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03-05-11, 13:24
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Richie,
Are you fitting new pistons during the rebuild? If so what type are you using...I have to buy a set for mine, it's a 3.9L rather than the eariler spec 3.6L Flathead so requires the 3 3/16th pistons. I've spoken to a company in the US who do new sets with rings, just saving up to by them now! Are you going to fit electronic ignition? I've got a little kit I built to use the points to drive a transister so that they never wear out, made quite a difference on a TR6, Spitfire and 3.5RV8 I tried it on. The plus side being that you don't have to damage any of the original parts and by just moving one wire can return the points to there original operation....I am going to have to solder up a new one as I just remembered that I lent it to a mate and he left it on his Series 3 when he sold it :-)
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03-05-11, 18:17
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using stock pistons i have got new rings for them iam thinking about elec ignition... i vernier'd my crank and pots and found the following
mains: 2.481 B/ends: 2.134 Bores: 3.210 the data plate shows it to be 010 on the mains and b/ends and 030 on the pistons so what that means in old money i dont know hahahaha i think its an early ford unit. i will be putting ARP head studs in for sure having sheared another two today.... luckily my pals easy outs seem to have done the trick but make no bones about it the head studs in mine are like toffee !!!! further enforces in my mind why they should be changed or upgraded when building an engine....
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