Hi Lane:
I have a supply of those insulators that you mention. Also, On the rear
plate on the head. Use a new one, and new gasket. Dont use cork. I have
some nice asbestos ones. Also, dont use spoit lock washers under the four
screws. Use German style wafer washers. This should stop your leak problems.
Cheers:
Skip..............At 10:22 AM 6/27/97 -0800, Lane Rollins wrote:
>Well it's for a TF 1500 actually...
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>1. Is there a trick to getting the back plate on the head to seal?
> A couple of years ago I had to replace the head gasket, so I took
> the head to a machine shop to have them go thru it and check for
> any other problems while it was off. Every thing was okay dokey, but
> since reassembling it's always leaked a bit (once a lot on a rally,
> but that's another story).
>
>2. I need to replace the insulator that goes between the base plate in the
> distributor and the low tention lead to the coil. Since the base plate
> assembly is NLA from Moss, is there any problem with just taking a
> nylon spacer and cutting it down to size? Why do I need to repalce it?
> Well the old one that had been glued once before fell apart again.
>
>I'm sure there will be more as I get the car ready to drive to the GoF West!
>
>For what it's worth, what seemed to cause the leak in the rear axle was
>that the bolts that hold the backing plate and the bearing assembly
>together had loosened up over the years.
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>Thanks, Lane
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