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Soldered up and fitted a new throttle cable, after discovering that the existing one had completely seized - a strand of the cable had broken and completely unwound itself inside the sheath.

Paddy

This topic contains photos of the bush extractor/insertor that I made, many years ago when I had a functioning lathe.

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One pic from the list:

Today I shall be mostly getting a migraine

Graeme,
Glad to see you bought one. I posted the other year after helping them get the dims right for our cars.
Quite interesting watching how much camber change there is from bump to droop. I know it makes it harder watching two clocks but once you get set up at ride height with the clock plungers mid postion you get to see everything as you go up and down.
Good luck. Did you see the little clevis i made bolted to a socket for consistent jacking without slipping and damaging wishbone paint. Cheers Mike

Replaced points, condenser, rotor, distributor cap, coil and shortened the spark plug wires in my S2. Then adjusted the timing. Purrs like a kitten.

miked wrote:Graeme,
Glad to see you bought one. I posted the other year after helping them get the dims right for our cars.
Quite interesting watching how much camber change there is from bump to droop. I know it makes it harder watching two clocks but once you get set up at ride height with the clock plungers mid postion you get to see everything as you go up and down.
Good luck. Did you see the little clevis i made bolted to a socket for consistent jacking without slipping and damaging wishbone paint. Cheers Mike

It's a great piece of kit. I'm jacking on a wooden stick to the hub so it pivots with the camber changes.
The hub plate is drilled for 26R hub and the 5 pin hub.

Graeme, Mike,
Who produces this adaptor and where is it available?
Cheers
V

V, if you you google VMEP bump gauge you will find the company VMEP.
Mike

I watched the you tube video and learned how easy it should be to install the wiper motor. That's my next project on the S2 SE.

Also painted the engine covers base coat for the Elise. Red. Tomorrow will be to do the green, yellow and silver.

Frank

Took my Lotus 46, the S1 Europa for a run with the wife !
It's set up more for hillclimbs than the road - so no heater or carpets.
Good fun
Kevin

Finished replacing my motor mounts, with visible results:

Pulled the engine for a reason(s)

Going back to an aluminum fly wheel (but not race weight and minus the tilton clutch)- also going back to an airbox -
more to follow.

Who made the air box?

V ,

It's the TTR Air-Box - its much larger at the back vs the stock item . Inlet is also larger ( 4.0 vs 3.5" ) .

Thank you, it looks much larger than one I bought years ago from TTR.

V