Recent content by Vern Klukas

A how to. Yours Vern

Another example of the US/British language divide. Yours Vern

The white valve is just pushed into the rubber ring there, it will come out without too much effort by prying with a tool between the white flange and the rubber ring. Once you have it out, you can twirst the valve to loosen it in the rubber hose, then pull it out. The comment about needing...

Over the years I’ve only seen two cases of the bonnet blowing open on a P6. Both cases it was on the safety hook, not properly closed. In one case the nose of the car had been damaged and straightened out and the safety hook barely hooked. The other one was a mystery. I’ve driven many different...

But by my math the tire centerline should be nearly the same if the 5.5 rim’s offset is 7.5 mm greater than the 5 inch rim. Certainly not 9 mm different (.5” = 12.7 mm, divide by two = 6.35 mm, while the actual 5.5" offset is 7.5 mm more than the 5” wheel, just over a mm more.). Yours Vern

5/16 UNC Yours Vern

By the way, one thing to look for is that the bolt is the right length. The two there, going throught the engine stay, should be 7/8”. The other two are 3/4”. It’s possible to install those backwards, which makes it easier to strip the thread. Yours Vern

If the metric bolt tap drill is roughly the same size as a helicoil I think it’s a toss up. If the metric is significantly larger, that would favour the helicoil. Personally, I’d helicoil it so I could retain the original bolt, they don't make them that good anymore. Yours Vern

The main symptom of a loose flange nut is an erratic speedo that lags badly under acceleration. For future reference. Yours Vern

The selector “finger” is available, if it’s the type just held on with a roll pin. I’m not sure about the earlier style with a bolt, but a Mk2 car shouldn;t have that style. Yours Vern

On the other hand, now that the sediment is gone & you have a plan to avoid future build up, why bother? That’s basically why I’m not sure I have a example to show you, lol. Yours Vern

The neatest installation (I think) is the metal & glass cleanable type of filter spliced into the plastic line that runs from the pump to carbs, placing the filter just to the right of where the fuel line is clipped to the hoisting bracket. The filter nipples are (assuming the same part) sized...

Please tell us a bit more about the car, just becasue we like to hear about any of the early cars that show up. As for a parts catalog, my earliest that covers the single carb cars is part number 606128 from April 1969. It does cover the earliest cars, but in many cases the part numbers are for...

As far as the chrome vs black rings, my understanding is the 65 up to early 66 cars had the chrome, and the black rings started in 66 through the rest of Series 1 production. Yours Vern

I love a good expert, particularly when they expert for free. Yours Vern