Hi everyone, I have gone through all forum posts regarding stamped (not the plate mounted in the engine bay) VIN number locations on the car and know that the windscreen rain channel should show the VIN, with the right hand bonnet channel showing a part number. The problem I have is that the origina...

Hi Huib, Thanks for the recommendation, I have taken the head off and now busy cleaning and inspecting everything, so I'll take a look at the clearance you mention. When removing the head, and then the camshafts on the bench, I noticed a rocker arm was contacting the valve pushrod even with the adju...

Hi, I had a similar issue with mine (more than the normal smell for old cars). The gearbox had a small leak on the left hand drive shaft seal which drips onto the exhaust, this gets quite smoky and if the cabin intake vent is missing the seal against the bonnet this smoke/smell comes straight into t...

A follow up after tinkering today. I decided that a compression test might help with the diagnosis, so got the car up to temperature and upon removing the spark plug for cylinder 1 I saw a little bit of coolant on top of the piston. So I think I have my answer, the cylinder head needs to come off. T...

Hi everyone, I have been doing some work getting the car running well, and after some difficulty with the carbs and discovering a missing exhaust gasket, I have got the spark plugs showing healthy combustion and fitted a new gasket so everything was running well and the car really driving nicely. Af...