Austin Ten Drivers Club

Further progress.... All valves are now in and gapped. New head gasket lightly greased with copper grease and ready for the head. Then thought I would check the head with a steel straight edge for flatness first and discovered I have a slightly banana shaped head. Both ends , front and rear show lig...

Hi All, as promised a quick update. New Valve guides arrived. The inserted end of the new guides looked quite sharp and I thought they may get stuck going in with the drift so I mounted each in my lathe and very slightly rounded off the sharpness with a fine file. Then into a zip lock plastic bag wi...

Bob, in an earlier post I mentioned that I had hand lapped the tappet on an oil stone and decided this would be good enough for the amount of club driving the car will get. But a little niggle formed in my mind so I decided to check how true , or square I had done the job. A local VAR member suggest...

Bob, yes it is fairly easy to wind out the Tappet adjusting bolt. You will need to take out the valves and remove the springs first. Then just loosen the bottom split lock nut and you can finger wind out the tappet bolt. I haven't taken the Cam Followers out yet but advice is to remove each small he...

Thanks for all the replies and advice. The thought did cross my mind to get the re-faced tappets re-tempered.... however this car will not do huge miles just the odd club run so I think I will let them be. I did them by hand on an oil stone, coarse side first then fine side last. took about an hour ...

I tried my new exhaust valves (supplied by our local VAR) in each of the existing old guides and cylinders 3 and 4 are definitely worn more than 1 and 2. I have now punched out all the guides and attempted a measurement and I am sure all are worn more than 5 thou. Anyway I have a new set of guides c...

Thanks Phil and Rod. great advice as always. Phil, I am assuming by " adjusting screw" you mean tappet adjusting screw? I have a suitable drift turned down with a sharp shoulder but I will also turn down a brass collar for it to sit directly on the guide top. My plan is to freeze the guides over nig...

Hi All I am considering whether or not to renew the valve guides whilst I am about to do a three angle cut/grind on the valve seats. The valve guides would need to be replaced before seatcut/grinding. I reported earlier that I thought the Guide wear wasn't enough to bother with renewing them. Howeve...

Many thanks for that Phil and Bill.
Just the advice I was looking for.
Gary
Antipodes VAR

sorry, last post should read " engines they are working on are flat head Ford V8's!!

Gary