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Yes, that's what I did. It came off very easily by removing damper bolts and wiggling forwards off the trunnion - the damper came through the slot in the wing with no trouble. No way could I pull the trunnion off backwards!

General advice is to support car on axle stands, jack up suspension arm, knock back tab washer at rear of top link pin and remove said nut,washers and rear bush, then "slide top trunnion off pin". This I could not do as not enough movement in kingpin/trunnion. I found the answer to be remo...

They are funny things. My speedo needle reads accurately up to about 40mph and then starts to oscillate. By 60mph it oscillates wildly between 40 and 80mph on the dial! Crazy!

Thanks for your replies. No it is not an exhaust leak. When I said a cross between buzzing and hissing, it is nearer to buzzing - or even a very light scraping. Very difficult noise to describe. I will try the take off fanbelt and see what happens (apart from overheat!) Wondering if waterpump, dynam...

I have a mysterious new noise! It is connected to the engine but strangely doesn't rise in pitch as the engine runs faster, only slightly louder, but is most audible around 40mph (higher speeds the engine noise itself drowns it out) and disappears at tickover. Very hard noise to describe - not bangi...

And don't tighten the nuts so hard they strip off their threads! I did that once when I couldn't get a seal - turned out it was a distorted pipe flange when I looked closely and all was OK again after I reformed it with a pair of pliers (and got a new nut). There's a right way and a wrong way to do ...

Well, I have gone through the procedure a couple of times now and the oil flushing through looks a lot cleaner now and all seems very good on the road

Should do the rear ones, I guess. But not while this great weather lasts - off to the beach for me! thanks for all your help.

No, that wasn't all that was in it....as I said, I could see the oil level in the damper and it wasn't going down, bounce as I might. You would think there was some sort of blockage. I did try blowing through the top with a piece of heater hose but no joy. I will try the syringe idea though. At wors...

Well, this didn't seem to work for me. I removed both plugs and the valve assembly from the bottom and bounced - and all that came out was a dessert spoon's worth of oil. So I bounced and bounced and bounced - Tigger himself could not have bounced more - but nothing. I could see the level of oil in ...

Coolio! Thanks Declan. That's just what I needed to see.

Earlier in this post someone said "When you do the Dampers,Front or rear, be aware of a spring inside the Damper,where the valve assembly comes out,it needs to come out" Is all this stuff (spring, valve assembly) likely to come out in pieces so you don't know how to put it back together ag...

A Katy - well, it must have been the manifold leak then!
Thanks,

Pete

Well I did all that and still not quite right...............until I noticed two things: 1. distributer slightly loose in the engine - so I tightened up the two bolts 2. exhaust manifold missing one stud, washer and bolt causing slight exhaust leak - so I whipped the missing parts off an old 803cc en...

Twice I have put on a new exhaust and both times it lost its burble - for a while, then unaccountably came back. No, I can't explain.

But there is a way to 'mate' the 803 and 948 gearboxes to have a 948 gearbox without cutting up the floor. There must be a thread on here that says how. Mine was done that way but a friend of a friend did it for me so I can't advise further.

12 thou? I thought it was 15 thou? It is a 948 engine.............

OK thanks, but I wonder if you can specifically address my original question about whether if timing is adjusted when the points are not set quite right and the points subsequently set properly, will the timing needs re-adjustment? I understand altering the points gap does alter the timing.

Pete

Many thanks for your reply. Just a couple of questions: 1. What sort of oil would you use in the carb damper? Some people say engine oil, others three-in-one. 2. When advancing/retarding the ignition timing would you use the micrometer adjustment or loosen and turn the distributer? Thank you for you...

Hello. Advice needed please. My car runs OK but spits and pops a bit when going downhill at certain speeds with the foot off the accelerator. It has also become a bit thirsty on petrol and - unless I am imagining this - the familiar Morris burble is a little harsh sounding. Not quite so much pull go...