5th gear would like to get it repaired  in the winter 

rad sitting upright, i bought the car in bits with engine and gearbox out 

2 hours ago, churchy said:

I run a 2 litre pinto and had overheating problems a few years ago and the previous owner had removed the thermostat, I found out after trial and error that my radiator just wasn't getting enough air flow through it. I put a double core rad in which increased cooling capacity and then a electric fan but made sure that when the fan ran it pull air across the whole of the rad and the car now runs lovely with a thermostat back in even in traffic, to me if the thermostat is missing this has been an on going problem, also at the same time as my cooling problems i changed my volt meter for an oil temp gauge which I think is far more benifical, I noticed my oil temp was high especially when I was high revving the car, I do have a sump guard fitted but i did fit an air to air oil cooler in front of my rad, ran it from my oil filter with an thermostatic sandwich plate so not to cool the oil too much as this is worst than getting it too high, I had to change my oil filter for an cosworth filter, it passes the same oil rate and is ok with 20/50 oil but is smaller in length so it would fit inside my engine bay. The filter came from Burton and is a EFL298 FILTER this did bring my oil temp down and now it is happy days. Hope this helps Andy

I removed the thermostat when I put the engine back in . It's just like lam not getting a good amount of air flow 

5 hours ago, IanS said:

I run a 2l pinto and have never needed an oil cooler, sump protrudes under car and gets a good blast of air.

Radiator has electric fan mounted on it that sucks air through the rad with thermostatic switch in top hose.

Standard thermostat fitted.

Solid bonnet no louvers.

Only time it overheated was when stuck in traffic and an unsupported wire shorted and the fuse for the fan blew. My fault for a quick mod to the wiring.

 

same as mine but i have removed the thermostat, i still must have a air lock somewhere 

do any of you guys run with a a oil cooler on 2L pinto engines to help keep temp down ?

could not take live feed from dip headlights 

i would set it at zero most of the old cars was set at this 

ok thanks

i have a 12" electric fan fitted drawing air though the rad do you think this is the the right size ref my overheating problem or should i have fitted a 14" one ? ref my post in bigday

short sump for 2L pinto would prefer steel one

wish i was near  you

17 hours ago, brumster said:

Much as I love sikaflex, I didn't want to entrust it so went with rivnuts, stainless domed bolts and chassis padding underneath :

thats the way i have done mine with s/steel dome bolts

3 hours ago, MarkBzero said:

This is what being club member is all about, you cannot put a price on it. But when you need something a club member is always willing to help out.

yes i have had a great deal of help and kind offers thanks to richy ( seats) and tony (badge)  was well worth the joining fee looking forward to meeting some of you, fingers crossed looking at getting on the road end of month

yes sell them too me

thank you tony message  sent

anyone got a robin hood badge for sale the one that goes on the nose cone tried gbs but out of stock

hi has anyone got a stick on front number plate if so any problems  eg mot/police ect would like to put one on the nose  cone like the old e type had on top, not at the bottom of cone

yes have done this

7 minutes ago, alanrichey said:

The Superspec has a dual venting system.   In the top middle of the tank (Fiesta or Escort, we are not sure) there is a narrow (2mm?) pipe with a short piece of plastic pipe (3cm?) to vent the tank during day-to-day driving as fuel is used.  I guess this would leak fuel if the accident caused the car to be upside down.  There is a secondary wider pipe (8mm?) that goes from the tank to the filler pipe, just behind the filler cap itself.   This vents the tank while the petrol is being poured into the tank and allows me to operate the pump at maximum flow.

the only one i can see is vent thats in the filler neck think mine is robin hood tank s/steel it just goes from filler neck to bottom of the car underneath 

hi how have you vented your fuel tank filler pipe, mine is the std sierra plastic neck into tank and has a small pipe coming off the side near the top and just vented out the bottom off the car is this the right way ? would like to fit one way valve as to let tank vent but stop petrol leaking out in case of a accident 

hi we might be interested as well hopefully will have the car finished and on the road in the next 2/3 weeks as only in next county 

hi take it to a auto electrician they should be able to rebuild it 

hi dan thanks ,think i will go with your advise 

is it best to remove engine fan and fit electric ? is this enough ? or would you fit a additional electric fan and use both 

yes will fit electric fan but would like to run both