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GavinHuart
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by GavinHuart Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:21 pm
Hello all!
This is a picture of my rather magnificent Bill-Noble-built Fleetline engine, which a lot of you may have already seen.
There's been a bit of tinkering of late
. Random as it sounds, 10 points to the one who can spot what's "different" about how it appears now (Nic and Pierre, be quiet
)
Gav'
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Sambabus
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by Sambabus Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:32 pm
Fan shroud?
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fig
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by fig Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:38 pm
Alternator is the internally regulated style (ie, not the 75-only 3-prong externally regulated alt)???
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GavinHuart
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by GavinHuart Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:42 pm
fig wrote: Alternator is the internally regulated style (ie, not the 75-only 3-prong externally regulated alt)???
Hmmm. Bugger. I should have known you'd know more about these engines than I. You are correct on both points but they are not what I'm hinting towards I'm afraid. You happy with five points?
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- It is something else and something not terribly technical
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Tony Z
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by Tony Z Thu Apr 03, 2014 5:48 pm
looks like you might have an electronic dizzy and coil
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by IMPI Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:26 pm
Wrong oil pressure light sensor
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GavinHuart
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by GavinHuart Thu Apr 03, 2014 7:13 pm
Tony Z wrote: looks like you might have an electronic dizzy and coil
Thanks Tony Z. Nope. Stock ignition stuff on this one.
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dixtoy
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by dixtoy Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:33 pm
Heater pipes connected
I'M ADDICTED TO BRAKE FLUID, BUT HEY I CAN STOP ANY TIME
hitlers revenge
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by hitlers revenge Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:59 pm
Where is that pipe going from the oil filler cap?? Is that connected to your brake booster????
Why do we celebrate the guy that invented the wheel??
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by fig Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:59 pm
Are you boasting about the nice new orignal style paper and foil heater pipes?
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by fig Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:00 pm
hitlers revenge wrote: Where is that pipe going from the oil filler cap?? Is that connected to your brake booster????
That's the crankcase breather, connects to the inlet pipe of the air filter.
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by fig Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:02 pm
GavinHuart wrote: You are correct on both points but they are not what I'm hinting towards I'm afraid. You happy with five points?
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Each!
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buggyfan
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by buggyfan Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:05 pm
No more oil leaks???
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buggyfan on Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
. Random as it sounds, 10 points to the one who can spot what's "different" about how it appears now (Nic and Pierre, be quiet 
. Not that either 
