Tom's UVA fugitive, Tom runs a 14s quarter mile :)

Pretty sure friction plates are toast if they get significant oil on them.
Might be able to recover it a bit boiling in biological washing powder for a bit, heard that can help as well as solvents
Good luck with the fixing !
James

And I thought setting up a tent in the wet was quite heroic..

Well done but you were in good company in the wet - I was up the road from you in Northampton single handle loading a car on to the trailer then dragging it back to my place - took forever and the rain was coming out of the lace holes on my boots - utterly soaked

We made it, we did tow the Fug with the car though

The battery was flat and isn’t holding charge, so rather than messing about sorting stuff out before we left, we left early and stopped and got a battery en-route

It was quite nice to be sat in a car with windows and doors when it rained on the M40, it’ll never catch on though



Pitched up, and the suns come out

Tows available !
Dried out nicely through the day by the looks of it.
James

Nah, pretty much dried out after a day of sunshine by the look of it when we dropped in.
James

The show field hasn’t been driven on yet, and it’s pretty much dried out

It’ll be fine in anything even el caminos!!

So, Friday night we went to change the flywheel oil seal, so of course it rained

So we tried to make it a bit more bearable



The weather got worse, so we tried again



We dropped the engine, cleaned everything up and the clutch friction plate had got contaminated





I’d decided to go and get another friction plate on my way home, so that saved us some time... will try to clean this one up still but at our leisure

Had a thought that we didn’t check the end float when we swapped the flywheels. So we went and liberated the doorstop 1200 of its shims and checked it, had to get Denis to measure the shims with a micrometer as we couldn’t measure accurately enough... and though I could find a dti, I couldn’t find micrometer or mag base under pressure. But end float is definately ok now (0.1) checked with feeler gauges



Got it back together, but ran out of time to run it up

We made a decision to a-frame it to the Gathering and worry about it when we got there, if we had problems then we’d just leave it in the show.

Saturday morning, found out the battery won’t hold charge so decided to just sort another en-route
Stopped in Bromsgrove and sorted one, got to site, it was a bit muddy! And as the sun hit the fuel tank, the fuel expanded and started leaking from the fuel breather on the cap!!! We drained a bit out and it was fine for the rest of the day

So this morning drove it round to the show field, it is blowing from one of the exhaust gaskets and needs some more setting up, but seemed fine. Drove to the paddock at lunch time and it started leaking again!



Paul, the commentator came over and thought that the breather pipes were causing the crankcase to pressurise, advises us to move the breather pipe



And it seemed to sort it! Ran up the hill and checked at the top and it seemed fine



Ran back down and it leaked oil again, we were back in the queue again in the paddock, so cleaned it up again and ran up a second time, but called it a day before we broke it

Think I overrevved it on the first run, GoPro video wasn’t very good, but think I hit nearly 7k, so not sure if that would cause it to pressurise a bit more?

Quite a few bits to sort, but we can relax a bit and sort them at our leisure now, it’s VW action in a couple of weeks... but we aren’t going to stress ourselves out too much

It’s a lot quicker though!