DaveyT

Not sure on the provenance of this info..... Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant. Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant. Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds. Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant. British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales. Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200. M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan. Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants. Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant. Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant. Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant. Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding. Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing. ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase. JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry. UK airports are owned by a Spanish company. Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company. Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online. Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada. 39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria but I wouldn't be surprised...

Probably not this, but... Very similar issue on our french POS, no one could find it cos of all the plastics, but the rear suspension bush has actually come partially out of the shock, so the shock body was hitting the bolt head on heavy bumps. Went thro an MOT like it, too. Quite lucky it didnt slide right over and drop.... good luck

Agree with Paul there... the inside edge of the A pillar looks aprticulary unfinished without the trim. Took about an hour and a half each side. just be extra careful if you can with the rivet placement...too close to the bead and the head of the rivet gun fouls it and will damage it if you dont realise in time.

If its the original mechanical fuel pump ( and the same as my NAa?) then yes, there is a filter in it. i got crud that covered an (old) 50p piece out of mine. Worth a strip and clean, I suggest

Useful info above , thanks all. One addition to the offset dog info: Just put mine back in following the manual's precedure to set at 10deg BTDC, and ended up with the dizzy 180 degrees out, so the cable exit hole was pointing upwards which seemed wrong, and the rotor arm was pointing to #4. I then realised that the ingition sprocket turns twice for every crank revolution, so another turn brought it back round to the right dizzy position, where the slot in the drive spindle is offset to the right of centre, and #1 rotor lined up as it should.

That Upol reface is a godsend, isn't it? Excellent as a conversion coat and surface filler. Glad to see you're still cracking on! Should be doing the front bodyline trim on mine today if it doesnt rain.

Eric, my SP also as described above, but as my carbs are currently on the workbench.... Free movement of the mechanism by hand is 90 degrees from stop to stop. Fairly sure far less than that is actuated by use of the lever though. ATB

How much hassle did you have getting the angles right between the filler neck and the body? Any tips there? for me, and I really struggled, ( but now realise I have to do it again cos I didnt silicone the inner!. 😡), once the filler tube was in place on both the tank and the filler neck, the mating face angles really did NOT want to play -- flush at the bottom but 5mm gap at the top) I got there in the end by iterative tightening of the screws to pull in the filler neck, but it felt like there was unnecessary stress involved to do it. tried spinning the hose round, but that didnt seem to help either...

I'll stick a couple n the car. let me know if you want to hook up and collect them.

Normal propane torch worked fine for me. Had an old bit to play on, and followed the inx to the letter (stainless brush, heating substrate, not rod etc) . took a chisel to it afterwards and damaged the test piece, but couldnt dislodge the new material. there are other alternatives..Dad picked one up from a model show a while back, and we couldnt get that to work, but werent using stainless prep brush at the time.

Fabian, try HTS2000 for you pipe repairs from these guys: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/aluminiumrods?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2754 Aluminium brazing rods...will try to stick a Pic up later, but I had great success with it on my heater pipes last week. Make sure you have a stainless steel brush. going to try a door handle repair in a week or so, too ATB, Dave

In addition to the Esprit? Good luck with it either way....

^^...according to Ben @SWLC, there are often spare O rings once the rebuild is finished. Cheers, Ben

Can anyone set my mind at rest here, please? Attached pic is the SWLC OE service kit for the NA, but I appear to have a couple of spare bits: the single O ring and extra ally washer T the top left by the blanking gasket. I suspect the ally washer has been doubled up, as there was already one on each needle jet, tbut the extra (third of one size) O ring has me baffled. All others matched as per layout. have I missed one? TIA.

@Sparky?? 😂😂 Speaking of which...lovely GT3 at SJ today....

Cheers Ian. Off to SJ tomoz for alternator and other bits anyway....👍🏻 Would I be right to assume that any shims would only be here, not at the top of the housing?

Hi all, just dropping the gearbox oil and noticed these numbers on the sump adjacent to the bellhousing. 020, twice, rhs of pic by the bolts. do they indicate a shimming requirement? Seem to recall washers involved when it was split, but cant really remember... TIA

Pah, you've only had it a year 😂😂 Its good to make sure you do a job a day though, things really come together that way. Hope to re-start my (now retrospective) thread soon. And the offer of an extra eye on any of your problems is still there. glad its coming along!

If you have a flaring tool, could you not run the clutch hydraulics in standard brake pipe. iirc @Barrykearley did it that way on one of his numerous Esprit adventures. Used an expansion loop in the engine bay to allow for flexing i think? think you'd still need to get the appropriate end fittings though? Barry?

You mentioned doing the capping rails the other day...hows that going? i presume you did them on your S1, but there are some great pics from @simon a-b otherwise. I just followed them and got mine sorted in about 2h per side.

Disappointed... I thought it was for the machine gun barrel

Hi Phil, if you've measured the end float, I would doubt that's the problem... mine was .013" (right at the top of the wear limit, not the tolerance band) and was easily visible to the naked eye at the crank pulley end, but still no adverse noise from the engine as you've been hearing. Another dti check at the crank pulley should set your mind at rest though...?

I'm sure I've seen somewhere on here that someone added a mod for the failure scenario.. iirc, it was essentially a piece of string tied up under the rear valance 😳.??...but apparently, it worked perfectly!

Hope things are progressing well here, Sparky. 'scuse my ignorance, but what are the syptoms of cam tower leaks, and under what conditions would they normally be spotted? Just in case I ever get my bloody car going again, like.... Tia, Dave

Not sure if it helps, but ive just measured (drill blanks) and replaced my fuel hose with cohline from merlin motorsport. Got appropriate stainless fuel clamps too.. measurements were 9mm (3/8) from tanks to fuel cut off (1.5m total), and 6mm (1/4) through to the carbs(1m total). Remember tho mine is the NA.