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New ones on the way but I fear they may be the same. I read somewhere that the later K Frames had a different strut rod bush. anything to this??

That’s what I initially thought, but the aperture for the bush is bigger than the lip that sits into the aperture. So you can’t properly centre the bush.

Hi Guys, Back at the car again after giving it a rest for a Good while. I thought I’d get a couple of jobs done while self isolating and ordered some parts. among the parts I got some strut rod bushes. I checked a couple of sites and all List the energy suspension 57109 for my year, I checked...

Cool car. Welcome from Ireland

Really, The distributor felt ok when I seated it in the slot with the intermediate shaft out. But then I did have t bottomed out in the slot. I did note the burring on the top of the slot but thought it might be ok. Hard to know when you’ve no point of reference. Don’t see many of them this...

Waiting on the timing tapes to arrive. Just popped the distributor out to check the drive gear and slot. There seems to be a bit of play with the gears itself. Is this play excessive?

Thanks the steering is a lot better now with box and coupler rebuilt, need to Sort a timing issue now to get it back on the road.

Cheers guys. I’ll pull it tomorrow evening and have a look at the drive gear. Should there be any play in the gear at all??

The total timing appears to be fine. It just didn’t return to the initial I set. In the video there is a little side to side play with very light touch of the hand like slack before you feel the spring tension

I wasn’t sure about that play. I’ll pull it and check it out to see if there is anything obvious. Do the shaft ends or drive gears wear?

Just the one type of gas sold over here really. No idea on the type of damper, just looks like a standard damper. Suppose I better pull no1 plug and confirm it’s location to rule it out. One thing that I did notice and i put it down to the dial back on the light was when I started to increase...

I don’t think the flamethrower II is multi spark, no issues before setting the timing. Gonna try a tape anyway. Gladly accept any pointers if anyone has any ideas.

Hi all, I had an issue with my car the last time I had it out, it started pinging. I'd set the timing up well over a year before after fitting a Petronix Ready to Run distributor. Anyway I pulled over about a mile from home and backed the timing off and this seemed to help. I just completed...

When I looked to having one shipped to Ireland, they were all rebuild services.

I just finished rebuilding mine with new seals and setting the lash on the bench. Not for the faint hearted. Seems a lot tighter now, but haven’t got out for a test drive yet to see how it handles. Only rebuilt the couples last night. Mine had slot of play, check that for play too as it may be...