valve clearances and cylinder head nuts - hot or cold??

[Muttley]

You remember that too eh

[1958 harry]

[bambi mk 1]

Bet that was an oily mess

Not that bad if you cut the centre out of another rocker cover and bolted it on Now wheres me rose tinted glasses

[baconsdozen]

The idea with the Vauxhalls was to get them ticking over as slow as possible,they didn't spray much oil about anyway. Vauxhall used to supply a really long strip of steel the correct thickness when it got mangled you just cut the end off.

[Muttley]

Them were the days eh

[whitemice]

i had one of these, the old Firenza, it was a great motor with no rot, went round Scotland Devon everywhere it was gold with a vinyl roof, pretty rare nowadays i have not seen one for years, also had a black Cresta in the 70's that thing was mental hammeriong up and down the A15 and was great for getting loads of people in.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vauxh ... JhuaM%253A


It's weird but then all my motors cost 90 quid even my first and second ss yamaha and suzuki stinger motorbikes were 90 quid, ford cortina mk1 £90, corsair x 2 £90, viva £90, cresta £90, escort mk2 £90, 70's eh, if i had them now i'd be loaded after floggin' em and they were all good nick with no rot

[baconsdozen]

Lots of cars you could buy for £90 years ago would be worth fortunes now. Stuff you can buy for say a grand now will eventually be worth fortunes (if you live long enough).

[mavis cruet]

cheers for all that folks - ill get mi feeler gauges.......

[whitemice]

Lots of cars you could buy for £90 years ago would be worth fortunes now. Stuff you can buy for say a grand now will eventually be worth fortunes (if you live long enough).

yep, 'tis bonkers, my first tranny was a v4 2l mk1 ex- rounds van )groceries, etc.) with basically a box on the back with windows in it, it was red and black hand painted and i did a couple of years at Stonehenge free festivals etc. in it as a tripped out hippy, cost me 4 ounce of good leb, scored the van in the dole queue in Hackney, red and black were/are the colours of invisibility which is odd as blaCK like white AIN'T A COLOUR, i did lose it a few times though?????????????? these days i'm just an anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary though.