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Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread yup ^^ - can just space the column down with washers in a mk1 too...

Re: Valver Track Car Project Thread can't stand manual racks :D just like to say that a valver rack should be about 3.75 turns lock to lock. also, the gear linkage goes under the subframe, so that bent pipe should be ok

Re: Mk1 Hybrid Project The 197 is a different F4R and its 6sp box won't drop straight into a mk1

Spotted on Saturday at about 10:30am I guess heading north

play in the steering is usually caused by the column, not the rack, and welding that is £10-20 job..

LMG and MKR last 3 letters of the plate, as seems to be the trend amongst on mk1 owners

all fine choices ;)

Re: My mk1 track car blog yay! :D glad that you've decided to continue it :)

mk1s count? :D

nice one! :D http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2996287806150005582&hl=en ;) I've removed an engine at night too (in the rain :/).... but i noobed up and forgot to disconnect the gear linkage! :D - certainly not fun!!

nice cars/garage combo! :D

Re: Mk1 Hybrid Project valvers make you earn the right to drive em! :D

i know what you're talking about... but as i've been tensioning it wrong and was just trying the new method, i didn't want to over do anything luckily i've left the car in bits so i can hopefully just tighten it up some more! :D

maybe i'm just 95% of the way to tensioning it properly... hence the notches have not aligned means i've been running the cambelt super-lose all these miles :o

nut is loose, yeh and the leg is in the slot i'll swap the tensioner over for a spare i've got how much play is meant to be in the cambelt eventually? I've got a couple mm play between the 2 cam pulleys

I have the manual - but I'm just getting confused cause those 2 marks arent lining up! cambelt must need to be tensioned some more i guess

do you move it by rotating the hex hole clockwise a few times? how can a tensioner be causing this much pain!!

which arrow? :o (tool arrived yesterday btw lol)

i have the notch in the cutout, yeh but the 'middle' plate seems to be stuck on the lower plate, meaning I can't align B&C I can align A (using the hex hole) to B (the raised triangle) -or- to C which is the little cut out on the 'middle' plate A-B aligned: A-C aligned:

that's how i've got it now, but that only means A and C are aligned

b&c?! they seem to be constant wrt each other

I've been trying to do the timing on my F4R, but I get the feeling the belt is too loose :dapprove: - every time I remove the cam locking tools, the cams rotate against each other and the timing goes! :( - I rotate the cambelt over a few times to distribute the tension as well got me...

Re: Mk1 Hybrid Project ermm, trying to remember the phrasing they used. something along the lines of 'all clios except v6' - dont recall them saying anything about sports. if you've got some valver ones laying around i'd compare them, they're probably the same?

Re: Mk1 Hybrid Project R42406 BALL JOINT-LOWER

Re: Mk1 Hybrid Project not true, I bought brand new ball joints on their own *goes to dig out reciept*

Re: My mk1 track car blog its not - it's a slaguna of fail don't do it :( :(

I thought flywheels only needed skimming when fitting paddle clutches... certainly i've never skimmed one... juddering when pulling away could be the clutch release bearing...but if the car is idling bad i'd sort that first as changing the clutch release bearing is 99% the same as changing a...

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looking good! :)

wouldnt work, all mk1 boxes have a mechanical speedo output