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THE CAPE LANCIA CLUB |
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Located in the beautiful City of Cape Town |
THE LAING GARAGE |
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Cape Lancia Club members can send their members page contributions to our webmaster lanciagarage@telkomsa.net |
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In the Laing Garage you will find Phil and Sheldon actively working on a 'bolt-and-nut' restoration project of a Lancia Fulvia Series I as well as maintaining Sheldons Red S2 1300 and Phil's blue S2 1600 Well the timing chain tensioner saga is not an easy one to solve. Unfortunately, the person who rebuilt the 1600HF motor, mistakenly (I think) made up a tensioner combining parts from a 1300 and a 1600 and some creative engineering. On discussing my problems with Peter Gerrish in the Uk, ( a long story on its own), He has kindly sold me the last 1600HF tensioner shoe he has and I am awaiting a response from Omicron as well as from Tony Seiler as to the other parts. If anyone wants info on timing chain tensioners, talk to me, I have learned a lot. Whilst waiting for parts, I decided to clean the engine bay up a bit. The water pump was off, so I decided to sandblast it. Hmmmm.... well the cover plate had coroded from the inside and so it didn't take much sandblasting to blow a hole right through the cover. Well most of you know how temperamental the water pumps are, frozen alan key bolts etc. So out with the grinder, lots of soaking in brake fluid, and hopefully I will post pics in the next few days of the newly restored pump. Anyway, I have spent much time cleaning and sandblasting other components, tidying up wiring and generally making sure the engine bay looks really good......this all whilst spending time on organising the barn. 26 December 2008 The Christmas present for the 1600HF continues........ The source of the rattling noise was an extremely badly worn timing chain tensioner. So, off with the waterpump, off with the inlet camshaft,out with the radiator and the damaged part is ready and waiting for a specialised moulding shop to open on Monday for resurfacing. Whilst I was at it, the timing chain dropped into the sump, so I may as well check out the bigends whilst I am busy down there. More to follow soon.
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Contact Jim Baldwin (Chairman) - Phone 082 622 8677 - email jimb@ananzi.co.za - capelancia@gmail.com |
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