Manky's Pop.

[Olds]

Don't recall a lip, but it's been 20 years since I needed to replace one.

[hunter]

Andy,Why not pull a plug out of your old motor,
You'll see what your dealing with that way.

[Manky Monkey]

Aah, good idea!

[terry t]

Try this one Andy this will seal any leak

http://www.ct1ltd.com/en/miracle-seals.html

[scannerzer]

that is made about 60 miles from me and i've never heard of it before !

[Manky Monkey]

I was at a local car meet this morning & chatted to 4 different mates who'd all used K Seal, one in the last week, & all swore it had permanently fixed similar core plug leaks.
So I'll crawl under the Pop tomorrow & if there's no obvious major damage to the plugs, I'll try K Seal as the first step when I fire the engine up. While I'm under there, I'll see how easy the access would be if I need to remove & refit them.

[kapri]

I take it the latest one was Chris ?

[Manky Monkey]

Yup. 

[Manky Monkey]

K Seal bought, ready to add when we run the engine.

Spent a little while today making a tool to prime the oil around the engine. With the distributor out, this slots over the drive & turning it clockwise operates the oil pump. As I was told, after a minute or so of pumping, I could feel some pressure build up, then clear, which was presumably the Vaseline packed into the pump working it's way through. Took one of the rocker covers off to check the oil had reached the top of the engine. Not the big fountain of lubricant I'd expected, but there was definitely fresh oil between the rocker arms. So hopefully all's well.

[Manky Monkey]

Mr Loon sprayed the grille shell in 2 pack primer a couple of days ago, so I flatted in back with 400 grit wet n dry, ready for top coating in green.
You can see here how I'm working my way from front to back, trying to finish everything as I go.

[Manky Monkey]

Just me & the cat at the workshop this afternoon, which I quite like -no disrespect to Mr Loon -although Workshop Cat's rubbish at bleeding brakes, which was my job for the day.
Apparently, so am I.
I used an "Easibleed" pressure bleeder, which uses air pressure from a spare tyre to push the brake fluid through the system. Despite having the correct adaptor cap fitted on the master cylinder & roughly 20psi of air in the tyre, as recommended, it constantly forced fluid out from under the cap, past the rubber seal, creating a big puddle of fluid under the car, (yes, I cleaned it up Loon).
I spent a couple of hours going round & round the 6 bleed nipples, bleeding air out of them, but was still getting a stream of bubbles in my bleed bottle from all of them when I gave up after using up a litre of fresh brake fluid. Surely it must be drawing air back in somewhere, but I've no idea where. The pedal travels about halfway to the floor, but I can't decide if it's pumping up or staying constant -I'd really had enough of the bloomin' thing by the time I called it a night.
Just as I was about to pack up, I discovered I'd splashed brake fluid on a corner of my green paint, so had to spend another hour rubbing it right back to bare metal, priming it & re-spraying it. I hate brakes.
On the plus side, I did manage to fit the windscreen wiper arms, complete with fresh blades.
Did I mention I HATE brakes?

[morrag]

On a scale of 1-10 Mr. M, how do you really feel about........brakes then?

[Manky Monkey]

  Enough to seriously consider paying someone to come round & sort them out -payment by results of course. Any takers?

[kapri]

Just concentrate on getting it bubble free at the servo nipples first Andy.

[Manky Monkey]

Will do.