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I am of the 'leave well enough alone" school, and so would advise against removing and replacing the commutator end bush. The internal bore of the housing will also end up being chromed, reducing its diameter, which will then give problems either pressing the bush back in, or make the bush an ...

Thus saith the EK shop manual: "113 flywheel, 9 pinion". Flywheel theoretical pitch diameter: 11.3"
Thus saith the EH shop manual: "137 flywheel, 9 pinion". Flywheel theoretical pitch diameter: 11.417"

Smaller teeth and more of them on the red flywheel, so a slight increase in the pitch diameter of ...

108? I thought 119.

Red motor flywheels have a different number of teeth from their grey predecessors, and hence the starter pinion does too. I believe the grey pinion assembly slides straight onto the armature splines of early Bosch red motor starters, but I've not seen it done.

(The EH 149 starter motor is a special ...

Harv,

EH 179, all HD, probably HR too. Brushes are still easy to get: BSX43. I can try to make the not so much one go . . .

Rob

Craig,

Only just noticed your post about vibration damper rubbers.

Yes. The pair that I sent you are examples of the ones I use in reconditioning harmonic balancers. I reverse-engineered the rivets and had a batch made, and then had a peening fixture made up. It places the whole assembly under ...

I am most impressed, by the ingenuity of the engineering solutions and the style and beauty of the boat . . .

Rob

Steve,

I think ribbed brake drums were a bit of a lottery. The ex-family EK sedan had ribbed drums both front and rear, but I've seen cars with two ribbed and two plain or even all four plain. Maybe plain drums were more an FB thing. Dunno.

EJ/EH drums are a straight swap for FB/EK drums, and you ...

. . . but it's what's in the background that's caught my eye, with which I spy -

- a Repco head
- a right-angle magneto drive
- steel main bearing caps
- a most clever full-flow oil filter conversion using the fuel pump flange for mounting and the existing hole in the crankcase to get the oil in ...

(off topic)

- and the Opel Diplomat is very reminiscent of the Brougham in its rear-end styling. Plus the Diplomat had a 327 . . .

Rob

(piping up)

The "+" cover, the one without the seal, is the later one. In the later engines some of the 1/4" screws were enlarged to 5/16". The front main bearing cap, front engine plate and timing cover were modified to suit. The aim was to improve sealing of the front engine plate to the ...

Steve,

Executive summary: Don't take the cylinder head off yet. Do all you can to fix the miss at idle and the hard starting first.

- The coffee-coloured foam is rusty sludge. Go to Bunnings and buy a two-kilo bottle of Diggers Rust and Stain Remover (warning: oxalic acid powder. Poisonous, very ...

The FB sedan is another example of the most popular body style from the Nasco Rural Products Division: the Shooting Landau.

I know of one at Alectown. Roof apart, it's a straight, rust-free body.

Rob

Clay,

If you're scrubbing out the outside of both front tyres, it means too much toe-in. You mentioned 4 mm toe-in: that'd do it.
You might have to set the camber closer to zero in order to get more caster on the driver's side without the upper control arm touching the subframe. It's all a ...

Clay,

In my experience, the cause of tyre wear like you've shown here, is the car pulling to one side (to the left in your case). You have to provide steering input to make the car steer straight, leading to excessive slip angle and the characteristic "feathering" at the outside of the left front ...