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Thanks for your thoughts all, much appreciated. Pretty much echoed my own meditations.

Hello all. I'm snooping for advice on a car for sale - GDU470D. The upper body and interior are excellent, but dealer has some pictures with a lot of underseal and some suspiciously abundant welding. Welding seems blobby to me. No history, no MOT since 2022. Anyone here have any advice? I am conside...

Thanks for your help all. One more thing checked off the list. For anyone else reading this in the future new to the task: the only complication I found was removing the split pin end assembly because I had to replace the number eight screw and nut. Even that wasn't particularly difficult at all - j...

Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:04 am Yes reset the valve clearance, it maybe worth checking aĺl whilst the valve cover is off.

Thanks Bill! What about the adjusting screw itself? Is it possible to just extract it after taking the locking nut off? One of mine is quite chewed up and would probably like replacing.

Hello all. Hopefully a straightforward one: to replace a threaded locknut on the rocker adjustment screw, do I need to do anything more involved than simply unscrewing it and popping a new one on?

Thanks!

It was the head gasket, a straightforward failure between the first two rings. Took me a while but it's all sorted now. I did let the mechanics do it, seeing as we know a few good old boys familiar with the A Series. At this point I'm quite optimistic that nothing else should be wrong, but I will ke...

Thanks all. I do have a fair notion it being the head gasket, but I'm not about to take its head off myself - simple job it may be but, on reflection, I've decided to let the garage have a go. It's the sort of job I'd like to do with someone around who's done it themselves before. Knowing me I'd put...

Updating just in case anyone finds this thread in the future and finds conclusions helpful... So far the issue has evaded diagnosis. The oil is perfectly clean, there's no mayo anywhere, and it sounds to fresh ears more like a catastrophically bad timing issue than anything. Nonplussed I therefore a...

From my own experience, a broken crankshaft was a loud knocking that progressively got louder, together with a loss of power. Your 'fizzy wizzy clattery' might well be head gasket - its hard to tell at a distance simply from a description of the noise. But a failed head gasket will not always resul...

I would expect more of a clattering noise were it the head gasket. An actual knocking could well be a broken crankshaft - its happened to me in the past - engine developed a knocking noise which increasingly got worse and it soon became obvious I was not going to be able to drive home. It did seem ...

Thanks for your thoughts, all. Tremendously helpful. I doubt it's transmission related. The gearbox is a bit crotchety but I don't think it would reach into the motor and strangle itself - more likely a dying gearbox would do some big buzzing clanking grinding noises? Unless anyone knows any stories...

Well my engine packed up today! It was fine this morning. Started without complaint later in the day but after I pulled away it quickly developed a knocking noise - this rapidly deepened and power dropped away. Within fifteen seconds and about the same number of feet traveled I knew it wasn't gettin...

I had the gearbox oil changed a couple of months ago at the garage. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to easily check it myself since the type 9 gearbox isn't user friendly. Love it if anyone has tips for checking.

Hi all. My 1959 car has a Charles Ware job gearbox in it - Ford Type 9 (find them in Ford Sierras). Everything runs alright except the whine. It's rather loud in any gear except 4th, and after having warmed up (driven more than about 30 mins) it slowly grows into a more horrible musical chord of une...

Thanks very much for your help. I had rather thought that's what it looks like. Oh dear! Time for a trip to the garage...

That's fab, thanks all. I've identified mine as a Perculator. Soon enough it will be time to take it apart and stick those rubber bits in there where they belong!

20240726_180322.jpg 20240726_180326.jpg Hello all. My traveller has a rather nasty bit of rust along the very back end. Can anyone offer any observations - how difficult it may be to mend, if it's a particularly crucial part of the structure, etc.? Thanks in advance. I can post more images if that ...

Hello folks. I'm new to Minor ownership and have noticed a rather small leak from my oil filter. In short: what are Purolator and Tecalemit oil filters? What sort or brand of rubber and felt rings can I get to fit in my normal oil filter? Would those above brands work alright? In painfully pointless...

Hello Bill, thank you very much. You are right. In my case there was a bit more to it. The earth wire going from the commutator had perished. It was making contact at a couple of points along its length. I suppose that explains the wipers going on occasionally when the switch is in the off position....

Hello all. I would really appreciate some guidance on my wiper motor. It was previously over eager and ran the wipers on ignition without the switch being on. I tested whether the whole thing was being earthed by removing the earth wire - and this stopped them from working so there is no faulty eart...