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Amazingly realistic, too many strange errors to mention ! Love the new crankshaft design Bob

Hi Paul I was reporting what the National Grid engineers had told me. They had to measure the cross section and material (copper) of the incoming supply to the house. With copper we were ok for the incoming fuse to be increased from 60 to 80 amp. If the supply cable had been based on aluminium I was told they would not have been able to increase the fuse. As for charging an ev they said the overhead cables to the village would need to be upgraded. The system is quite old and we often have power cuts. There are only a couple of houses with ev chargers in the village. Everyone else drives petrol or diesel I really don't know what to believe from media hype about the pros and cons of ev's. Quite happy to run my old ICE vehicles including the TR. Easy to fix. My local garage hates working on ev's because of the safety issues. They also hate those cars with proximity sensors that apply the brakes when they try to get the cars onto the ramps but that is another story. Keith

What year is your TR? Be aware that the angle of the water return inlet changed over the years with a corresponding pipe. I believe the aluminum repos only cater to the later models. Another plus to repairing/re-coring if you have an early model...

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Ok l will find someone to repair it thanks Roger Rob

Hi Rob, if you have the standard copper type rad then it may be better to get it repaired as it will cool better than an Ali rad Roger

The radiator l have is leaking Rob

Why do you want an Ali rad? Roger

Hi l have been looking at alloy radiators the pricers seem to vary a lot is there any differance in the cheaper one and the more expensive ones Rob

I came across this on the Tube of You. I had no idea AI was so good (sarc) at car restoration. See how many real oddities and strange errors you can spot.

What a great spot - Many thanks Nick/Steve - will drop him a message

I messaged the office and they looked into it and found there was a technical issue which they escalated to whoever it is that does the web site . This was yesterday. Obviously the boffins have found the issue and certainly I have now received the emails . I’ve been out all day but late this afternoon my email received all the test messages . i did say that others were having the issue too so hopefully it won’t just be mine that was sorted . if I get more I will update you but I know it won’t be til Monday at earliest that I hear anything

Come on Ralf, joking aside! Tell us more, please. Your explanation is a bit angry and "foggy". Very sure we can learn from each other, I give it a try again.... Where is the air in the cooling system on the running engine, if the system is not fully bleeded? Do you think a TR6 cooling system maintained to the workshop manual is fully bleeded? Does the engine in your opinion has heat problems, if not FULLY bleeded? OK, sorry, you blasted several customer engines on you dyno in your workshop because you did not bleed them correctly? What "catastrophic" happend with the cooling system? What damage was on the engine? How do you determine a steam surge in the engine? What rad cap was fitted (7 PSI, 13 PSI)? Ciao, Marco

Mine is set as per the WSM which i think translates to 0-1.5mm toe in.

I set mine to Parallel

Added beans did the trick 🙏🏻

Thanks Michael - that definitely helps! Good old Elin! His seemed to come out very easily - I shall apply more beans.

Does this video help you? https://youtu.be/bUd6bGdTqho?si=G9BDiYwBhJ0F0BcN

On my i phone the Password Reset button didnt work( and still doesn’t!) However on my laptop everything worked as expected ….strange ! Problem sort of sorted !

Electric cars do use antifreeze. It’s incorporated into the heating and cooling system used to manage battery efficiency when being discharged and charged.

Have used this over many years to clean and proof the mohair hoods on both my TR3A and BMW 325i . Seems to work well and reasonably priced.

Am struggling to extricate the little lip seal for the speedo drive pinion and despite googling and searching the forum have not managed to find help. Any pointers would be appreciated - I’m worried about damaging the housing and creating more problems than I solve… Thanks Steve

I did the quick search on the forum to remind me of this previous thread where EVs were mentioned

Thanks Rod and Rob. Got there eventually. That initial box could be better highlighted. Voucher wouldn't download anywhere sensibly on the iPhone (unlike the old system that put it into Documents) so took a screenshot. Hope it's worth it! Miles

Keith, On a forum search I found this thread in which one comment on charger throttling gives an answer to your situation. There’s much else in that thread I’d comment on but I’m pretty drained with the rhetoric. I did have a few more videos to post for Rob and did do so but had a problem and when I refreshed the screen my data was cleared so it will have to wait. A 10 second search however found these which I’ve not watched. Note that on the rare occasion that the average person does a long journey, you’d set off from home with a 100% charge for cheapness and convenience. Videos I’ve seen before miss this out