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Morning all in the grip of the Beast From The East!!! Been far too long since and update but a major milestone as per the attached, had to link to one of our web servers as we cannot upload videos here but with the help of Geoff and chums at Taylor Automotive this was the result Start Up Not...

Could not recommend it highly enough, just my experience but Mick is a goldmine of info and loves these cars so much.

Hi John, welcome to the group, great info here plus concur the owners club is worth it for the magazine only!! What base kit are you building? Cheers

Ian that's a good idea and easy to test, Mick said he wired to the starter could well have been that and luckily its close. Paul did not know you used LED's? What size did you use? 68 Ohm 5W as per Mike's suggestion? Meant to get up there tonight but on bloody calls with off shore dev teams...

Thanks chaps Mike that sort of re-enforces the strands I found on the web but confirms the Ohm value needed and Neil that also makes sense, progress to LED's not quite in line with the good old alternator technology, still wont need them soon we will all be run by batteries!!

Mick at SGT suggested connecting the yellow / white to permanent 12V and he says that does the trick, in my diagram it had it to switched live and in another said it was only needed if it was overcharging, Mick said when he switched live as per my diagram it hit 17v!! Still will light the way...

Indeed Eddy that was a thought but all others are LED plus I have a bleeding great hole in the dash now if I did, odd they sell charge warning lights in LED if they cause problem but in essence they just change the lens. The resistor was to bridge the LED and allow some current through as when...

Morning all Ok so here is one for the group, my engine now runs and I will be updating the build log been far too long, bit I have no alternator charge, all wiring looks ok so did some digging and it seems the alternator needs the warning light to energise up the coils until the alt takes over...

Bill, I sure am, there was me thinking they were better than good old rubber!!! Do they ever stop dripping?? Its the two that connect to the rad are the issue mainly

Never seen those bad boys!!!

Cheers Eddy that's worth a check, consensus seems to be valve not required which is good news!! Bad news is I got one but they are good at returns Now I just need to sort a non charging alternator and loads of water leaks, Mick mentioned silicon hoses are notorious for that, mine are clamped...

Yep not sure mine came with one, spoke to Mick at SGT and he says not to bother never done or needed one in the past, I just dont see how it would work anyway unless the whole lot swirl pot and all was pressurised Anyone need a OWV :)

Ok so a quick one here for the group, thinking I need a OWV on my fuel rail, I have them on the LP side to stop fuel being back fed to the wrong tank, issue on the HP side is the ECU primes the fuel rail and after 10 seconds will shut the pump off which is a good thing in my book stop the pump...

Hi Mike, are they MOT / IVA compliant as I have heard some retro fit ones are not, if so what make / model did you use as I would rather LED them if only for the lower current draw, cheers

Tragic news, taken too soon, thoughts with family, he will be missed I am sure by us all.

Blimey Dave you take care of yourself more in 2021, what a bloody year we are having, not as bad as Dave's mind you!!

Hi Spike, I used this lot, http://www.hilltopservices.co.uk/index.html they did some work for me but were as I recall ok just offering the block as is. I too struggled as they are hens teeth now, I think the other issue I heard was that donors we had in the past are now no longer donors more...

Great thanks for the clarification, a good idea methinks, not best to get reverse by mistake!!! Interesting re the play angle, a little on an amount of parts seems to add up to a sloppy shift

This is really interesting stuff, I have dry fitted my gear rods but am not happy with the general sloppiness of the whole thing not in a small part due to the actual shift rod coming out the UN1 it seems quite loose in its housing even thought its fully rebuilt, Bob I like the gusset you have...

Hi wanting to add stops to the pairs of jenvey TB's so I can hard stop each bank, on the jenvey the stops they have are on 2 of the 4 banks diagonaly, they are in effect these which I nabbed from an ad for a full linkage set Have asked jenvey as well but recently they have been poor at...