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Piet, this is an early engine (five digit serial number), so it has timing gears. Your comment on this is right; the middle (fibre) timing gear will wear after some time, and camshaft drive will become sloppy, this may lead to noise at the front of the engine because engine ancillaries are being...

It will be OK. In fact, any coil with a primary resistance of about 3 Ohms will do.

16mm for all Cleon engines.

The tie rod is OK, it does not affect ride height anyway. Did you remove one or both torsion bars?

You can feel a rumble on the clutch pedal when slightly depressing it.

845 engines with small carburettors had the restriction for oil vapour recirculation hoses built in the inlet mainfold, at the point where the 90 deg. pipe fits, so it's normal not to find anything in the hoses. Check that throttle butterfly shaft does not have excessive play and that butterfly...

Purflux LS932 is the part number for post-84 engines (M20 thread). LS169B is the earlier (3/4"UNF) filter part number.

I agree with Reidar, if you can find a 5 speed HA1 go for it. Type HA1-003 has a final drive ratio of 3.625:1 which suits better Alpine's torque curve. Regarding the engine, if there is no damage to pistons themselves or camshaft, the rest of internal parts are common with other 1397 Cleon...

Check also the inlet/exhaust manifold and its gaskets. A blown exhaust port gasket produces a loud knock, oddly.

If this is the oval plate number, car is 1974 model year. On the terminal screw on Andy McGhee's photo there is a stack of nuts and washers; among them there is a fibre one (insulating) that must be placed first (closest to distributor body). Check also that the plastic block that holds the...

I had also seen this happen on a rear R4 drum. That's why many people prefer rivetted than glued-on brake linings.

845 R5s were partially fitted with a Solex 32 SEIA and partially with a 32 DIS carburettor, both of them being used on the larger engined R5s, too. These will fit on your inlet manifold. You can also fit a Zenith 32 IF7 as fitted on the latest 845 engines. Some jet tweaking may be necessary on...

Regarding the 1108 conversion, it's a late production body, so it will be simply a matter of finding all the GTL parts and bolting them on.

Then maybe somebody in the past may had wired a buzzer to warn about exceeding speed limit. Would be interesting to see how it has been done.

Yes the Turbo engine can be fitted with atmo pistons, but Turbo head is 0,5mm higher (79,8mm) and combustion chamber volume is bigger (45,3cc) so you will end up with slightly lower compresson ratio than factory 10:1. You can always skim cylinder head by 0,5mm, though. Also camshafts are...

M8x1.25 thread, I don't remember length but you can calculate it easily by adding thicknesses of fuel pump, gasket, insulator, washer and nut.

My "hot weather" cooling pack on my 1975 845cc: -74 deg.C thermostat - low temperature but not completely removed, having a slight restriction to coolant flow at this point is said to be beneficial because it eliminates vapor locks in the head / block. -Recored Billancourt radiator with a 3 row...

I guess it's the speedometer magnet bush gone dry or having excessive play. Whenever it has happened to me, it made more of a howling sound than beeping, though.

A 1968 car I have driven had lighter steering than the newer R4s, and going 10mm wider on tyres is not that big deal anyway. Struggling to find a reputable brand 145/80/13 here, too. The only one (relatively) readily available is the Uniroyal Rain Expert 3.

On later cars (1978 onwards), the crossmember is being held by three bolts at each side, two at the rear and one at the front. These front ones are not the easiest to access, but they only need to be loosened a couple of turns because there are open slots at the front of the crossmember. This...