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Wee update. As you may or may not be aware I lunched the Diff bearings on my 820. I had in my garage a KV6 PG1 'box (hen's dentists I know! Thanks Dave!) I bought a PG1 diesel 'box off eBay. Thus a one of a kind CS6DTUTH is born! Diesel on the left, KV6 on the right. https://lh3.googleusercontent.co...

Photos on Wednesday - Collection from near RAF Lakenheath

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SOLD!

Rear ARB is available, as is the front one.

Next stage of Vulturing the Vitesse should see the rear suspension stripped down and the last of the oily bits recovered.

After that I'm leaving it to Steve and Dave to pull the interior out and strip the rest of the shell ready for scrapman.

I like the idea of water jacketing the injector spuds - very neat idea!

Manifold will be warm enough and the TB is far enough away from the injectors for me not to be concerned about the throttle icing up.

I LOVE the fact you had a genuine "My dog hit the BIN not me" moment

Jesus Dave, did Sasha slobber all over your keyboard?

I was thinking of wrapping the intake manifold in coils of 8mm copper pipe to make an "Old-Skool" heated intake manifold.

But that's a thought experiment for another day.

Indeed!

Chuffing eck Dusan you did a proper job there. Sorry to here of the woes with this one. There is someone selling a turbo fastback same colour 95 my down in Newquay for £600 guy is on facebook on the 800 group if you can track it down. Yup, I had briefly considered getting another Vitty however the ...

No photo of bent valves but within the fly cuts on the piston for valve clearance you could see a slight shiny ring on #1 and less obvious on 2&3. It is amazing I did 40 odd miles on such a buggered engine before it puked all of it's oil out of every orifice. Had I hooked up a life support IV of oil...

Goggle Drive? :? :idea: :wink: :D I think it depends what you want it for, onedrive and Google drive seem okay for storage, but they are not easy to create links for this site. Google drive/photos is useless unless like me you were lucky to get in early enough. Google used to have Picasa web albums...

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So a small update. As well as managing to blow up my Vitesse I now have killed the diff bearings in my 820 :oops: Usually it's the Vitesses that eat diff bearings but this time it's the 820's turn. I have a KV6 Torsen equipped manual in the shed already. I have just won a 620 diesel gearbox on eBay ...

Confirmed dead diff bearings today.

Won a PG1 Diesel on eBay for £50 plus postage so I'm sorted.

I might need a boot (fastback) rubber seal , Mine had a slight leak from it , :? so ive sealed it in place with silicone , but haven't tested it against the hose yet or rain The boot seal on this one if FUBAR I'm afraid mate, Scooby Dave did manage to source a seal for a saloon from another make of...

re5rotary wrote:Hi what condition is the rear parcel tray in please? regards Terry

I'll grab a photo for you when I'm next up there pulling bits off.

It's perfectly serviceable but it's starting to fail where the strings attach and on one side of the hinge.