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By JumpingFrog · Posted
One semi-certain way to tell, if it has a castle nut on the pinion, which denotes a solid preload spacer it will be a 3.89. I think all 3.63s had a collapsible preload spacer, which had a nyloc. Of course modifications are possible but not very likely. There are also some odd ball configurations (4.55 or 4.11 from Marina or Dolomites), but 3.89 will be by far the most likely option for a round flange Spitfire diff with a castle nut. -
Progress has been slow this week as time to spend on the car has been limited. Not helped that I picked up a diff from ebay last night. A bit of a gamble as it has an unknown history other than being sat in a garage for 20 years. I think it's the correct original unit for my car and the flanges match with the unit currently installed. At the very least I should be able to clean, paint, drill a drain hole, then rebuild my diff into this case with new seals and hopefully no leaks. A quick search online suggests it's a type D marked and with FH so from a Mk4 spit, and so better than 1500 i have fitted which is a bit long for me. If this is the factory internals then it should be a 3.89 ratio which will be slightly more peppy than the 3.63 I currently have and I think it should correct the speedo readout. One issue is that I can't confirm the ratio as the driveshaft input is seized as least as far as turning by hand. I think I'll have to take it apart whatever happens so I might just do that and see what's what. Definitely a job for after the car is back running again!
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Extra places for festive lights! I'm entirely with you on not involving the powers that be. It's not fallen down yet, you'll make it better than it was, and you have the piece of paper saying it's fine. The only advantages I can think of in engaging with them would be either to acquire evidence with which to sue the original builders (probably not worth the bother, assuming the builders even still exist), or if you were looking for the correct way to repair it.
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By JumpingFrog · Posted
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I was kind of hoping this was the one part of the works that the previous occupants had carried out that wasn't shoddy. Not sure why I thought that, only the building regs side of things reassured me. Council offered to look at some photos of it and decide if it needs reassessing, but I don't think it's a good idea to take them up on their offer, nothing good can come of it, only more expense for me when they decide it's non-compliant. I'm not entirely sure what the best way to sort it out is, so may get someone in to do it. I don't like the idea of loading the relatively thin and non-reinforced slab with structural loads if a pier was constructed. I suspect the best option is going to be to simply rebuild both sections of wall in higher density concrete blocks topped with a padstone or engineering brick. Here is a shot from further back for more context: I'm probably going to end up leaving it alone now until the new year, as I'm sidetracked with the gas meter relocation, most of the ground works are done now, but I still need to excavate a little more and add a bedding layer of sand as there is a bit of flint in our soil. I also need to deal with the soil pipe that will become defunct and is in the way. The GDN want 0.5m depth minimum, and 0.7m to allow for a bend at the meter end. Seems to be a "do as I say not as I do" company, since this is their work, they renewed the gas line by inserting an MDPE pipe inside the existing steel pipe, the tail they've added to the meter is scarily close the surface, lucky I didn't cut much closer to the meter... -
By BiTurbo228 · Posted
There's a chappy on YouTube who was putting a Saab turbo engine in one of these (he already has one in a Scimitar and a Commer camper van!). I don't think he posts videos anymore, but he still does the projects (too much time spent editing, not enough time spent actually doing the work). -
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By BiTurbo228 · Posted
I've made the commitment to stay away from anything post-2000 🙃 I've already been pissed off enough by the placement of the glow plug module on the BMW M57 in my Jag. It's effectively a bunch of relays in a box that they've bolted to the engine for some godforsaken reason (relays being famously tolerant of heat cycles and constant vibration), underneath the inlet manifold (which you have to remove), and directly underneath the coolant take-off for the radiator so it's a real squeeze to get it out from underneath it. There's vacant real estate to the left and right of the coolant take-off (which would also enable you to get a socket onto it without removing the intake)...but no, they had to put it directly underneath. It's psychopathic. -
Ive looked it up - these have been in production since 1966! The van is affectionately known as the Breadloaf, Bukhana, and the ambulance version as Tabletka! Apparently, they were famous in the USSR for being unstoppable in roughn terrain, and very popular, but then so was the Trabant. Also notorious for poor construction and corrosion, so how these have survived i dont know. Mayge i pluck up courage to knock on the door and ask! John
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Ah Thanks. Now sorted. didn’t miss much by the look of it. -
It is you - When they did the change-over it affected any stored log on icons. If you go to the TRR main web page you can log ontp forums there. Or if you go to your Google History and click on a forum link from last week or so. Once into the forum save the address as your new log on book mark. Roger
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