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Welcome from me too - great to see our newest area secretary has got 3 new members already Also nice to see a new member close to myself. Steve

I've been given a couple of flyers for an event at Curborough on the 26th and another at Eccleshall on the 31st if anybody is interested in a day out. I don't know anything more about them yet and I haven't had chance to look on the websites, but they both involve cars Events_Aug24.pdf.

As per rule 3 for adverts on the forum, can you put a price on please? Thanks, Steve

Glad you had a good day, not glad I didn't get there

There's clever with the picture I'm sure I'll be there, but I'm not sure what I'll be driving In fact, the way things are going I might come on the bus

Sorry to hear your news but glad to hear you're staying a "hoodie". Please accept best wishes from myself and on behalf of the club . Steve

Thanks for the suggestion, I thought the same, I'd had problems with the engine "coughing" and I thought it had probably ripped a mount apart. I did find that some of the bolts would tighten up a smidge but nothing else - the rubber bits of all the mounts were new last new month when the engine & box went back in. I've even tried lifting the engine until the front wheels of the car are off the ground and all seems OK so I don't think it's the mounts. What I really need is somebody to sit in the engine bay while I drive it, to see where the noise actually comes from All being well I've got a day to myself on Wednesday so I'll give it a good session of looking at and see what I can find.

I was really looking forward to this show and all was going well until somewhere past Uttoxeter when the car developed a scary noise from somewhere under the bonnet (I think) every time I decelerated. It sound like something has broken and was rattling around but, having driven back home slowly, I spent several hours in, under and round it NOT finding anything !!! I now know exactly how to get it to make the noise but I still have no idea of what it is. I'm sure this will probably make a good story when I finally fix it.

I'd love to keep you company but as fast as I fix one thing something else seems to go wrong at the moment. I've now got the engine running OK but a strange (scary) noise when you lift off to decelerate. At the moment I can't even figure out exactly what it is or quite where it comes from ! Put me down as a definite maybe and hopefully I'll get it sorted by the weekend - I might be giving you a ring to pick your brains if I don't get anywhere in the next couple of days

New carb. is on & engine is running a lot better - needs a bit of setting up but I should be there tomorrow. I'm aiming for somewhere between 10:00 & 10:30 so see you all there. Don't forget - this year we've got to be square

I'm with Phaeton on this. The pressure on my pinto would stay up, even when ragged round a track. It only dropped a bit at idle, when hot. Sorry but I can't remember the actual pressures.

I would suggest it's going to be worth about £4k when up and running with an MOT. Hope this helps, Steve

I'm hoping to be there but I'm having engine trouble at the moment. I've ordered a new carburettor and I'm hoping it solves the problem - watch this space.

Not happy I missed it but glad it went well. New carburettor on the way so, hopefully, that will get me running again.

I'm not going to make it tomorrow - can't get the car to run right. I've sent you a PM.

I'd recommend you put a bit of grease on the drill and then any "bleep" will stick to the drill and not drop into the waterway.

I'm not going to make it over that early - I'd be getting up before I'd gone to bed Don't wait for me - I'll see you there.

Hi Chaps - are we meeting at the garage ? If so, what time ? The paperwork I've got says we're supposed to be there between 7am & 9am so it looks like I'll be getting up at silly'o'clock

I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at there - are we looking up from inside the cylinder ? If you can get the borescope into the exhaust port, so you're looking at the valve stem side of things, you can usually see where replacement seats have been fitted.

Glad to hear you're sorted

I can't see anything wrong with the wiring on your video but you do seem to have the same connector as me for the ignition and lamp wires. I found that I had to push the actual ignition spade connection in to get a good connection on mine, as if the connector body didn't push in quite far enough to make a good connection (mine was intermittent). Could you lose the connector body and try the spade connectors straight onto the alternator terminals ?

Thanks to everyone who turned up last night - I reckon that's got to be a record turnout since Covid. I think Andy took some pictures so watch this space.

Easiest way to check if you have an open, limited slip or "locked" diff is to jack up one back wheel with the gearbox in neutral & handbrake off. If you can turn the wheel it is an open diff, if not it's a limited slip (or otherwise locked) diff.

The standard pinto oil filler cap is vented with a wire mesh filter built in. The crankcase should be vented somewhere else as well, either to atmosphere though a catch tank or back into the air intake. If these are blocked you'll get a build up of pressure in there and something has to give. I'm guessing it's probably too late to check the filler cap

I bought this in 2021 so it must have been for the 2B Pinto/type9 QKT742AF see eBay - 403008591103