First Job On 'Monty' the RRC

I decided to call my new (15 year old!) RRC 'Monty' There is a blip in the power now & again & he has told me it is a very slightly tappety. I think if its bad enough I'll stick a new camshaft in etc. Seems an easy enough job, I'll also swap the tappets & rockers etc. All seems easy enough (It's a LONG time since I did my 381 C&G, as I went on to become an electrical engineer as opposed to Motor Vehicle Technician!) How important is the pre-load on the tappets etc? What else would be required parts wise & is there any other (cheap) job whilst I'm in there? I want to sort the tappets out first, then borrow an ECU to try sort the 'missing a beat' as its already had a new dizzy, new rotor arm, plugs, leads etc. I can get a used ECU for £90 with a 30 day returnable warranty. I'm not suggesting the tappets/cam are causing the blip, but I really would like a nice smooth sounding V8 before I go any further, or am I talking bollocks & there's miles more important things that this???

Some kind of a checklist would be good, is the one on the Rover V8 site (rpi I believe) any good, or anything you chaps know?

Cheers

Nige

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Nige
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On or around Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:00:27 +0100, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

bugger. that wasn't supposed to happen. Highlights the fact that your line-lengths are dodgy though :-)

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Austin Shackles

I'm just a simple poster matey, I use OE as its piss easy to use! Pray tell, what wasn't supposed to happen??

Do you mean sentence lengths or general word wrap type lengths?

I generally use this type of posting method, easy to reply to & easy to read.

Nige

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Nige

what wasn't supposed to

I've just ditched OE in favour of Mozilla. Faster and very similar to use, but not as silly about opening dodgy stuff as OE can be. People at work use it for Usenet as well (and rate it), though I'm sticking with Agent.

Your wrapping lengths seem rather long, and your sig could do with a separator (two dashes and a space). It will then be snipped from replies, so threads don't end up stupid long with loads of repeat sigs.

HTH

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Tim Hobbs

Heard about Mozilla, isnt it a mac based prog? My only reason for using OE are the thread based view & the fact I can use it!!!

My sig isn't generated by the PC, I actually 'sign' my posts by hand!

I'll have to get rid if this Gates shat & try summat else!

Nige

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Nige

Macs? Nasty 'orrible things, loved by everyone who loves them. Cue Nikki....

Mozilla is cross-platform, so available for various pooters. Thunderbird is the mail/news system, Firefox is the browser or you can get both together under the 'Mozilla' name.

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Apart from some very specific issues with certain websites who should be able to do better, and some sites I use which have a lot of active content (e.g. GotoMyPC which I use a lot) I no longer have any use for IE or OE.

For newsgroups only, I'd recommend Agent (or FreeAgent if you want a free version).

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One day I'll finish writing my SQL based news client. It will be awesome, honest....

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Tim Hobbs

On or around Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:44:39 +0100, Tim Hobbs enlightened us thusly:

I'd go with either recommendation. Although you can make OE behave if you try. I use full paid-for 1.9 Agent for mail and news, and Mozilla as a browser - in fact, I donl;t install the mail and news bits of mozilla. However, the full mozilla has advantages over fire-whateveritisthisweek, most notably the ability to have different user profiles.

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Austin Shackles

Oooooooh... Emily!

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Mother

k off Tim... I've been trying to write a web based usenet app under python (using mailman) for about a year... time-n-all...

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Mother

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