863 EMD Restoration

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The only 'babes ' I drive around now are the grandchildren. They don't seem to notice that I am old and quite unattractive.
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Re: 863 EMD Restoration

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SteveClem wrote:The only 'babes ' I drive around now are the grandchildren. They don't seem to notice that I am old and quite unattractive.
:rol:
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Re: 863 EMD Restoration

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Ran EMD yesterday and the Zenith Carb has developed a leak. I knew about this a while ago bit it was slight now it was getting too much
Took off the float chamber the two screws and noticed the cork gasket I had made, which I thought was the answer to the fuel leaks and air leaks into the carb,had perished and came off in crumbs as I rubbed it off with my fingers SEE PHOTO.
The float chamber also had some fine "carp" in there which you can see and I cleaned it out. i TOOK OFF THE EMULSION BLOCK PIECE and I made a new gasket out of my fairly thick gasket card material, (NOT CORK) fitted that with some gasket blue sealant and some liberally around the chamber mating face to the main carb body to prevent air leakage into the venturi and refitted to the carb
May road test tomorrow

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hope you get it sorted :thumbs:
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Re: 863 EMD Restoration

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Should be ok now Nick! Will run it tomorrow if weathers not too bad :thumbs:

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John, if that blue sealant is the one I think it is it will not stand up to fuel for long.

You need a setting sealant like the old Hermetite brown stuff.
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Dave Clark wrote:John, if that blue sealant is the one I think it is it will not stand up to fuel for long.

You need a setting sealant like the old Hermetite brown stuff.
Ohhh :shock: didnt realise, however Ive used a thin smidging on the faces to assist but fingers crossed the new gasket will sort it
Have used the sealant in a larger amount as a an attempt to make up the likely difference of the mating faces of float chamber to the main carb body rather tham a sealant gainst fuel leakages

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Re: 863 EMD Restoration

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Took EMD out again today and on a dual carriageway acording to the speedo it was 70mph. It was wavering at 65 to 67 ish but when increasing speed was firm against the 70mph max on the clock. Its fairly accurate at at around 40 mph I know that, but does anyone have an opinion of what the speed would have probably been rather than 70,....or was it 70mph?

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Hi John,
Good going! Main factors to consider are speedo head, diff ratio and tyre size (taking into account wear too). Easiest way is to instead just watch the speed on a sat nav.
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Chris T wrote:Hi John,
Good going! Main factors to consider are speedo head, diff ratio and tyre size (taking into account wear too). Easiest way is to instead just watch the speed on a sat nav.
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Yeah Chris

Didnt have it with me but will do at some point, just fishing for any general thoughts

Thanks

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Came to adjust the brakes on EMD tonight and I have the moggy fronts set up. One of the snail cam screw heads just broke off just by twisting with the screwdriver through the small access holes. No mean torque by any length. This is the standard of quality we have to endure. These were new on the renovation and guess Ive only adjusted them twice before

Carp! :shock:

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Re: 863 EMD Restoration

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As with so many reproduced parts it is often better to try to get old used ones in reasonable condition.

These items at least are OK to use secondhand.
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It's not just classics this happens to. I replaced the rear discs on my daughter's Peugeot 206CC a couple of years ago and the disc-to-hub mounting screws were missing. These are short countersunk philips screws. I know you don't really need these as the wheel holds them on, but I do like to do the job properly. So I bought a new set of 4 from Peugeot. First one I screwed in snapped off leaving the thread jammed in the hub! Second one was ok. Same happened on the other side although it was the 2nd one I fitted! So unless the factory used too different threads (unlikely) the quality of the screws was dubious to say the least.
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Dave Clark wrote:As with so many reproduced parts it is often better to try to get old used ones in reasonable condition.

These items at least are OK to use secondhand.
:thumbs: :iagree:
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Re: 863 EMD Restoration

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Hi John

If you're desperate and and they will fit I have a few Mk 1 A40 Farina ones you can have.

Give me a call 079077 057111, but I', off to Hibalstow about 10am tomorrow.

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