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I think I may have answered some of my own questions - it dawned on me late last night that the main difference (only difference?) between the Girling cylinders and the Bendix is the type of fitting - Girling 10mm Bendix 3/8ths - mine seems to be 3/8ths. Chris

Yet another little niggle with Blanche - but I think we're slowly getting her into good working order. I have a rear brake binding - having dismantled the brake I discovered a seized piston in the wheel cylinder - hopefully this will turn out to be the cause. Anyway my real problem was getting...

I've occasionally found with our R4's that if it doesn't go into reverse straight off I have to lift off the clutch pedal push it down again then try engaging reverse again. With the LHD cars the reverse position on the gear lever does seem to be well over to the right. You could always...

Hi Steve We only got the car a couple of months ago and up to that time it had only done about 3000 miles in the previous year - so it looks like it probably did lots of short journeys. And it did live in Glasgow where it's always cold and wet!!! Chris

I'm in the process of changing the oil in Blanche and have found white sludge under the oil filler cap and in the breather hose. The oil I've drained out of the car seems fine with no traces of the white sludge in it or in the oil filter. Is this something serious like a head gasket :eek: - or...

But you do get £23.50 back for the old one :D

We had the same problem with our R4 and when the clip was re-engaged it was still difficult to shut - a liberal smearing of vaseline over the catch soon had it fettled. Chris

I think the problem is now sorted - no problem with the car just the garage. To test the fitting they had been trying to fit the old (3/8) male fitting into a new 10mm fitting and found it was loose. :roll: :roll: :roll: Anyway I explained about possibility of 3/8 fittings to the head...

I thought it may be something like that but they assured me that they had tried all their usual stock fittings - it does sound odd though. :confused: Chris

I'm not totally sure which pipes - I will question them further tomorrow - but they did say rear pipes with male fittings so possibley the flexible pipe to drum. When I rang them earlier this evening they did say they had tried 10mm and 3/8 and that neither was a tight fit, they also didn't...

Does anybody know if a 1990 French 4TL would have none standard brake pipe fittings? Our Blanche is at the garage at the moment having new rear brake pipes fitted and they say that the fitting is not standard (the standard 10mm or 3/8 they've tried are loose in the female fitting) Perhaps...

You should be able to tell from the oval plate number begining 112. 1123 - 845cc, 112C - 956cc, 1128 - 1108cc this is assuming an oringinal engine