Moggie main bearing shells? 30 - 37 quid a set for 6 bits of bent metal seems a bit extortionate to me, especially when other old 3 bearing engines I've played with have been nearer 10 - 20 quid! However, the engine could really do with them, as the old ones are showing the copper in places. The crank's lightly scored as well, so I've done the big ends to try and keep the oil pressure up as...

If any one out there is looking for something to do on July 11th and is in Southern UK why not come along too The BIG mini 45 meet at Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hants We have a whole host of clubs, traders and events going on during the day in this free entry Mini show. check out

I have an old "Jones Speedometer" for sale where is the best place to sell or to advertise it please.(location West Midlands). Tom

Any half decent ones reasonably close to South London on today? -- *Geeks shall inherit the earth * Dave Plowman London SW 12 RIP Acorn

I am in the final year of a technology education degree course, part of which involves designing a product and manufacturing it to prototype stage. The product has to be original, or better designed, than any similar product on the market. I am posting this message to a number of newsgroups in the hope that someone will have a problem with a product they use, or can't find a product to suit...

Just rescued this machine from the scrap yard as far as i can make out its missing its motor and the bracketry to bolt it down onto a block it also needs cats-claws......... what are these cats-claws what do they look like. and what is that funny arrangement with a spring on the business end . The model number is...

Hi all Perhaps the collective wisdom of this group can help cast a light on my missing cylinder. Car is a 1980 MGBGT, cylinder pressures are 170, 175, 175, 180, plugs, points, condenser, rotor arm, cap and leads all new. No obvious fouling on any of the plugs, points at 15 thou and clean. She runs fine for the first run after cleaning / setting gaps, then next time you start up - only three...

Is there any way to adjust the travel on the clutch pedal on a 1969 Triumph Herald 1200. At the moment the clutch does not dis-engage until about 1" from the floor (without carpets), resulting in plenty of gear crunching - mainly 1st & 2nd and it is quite a strain on my old knee! The clutch plates are fairly new (10,000 miles) Cheers Ron

I have a 948 engine which came out of my first Frogeye, back in 1971. It was painted gold so I assumed it was a factory Gold Seal unit. It has 950 cast into the block, but the engine number prefix is 8G. Over 33 years I have never been able to find out why this prefix violates the BMC convention. Any ideas?

Hello, I covered last month's RMU Classic races in Spa Francorchamps in Belgium as photographer. There were a lot of UK teams (especially in the British Sports Cars category, hehe). I have a bunch of pictures (around 400) and some are visible he http://www.forseilles.net/misc/rmutmp.html Stephan

Greetings from the States, I went to a Euro Carshow today, and this lady is there with her 1913 Rolls Royce Touring Car, that she's DRIVING from Philadelphia to Pebble Beach.... She's ALONE! Heck, I'm scared to drive my '53 Buick to McDonalds! This is easily the neatest thing I've seen in years.... I've posted a bunch of pics on my site... This woman deserves to be profiled in USA Today, for...

A friend of my mother's mentioned to her that they're about to move house and need to get shut of an unfinished project. Initially I heard it was a 1973 Lotus Elan and pricked up my ears accordingly. My mother has just phoned again to say she's spoken to them and that it's an _Elite_ and N reg ('74?) at which point I lost interest somewhat. What puzzles me is that she's sure they said it's a...

Hi ! I'm looking for MGB oversize pistons (+0.060) to another British car. So, can you recommend some shops where to find these pistons and also dimensions for these pistons (height, pin size etc.). I think that Ferguson TEF tractor has same cylinder diameter, maybe it has same piston than MGB. BR, Jukka

Can anyone recommend a cheap brake pipe flaring tool or are only top quality ones worth bothering with? I'll eventually need a couple of sets of Morris Minor pipes which are sold pretty cheaply so may be better off buying them ready made, but then I wouldn't have a new tool to play with...

I can't -get the front wheel bearings adjusted correctly on the Spitfire. ... either too tight or ( according to the MOT tester ) too slack. I wish for some thrust washers of different thickness', anyone know where I can get some... or maybe some suggestions on making them. tia Chris

I need a 3.75 pcd flange mounting hub puller to do various small Triumph hub removals. Any ideas wher I might find one? So far drawn a complete blank.... Jonners

Has anyone knowlege of the relative outputs of the two styles of oil pump ('gear' and 'rotary vane') ? Both have been fitted to the big Healeys over the years, and both are available and it make sense to fit the one with greater volume delivery. I suspect that the gear type surplanted the vane type on ease of manufacture and cost rather than performance but can anyone confirm this? Andrew...

Somebody at my Depot in Luton has an old Rover P6, bodywork pretty well finished, but she assures me it has a good 3.5 v8 with something like 50K on the clock, it was going to be a resto, but is too far gone. Car is 1976, but I don't know which engine/carbs it has. She wants £100, and you'll have to recover it from Luton. Anybody interested? Alex

From my late fathers estate, I've inherited a couple of car badges. The CSMA one is on the front of my car, but there is also an AA badge, flat with the wings on the top, a serial number on the back(?) and a phone and telegram number on the front. It's chromed. What are these worth? When I looked on the web, e-bay seemed to have only replicas and the only original I could find was on Canadian...

Me old Triumph 1300FWD TC needs shifting by the end of the week and I've given up on it. I just don't have the time spare to look after it and so rather than scrap it I want to pass it on to someone who might be able to look after it a bit better. It failed it's MOT about 2 years ago on some daft indicator problem (was only working intermittently and the guy who charged me £200 to fix...