rotoflex
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Are you using CDSE carbs? Look at the face to see if there's an additional hole. My CDSE's are of that type, & they require those spacers & gaskets with the slot running from the center opening. They allow the additional hole to share the same atmosphere as the butterflies. They won't function properly with the gaskets & spacers without the oblong slot running from the center hole. Sorry, can't provide photos & excerpts from manuals, I'm confined with a wrecked ankle.
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I used no sealant on the head gasket & Permatex Aviation gasket sealant on everything else. Non-leaky for about 30 years!
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I agree, get some of the later springy metal interconnectors from someone like Andrew Turner.
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Ooooo, that looks nice!
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If you're having trouble with overheating in your Mk2 & are just haunted by evil spirits after trying almost everything, let me assure you that if you fabricate a fan shroud for your car, it will suck the heat out of the rad so hard you will wonder why you hadn't done it first. I went almost forever with the worst overheating problem ever driving a Jaguar XK140 in coastal Alabama - tiny grille opening, small honeycomb type radiator, big engine, etc -- and it was just monstrous. Shrouding the rad to the grille doesn't do much. An additional electric fan in front was almost no effect. I researched & talked with lots of folks, & they kept coming back to telling me to just fabricate a fan shroud from aluminum. I finally mocked it up in cardboard, cut it from aluminum cookie sheet, & BAM, problem solved. Notice that ALL modern cars have fan shrouds, & shrouds from the radiator to the grille are not very common.
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My car was 3 years old when I got it, & had the standard radiator. It even had air conditioning from the dealership. At some point, the cardboard shroud in front and at the top of the radiator was lost, but still the car had no overheating problems driving in the heat & great humidity along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. That included city traffic stopping & going up & down the mountain in Birmingham, Alabama. All my overheating issues were the result of radiator sludge (send the radiator to be boiled out & painted), thermostats giving up, & head gasket failures. I think there has often been trouble traced to people running the cars without thermostats.
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Belated happy birthday, Docman! I promise you, that bit of seal is straight from British Leyland: I ordered it when I had the car painted back in the late 70s or so & never put it on. I took it out of the plastic bag with the BL logo & part number back when to uncurl it, sorry! I can't look it up now, but maybe the Mk3 seal was different from the earlier cars?
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Belated happy birthday, Docman! I promise you, that bit of seal is straight from British Leyland: I ordered it when I had the car painted back in the late 70s or so & never put it on. I took it out of the plastic bag with the BL logo & part number back when to uncurl it, sorry! I can't look it up now, but maybe the Mk3 seal was different from the earlier cars?
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That photo of the seal came from me: I had meant to send a small section of the seal to Bill at Rarebits, but I've moved & cannot find it right now. I'll keep looking.
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That photo of the seal came from me: I had meant to send a small section of the seal to Bill at Rarebits, but I've moved & cannot find it right now. I'll keep looking.
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I wonder if something has fallen off & is rattling around inside the transmisson bell housing. Like maybe a piece of the clutch.
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Is the conventional wisdom not that the 6-3-1 configuration is superior for performance over the 6-2-1? The Maniflow system appears to be 6-2-1.
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Very cool. So you use them with the original rod-type accelerator linkage?
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For which version of GT6?