Austin Ten Drivers Club

I agree with Gary, I just stone off any deep depression in the adjusting screw on rebuilding an engine from scratch. I have seen no wear after the engine has done a further reasonable mileage. Wear occurs after perhaps 100,000 miles? Perhaps I am not yet convinced that the originals were case harden...

Hi Gary, Should be no problem but you probably have got to remove the adjusting screw first. The critical distance after insertion is from the bottom of the guide to the top of the tappet bush. (If you drive the guide too far you will not be able to insert the tappet at some later date without remov...

Hi Gary, For the early engines I have worked on about a 1/16" min seat for inlet valves (about 60 thou) and about 3/32" for the exhaust seats. I open the ports to reflect this size (just over1.1" inlet bore, 1" exhaust) which improves the engine breathing and has not given me any problems - last eng...

Engines are IG then a number. Yours would be about June/July 1935? From memory, the date of casting is on offside of block below distributor ( e g 26.6.5).

Hi Bill,
Absolutely right. I am opposite to Rod, my fault. Went to garage and looked at my stock - all marked 'top' on the smooth side.
Sorry everyone,
Phil

Hi Gary, I agree with Rod. Smooth side up for the gasket. From my experience I had to grind the valves in every 2500 miles when using leaded ( before 2000 in UK) but with unleaded they last 25,000 miles - and I only did them then because the crank broke. No seat recession at all and no carbon build-...

According to all repair manuals/ how to recondition gearboxes and clutch, you 'need' lots of special tools. I have never had or used any in doing about 6 gearboxes over many years. Hope you find a CX500-13. I have not seen one yet.

Hi Mark, Have emailed you with the relevant sheets on the gearbox and clutch reconditioning. The most common reason for oil getting on the clutch is overfilling the gearbox. 2pints for the prewar gearbox is much too much. Austins perpetuated an error they made about 1933/4. This has been covered in ...

Hi Mark, There is a quick fix I have used many times. Remove the inspection plate, handbrake on, run the engine, depress clutch, put it into gear and pour about 2pints of petrol slowly into the inspection hole whilst working the clutch so it starts to bite quite hard then release. Keep doing it. Col...