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Ricardo combustion chamber I have tried putting the plug over the piston on a side valve motor that had a bung for seting the timing, it ran like a bag of shit.

Behind the salvation army, I saw a place with spiderwebs on there logo, didn't catch the name tho.

Is that your shop in gleneden in the back street?

The blacking in the top and sides of a valve is no worry, it happens when they activate the "Getter" when they make them.

That cylinder holding down system looks good, do you have much in the way of Villers parts? Looking for some bits for a MK9D

I would worry about the cylinder snapping off at the flange, seen this happen to a J.A.P. motor

LOL, they are longish, fit about 2 people, have a few patchups, you could join 2 togeather and make a pontoon. I am still in japan so can't get to them for pics

There are 2 of them in the grass at my grandmothers place, we don't use them anymore, are you far from auckland?

I use to make huts with asbestos sheets, I use to smash a line of holes with a hammer and then snap it to make the sizes I wanted, at my friends house he had a ceiling sprayed with asbestos cement, we would chuck shit at it and make the snow fall down. this was about 25 years ago, I had bad chest pain a few months ago and had a couple chest Xrays but it was all clear. I know an old guy who worked in an asbestos mine in Quebec and then for James hardy asbestos products and he is fine, but then a friends friend was a plumber and is fucked from it.

I could probley score you a sweet fiberglass Canoe for this if you want?

A friend of mine had a VW beach buggy that seized up, in the end the piston had to be smashed and chiseled out of the bore.

We use to do this at uni tec, I am not sure of the chemicals we used but it used a car battery and a big slide variable capacitor, we were doing nickel plating, it only took a few mins for it to work, had to start the amps low then build them up or it would turn black. You don't really want to have the shit you do chrome plating with around your house, its toxic

Found the problem this is a Maintenance Free bratty, the caps in the top have been added by the factory for testing with a hydrometer, they never need topping up apparentley. I topped it up, that's why the cell is leeking, what a dumb arse.

PM sent you need to fab a set of extractors

Its an Endurant with the caps to top it up, i just did about 40kms round town and tested it agearn got 14.4 volts and the battery was gassing like hell, I will take it back tomorrow as it has a 3 year warranty and its been in the car for 12 months

Yes 14.5 was the max it went to, I think it is boiling out just one or two cells

I got a new car battery last winter sometime, it has been good but the other day I opened the bonnet and it has been leeking out the caps like it has been boiling, I tested the voltage with the car running switching the headlights on and off but it never went over 14.5 volts. Would a battery do this is it is failing?

The 1976-79 intake manifold flows better than the older ones and moves the carbs away from the exhaust , I have an exhaust manifold you can have if you want it, you could try acid etching the inside

I got that green shit in my new water pump to, I had it pull it off after a week as i pinched a seal, I can only guess it was from poring in concentrated antifreeze then adding water and letting the car sit over night before I started it.

so you don't turbo all your fuel air mix out the other end

I did that yesterday alot of them don't have the MF stamped on them or on the box,

I am after a condenser around .35 microfarads, I carn't serch the condensers in the book under microfarads, need to know what car its from, Dose anyone know what vehicle uses a .35? could someone with a Ford escort check the MF rating it may be close to what I need.

Could you clamp that power valve in some angle iron and weld it? farm and trail te awamutu might have some bits but $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I had an old BMW R90 and the handlebar mounts corroded like on your forks, it was like rotten wood.

Sounds pretty good to me, I think I will use the vmx80 in the gearbox

I will have a look out for Castrol vmx80 maby ripco will have it, Now days do they call GL4 MP not EP? Don't think there is any needle rollers in the box,