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"CSIRO radio telescope array is a sight more interesting than Parkes imho"

- except that the visitors' centre at Narrabri is unstaffed. And you got there during the every-two-years radio astronomy school too.

You didn't perchance use the little steerable parabolic dish to troubleshoot your ...

Harv,

One-and-five-eighth inch. Unless you have a very early head, in which case 1-1/4".

Rob

Ed,

The founding father of the Humpy club in NSW made a dog-leg shape adapter bracket so he didn't have to change front engine mount plates when putting later grey motors into FX/FJs.

You'd bolt it straight up to the late front mount plate. The adapter would be shaped so it bears hard up against ...

Ed,

I just noticed a reference to modifying an FJ front engine mount plate to suit a J-block. Here's what you need to do:

1: The oil drain holes in the EJ front main bearing cap are lower than in an FJ. You'll need to rework the FJ front engine mount plate to suit. If you have the EJ front engine ...

Craig,

What you said about coolant temperature swings on warmup: My FC's got an improved head gasket and a three-row radiator core. Coming back from WA one year, I started off from Ouyen when the ambient temp was about ten degrees and saw the same thing. Coolant temp in the cylinder head went up to ...

Steve,

I haven't read all the thread, but my experience with the aftermarket "grey" harmonic balancers isn't good. The only one that's been on a motor of mine fractured the hub and was quite loose as a result.

"Officially" I recondition original equipment grey harmonic balancers. But car-related ...

I use 80W-90 in gearboxes and diffs. The capacity is a litre, give or take. The correct level is within a quarter-inch of running out the filler plug hole.

Rob

. . . and I'm too late. By about two hours.

Rob

Didn't Reg Mombassa do a T-shirt design to that effect -
the amphibious EK Holden, catching a wave?

Rob

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one more thing - I notice that your bellhousing has red overspray inside where the starter motor goes. Red, not grey. Could you possibly have an early EH 149 bellhousing? ETA: Belay that. In the photo with the new slave cylinder, it's definitely an EJ ...

Well done spotting the assist spring the wrong way around.

Dr Terry: . . . stand corrected. I'm basing my experience on the one 149 EH I had, which was engine number H3529.* Now that you mention it, a friend had an Aug '64 149, and I noticed nothing out of the ordinary with its gearbox, so it must ...

The slave cylinder with the offset bolt holes is for 179 EH, all HD, HR, and HK with crashbox.
EJ and 149 EH takes your style of slave cylinder with the symmetric flange.
Internally they take the same components; but the bellhpousing was redesigned for the 179, necessitating the change to the slave ...

The top sump will be from an EJ. It should have an "O" stamped into the middle step.
Early sumps have a 7/8"AF sump plug and lack the internal baffle.
My 1957 master parts catalog has two part numbers: one for FX/FJ (7401015) and one for FE (7409864). Presumably the FE sump was carried through to EK ...

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Notepad.
Shift-insert.

Images are good.

Your assist spring is, in fact, seated correctly in the clutch fork. All the parts are operating correctly. And yes, the assist spring coils are supposed to swing over a wide arc as the ...

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If your clutch lever assist spring pops out of the clutch fork when you go to actuate the clutch, I'm willing to guess that the "mouse-trap ...