Practically Classics Forum

The Maestro marathon was the most entertaining thing I've seen in PC for quite some years.
More feats of endurance involving similarly under rated, "bread & butter" old tin please.

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The scrappage scheme was bound to have an effect, but surely it has consolidated or even increased values of available cars since demand is now further from supply? :? As others already suggested; values of cars in really good condition are stronger than ever. Nasty old piles of rust are worth more ...

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Powertrack brakes should be able to identify the cylinders, they'll be old stock but they always send a fresh seal kit out if requested with o/s brake parts and have yet to supply me with anything whose bore required work prior to use, so don't let the o/s idea put you off.

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rich. wrote:we don't pay road tax over here....

Yay!

Paul240480 wrote:Here in France we pay a one off tax when we first register our cars . That's it for as long as you own the car.....

Boo!

Seems they get you one way or the other then. Maybe I'll stay in the UK.

This suggests to me that the adjusters need to be taken up manually to the point where they're actually keeping the shoes close enough to the drums to be effective. It makes next to no difference that the adjusters will come up with the pedal applied, but that won't get them all the way up. Well don...

Simple way to eliminate those, try with the parking brake applied. Better yet, take the drums off and adjust the shoes up, I seem to remember that the "self" adjusters :lol: on these, as was the case with most similar animals, didn't self adjust and always required a fair bit of travel to be taken o...

TerryG wrote:

Paul240480 wrote: 5) Exhaust - rusty & suspected that the baffles had collapsed inside the silencer - explaining it being a tad 'throaty' when revved.

Is that a bad thing?

+1.

That IL five has a lovely note so, unless the baffles are actually rattling, perhaps it's best left alone?

That'll buff out.