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Hi Marc,
I understand you are happy with the coolant temperature but not with the engine oil temperature. I beleive that the coolant also cools the engine oil so is that nott a strange situation. I am no specialist in this area and was just wondering.
I also see that you have special valve covers. Did you make these yourself?
The build of your car is so well done and always a joy to see pictures
Peter
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Hi Peter, Thanks for the compliments  Oil getting hot is quite normal on a high horsepower engine - bigger bangs in the cylinder = hotter temps. Water keeps the engine cool but oil keeps the pistons/crank/conrods cool, there is a lot more heat in those items than the engine block. The valve covers were bought - they are nice aren't they I could have made them at work easily though. |
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Today I have mostly been eating wine gums I have also been making the new trans cooler brackets. I started by cutting some 8mm solid bar bits, drilling down the middle & tapping to 5mm.  Then I bent up some 10mm tube and pushed the 8mm threaded bar in the ends. Holes drilled in tube for plug welding.  Brackets cut & ready for welding to the tubes - my old trans cooler is being used as a template as it's exactly the same fixing dimensions.  Almost completed - I need to trim the brackets and radius them off nicely. I can then fit them to the new cooler so I can carefully mark the rad shroud for the new fixing holes. Once this is done I can paint all the brackets satin black.  |
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Today I have mostly been eating Quiche. I have also been trying contact lenses - which are suprisingly comfy straight away, but a right bu66er to remove! I have been making the MkII trans cooler bracket  as the MkI version did not fit was research & development. Now completed with rivnuts fitted to the cooler ears, and I will drill the rad shroud to fit tomorrow.  |
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Mark
Do you have your own Tig Welder?
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Today I have mostly been eating wine gums That's probably the closest thing I can relate to in the whole thread.  If i really concentrate I can make one wine gum last 10 minutes - 6 per hour - a whole bag a day - but then sometimes you want a break from the sucking and chomp through a few sacrificial orange ones. I've recently discovered haribo wine gums after being a long time lover of maynards but the latter have dropped white /clear pear flavour wine gums yet the former have them so are now my wine gum of choice. sorry carry on... |
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Pete, no, only my ancient Sip 150 mig welder. Fresh & minty, I favour the stuff 2-3 in at once & chew - cos I'm a gannet Try Sainsbury's own brand Wine Gums - they are quite good. |
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Today I have mostly been eating Tuna & cooking Goosberries. Brackets are done now, all drilled & fitted. I will test it tomorrow to see what difference it has made (if any). It 'should' make a big difference - but we will see.  Trans cooler is a nice 3mm from the radiator core.  If all is well the brackets will all come of for paint at the weekend. |
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contact lenses . when i stopped wearing hard lenses and went to soft ,the stupid woman said , pinch the lens and pull it out .a teary blurry pain fest ensued at home .i couldn't pull it out and do the lens at the same time ,i needed two hands for the lens !  anyrdup , what she had failed to tell me ,wax your eyeball is super sensitive where the coloured part is ...so trying to pinch the lens off with it on the colour is not nice AT ALL...what i learnt was to put my finger in the edge of the lens and pull it down the eye , then pinch at the bottom , in fact , you can drag it down until it stops against your lower eyelid and it comes aways from the eyeball and flops out with a bit of practise . oh and this week i have mostly been eating marmalade and spinach . |
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Jul 12, 2019 10:27:22 GMT
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Mmm....marmalade & spinach - in sandwiches?
Contacts, I can pull the lens down, just cannot get the hand of pinching them - fingers are too bloody big! I'll try pulling them against the lower lid - thanks for the tip.
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Jul 12, 2019 10:30:49 GMT
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i know what you mean , every now and then i scratch my eye white with my finger nail.
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Jul 16, 2019 21:58:20 GMT
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Today I have mostly been eating cheese with goosberries & ice cream. Hmmm........something seems to be missing;  Ah, there it is!  |
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Jul 16, 2019 22:00:58 GMT
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What’s up with the diff?
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Jul 16, 2019 22:17:50 GMT
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As it turns out......nothing!
Still - approx an hour to get car in air, strip off brakes & halfshafts, drop the prop, remove panhard and take diff out - not to shabby.
I thought there might be some excess end float in the gears as it clunks into reverse recently, and made some knocking noises slowing down at around 5 mph or less. Talking to diff specialist and it turns out the knocking is the locker diff chattering and is completely normal. So diff is out to be checked - but now its out there is less than 1mm movement on the pinion so it's fine!
Oh well, an oil change wont hurt and I had to pull the halfshafts anyway as the nearside has developed a leak, I need to get some internal oil seals for it. The joys of a very narrow axle is the bearings are extremely near the main oil level in the diff casing.
I also had the converter cover off to inspect the flexplate for cracks, (none found) and took the opportunity to add a bit of Dynamat to the cover to make it a bit less tinny.
PS, to paraphrase a well known movie, I just love the smell of EP90 first thing in the morning!!! (not!!)
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Jul 17, 2019 18:49:15 GMT
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The fin pitch on both the rad and the oil cooler looks very tightfrom that photo. A less dense pitch would probably give you better airflow through the pack. In engine cooling, airflow is king. For that fin pitch and thickness of radiator would ideally need an engine driven fan. Please ignore me if I'm teaching Granny to suck eggs. (Just to add) To work with what you have, with the fin pitch tight and also with vertical radiator and horizontal cooler you have probably doubled the air side pressure drop of the cooler area so air doesn't want to go through the cooler at all. A greater chunk of airflow area has been taken up by tube which doesn't pass air. As you say moving it away from the rad should improve this or indeed turning it through 90 degrees so the airways line up. This bit may not look as nice though. I spent 15 years working in the radiator trade and being trouble shooter for the branch . Being involved with rods and customs I knew the nuances that don't appear in a calculation spread sheet . I never bother talking about rads know as everybody knows better or has better info they've read on the internet ...as opposed to hands on experience learned over many years . Our branch built rads for many iconic rods of the 80s and 90s ,but heh ho. |
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Jul 17, 2019 19:03:45 GMT
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The fin pitch on both the rad and the oil cooler looks very tightfrom that photo. A less dense pitch would probably give you better airflow through the pack. In engine cooling, airflow is king. For that fin pitch and thickness of radiator would ideally need an engine driven fan. Please ignore me if I'm teaching Granny to suck eggs. (Just to add) To work with what you have, with the fin pitch tight and also with vertical radiator and horizontal cooler you have probably doubled the air side pressure drop of the cooler area so air doesn't want to go through the cooler at all. A greater chunk of airflow area has been taken up by tube which doesn't pass air. As you say moving it away from the rad should improve this or indeed turning it through 90 degrees so the airways line up. This bit may not look as nice though. I spent 15 years working in the radiator trade and being trouble shooter for the branch . Being involved with rods and customs I knew the nuances that don't appear in a calculation spread sheet . I never bother talking about rads know as everybody knows better or has better info they've read on the internet ...as opposed to hands on experience learned over many years . Our branch built rads for many iconic rods of the 80s and 90s ,but heh ho. So, if you never bother talking about rads any more, what is your point in posting this reply here then? That reply was about as much use as a chocolate teapot....😕 |
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Last Edit: Jul 17, 2019 19:05:34 GMT by Deleted
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.....The inside of that diff is cleaner than the outside of most people’s cars 😂😂😂 |
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,965
Club RR Member Number: 71
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That reply was about as much use as a chocolate teapot....😕 Off topic - 20 years ago the big boss where I work (a sherman) and I were in conversation, I used the chocolate teapot expression when explaining what a horlicks someone in the senior management team had made of an aspect of the process - I had to explain it and from memory got to "ashtray on a motorbike" before the true meaning sunk in. When I was proved right I ended up in one of those recognition and reward things they used to do. I was presented with a foil covered cake stand on which was glued a brown teapot and a large number of chocolate mice in appreciation of my pointing out that it was likely to go pear shaped (and the fact that it did) The chocolate mice tasted good - the silver foil cake stand came in useful when I made one of the young nieces or nephews a cake for their birthday. The teapot I'm pretty sure is in a cupboard somewhere Sorry for the thread jack it was the wine gums that started me down that route |
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^^
Ok. Just to clarify this,,, If it was a ”Blackpopism” , Mark would have said “ Today I have mostly been eating wine gums”. Now seeing this remark comes from you, Ian, does your previous statement read “ Today I have mostly been eating wine gums” or, does it mean ,” Today I have mostly been soaking my gums in Wine?” 😂😂😂
Sorry Mark , for the thread hijack, just needed to clarify as you know what a Bstard that child can be 😂😂😂
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Last Edit: Jul 18, 2019 5:19:46 GMT by Deleted
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bstardchild
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^^ Ok. Just to clarify this,,, If it was a ”Blackpopism” , Mark would have said “ Today I have mostly been eating wine gums”. Now seeing this remark comes from you, Ian, does your previous statement read “ Today I have mostly been eating wine gums” or, does it mean ,” Today I have mostly been soaking my gums in Wine?” 😂😂😂 Last option always |
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as the MkI version 
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