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In the rare chances I've got my '69 3500 Auto out this summer, I've had a couple of odd noises I think from the gearbox. The first time it happened was parking up on a moderately steep incline. I was backing the car up when I got a loud noise from what I think was the gearbox. It sounded...

Hi all, Haven't been around for a while, a new arrival to the family has kept the ol' v8 garaged and the cold weather has kept it in there. Having got a new MOT, my fantastic mechanic pointed out that the water pump doesn't sound good. My ear and trusty broom handle on the casing only...

Hi all, I've got a slightly cooking V8 and it's left me scratching my head. Just want to run this past you... Been taking the P6 out and as usual at some point, you have to give it some welly :D The car and I enjoy this (the wife likes to white her knuckles on the seats) but lately, speed...

The chariot is due it's MOT next month and bar a nearside front bearing squeaking, I'm not expecting major issues. So doing the MOT prep with all the service items, I checked the ATF. The gearbox is a Borg Warner 35 mated to a V8 Series 1. It's gone a purple colour definitely not the cherry...

Hi, it seems that my brake pressure switch has given up the ghost on me. It seems there's a large nut at the bottom of the junction, is this what I need to go for to replace the switch? There looks like a cut O-ring too right before the switch terminals. It looks a tight fit as part of the...

I left the P6 for a couple of weeks and thought I should take it out for a quick spin. Anyway, it simply wouldn't turn over today, worse than normal in this damp weather, ran the starter motor for a while, rest it for a few seconds, then again, rest it, I think something went 'clunk' when I let...

Went out on Boxing Day mainly as I don't like leaving the P6 in the garage ;) The roads were going to be quiet and also dry :) So I had a quick blast to a friend's house to check on their cats a few miles away so I made that P6-o'clock. On the way home, I wondered why everyone was backing off...

Just a quick query really, I replaced the dizzy cap, rotor arm and condenser for a lumpy ignition recently and I think it's uncovered a few nasties. The car was never really that good coming off the choke early but recently it's had a nasty habit of stalling at idle off the choke especially...

I've trawled through the mine of information on here which is full of very useful nuggets. However, my P6 needs perhaps it's most radical work to date yet (for me). The rear suspension needs an overhaul. The rear springs are getting very soft, almost nauseous when I hit a dip. Looking at the...

I've had a recurrent problem with starting the car from cold... normally after a week or more in the garage unused (certainly 91p/litre Optimax is not encouraging it's use). It would start and then the idle would slowly die after a minute or so. I checked the dashpots first and sure enough...

On picking up some service items, I was told of a secondary air filter, a small white pot, very similar to the fuel filter. So I bought one along with a couple of new flame traps. I didn't think anything of it, I knew the primary air filter is immaculate, also, I had no idea what on earth it...

During the last few weekends, I'd been getting the car ready for its MOT and one persistent problem I've had was a terrible shunt when the autobox was going through the gears. It was especially bad when stationary and when the engine was warm. Checking the ATF, it wasn't its usual TQF...

During the last few weekends, I'd been getting the car ready for its MOT and one persistent problem I've had was a terrible shunt when the autobox was going through the gears. It was especially bad when stationary and when the engine was warm. Checking the ATF, it wasn't its usual TQF...

During the last few weekends, I'd been getting the car ready for its MOT and one persistent problem I've had was a terrible shunt when the autobox was going through the gears. It was especially bad when stationary and when the engine was warm. Checking the ATF, it wasn't its usual TQF...

Just as I was readying the car for its MOT as well..... On the dash, the brake light warning keeps flicking on for a while and then off. It seems random, the brakes not being applied, sometimes being applied and sometimes when I'm just encountering some rough road or an incline, decline or...

Just thought I'd let you guys know, I've tracked down an excellent bodyshop in the Berks/Bucks/West London area. My P6 needed the rear quarters and roof doing (it had gone very flat) and a front wing (dropping a fuel pump on it does it no good). Also, it was a bit two-tone, the lower panels...

This is something really bothering me. Under normal driving, not a peep from the n/s front. However, from stationary under 'enthuastic lift off' conditions and there is a 'GRRRR-rrrrrr' that is very loud vibrating sound coming from the front n/s that gets quieter and then disappears once...

I'd sourced the problem with my dead speedo to a broken angle drive (the cable wound lug at the gearbox end had frayed to disintegration). On replacing the drive, in a fiddly operation needing a ten year old's hand in the trans tunnel hole rather than my ham fists, I screwed the lot together...

This is a bit long as I'm a bit foxed by this. So I lost my fuel starvation cherry last Friday and I ran the battery down trying to restart it. So feeling a total idiot I had to call recovery. Ok, driving on a sweltering day (it was 90F) and getting stuck in traffic for 10 minutes didn't...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here. I've got a '69 3500 Auto and have been enjoying the ownership of it for the last couple of months after a bit of a break from P6 ownership. However, it has developed a strange phenomona of leaving a puddle of ATF in the crossmember under the...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here. I've got a '69 3500 Auto and have been enjoying the ownership of it for the last couple of months after a bit of a break from P6 ownership. However, it has developed a strange phenomona of leaving a puddle of ATF in the crossmember under the...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here. I've got a '69 3500 Auto and have been enjoying the ownership of it for the last couple of months after a bit of a break from P6 ownership. However, it has developed a strange phenomona of leaving a puddle of ATF in the crossmember under the...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here. I've got a '69 3500 Auto and have been enjoying the ownership of it for the last couple of months after a bit of a break from P6 ownership. However, it has developed a strange phenomona of leaving a puddle of ATF in the crossmember under the...