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1972 models have beige dashboards for sure. The hole on the bumper was deleted along with the gearbox dog on 1972 model year cars. The bumper must had been replaced at some time with an earlier one.

Nice car!

Maybe he replaced the front part of the sump gasket (it's a 4 piece gasket) with a rope seal? If it was built after July 1973, it's a 1974 model year and has black dashboard, and new style gearbox. Again, oval plate number would be a big help to determine actual model year. Swedish import makes...

On both my '71 and a friends '72 shifts to 2nd gears are smooth and nice. A customer's '68 crunches badly when shifting to 2nd; the synchro is worn, or the synchro spring is broken.

There are no oil seals on these engines, neither conventional nor rope ones as on your picture. There is a slinger and a series of ridges cut at an angle, immediately in front of the front main bearing that encourage the oil to be thrown back as the crankshaft is rotating. Leaks from the...

The car you refer to may be the R16, which had a rear seat with an independent backrest that provided numerous inner room arrangements. The rear backrest hinged from its top corners, and therefore the "bed setup" was achieved by fixing the backrest horizontally and flipping the front seat...

This is not true. All gears are synchronised on both 328 (late three-speed) and 334 (early four-speed) gearboxes. Early three-speed (313 type) lacked first gear synchromesh, but double declutching was still not necessary when shifting to 2nd. @Boozer: Could it be that your gearbox is a four...

It's a Solex 32 EISA. Fitted on some export R4s (Germany, Sweden...) as well as on R6s.

It helps a lot to substitute the shock absorber with the threaded tool, then adjust its length to what you did when you had fitted the torsion bar - or to factory setting if you haven't removed the bars. Suspension arm bushes try to push the arm towards the half laden posiion and this puts some...

No, stud PCD is different.

A 1976 R4 visited my workshop today, and I thought to compare its chassis number with another '76 car I have in the workshop. Diamond plates are only 8 numbers apart! However, oval plates differ by 207 numbers, with the white car having the smaller number: Food for thought and discussion...

When suspension is compressed, camber becomes more negative and vice versa. I suppose you are checking camber at each wheel when it's parallel to chassis side member. With such a high caster angle, slight toe in / out alters camber significantly. If you have to check camber now before the body...

The camber angles can be corrected by putting shims between the suspension uprights and the chassis, at the top or bottom bolts. But first of all the car must be at the correct ride height, equal on both sides.

There is no metal-to-metal contact or sliding on these bushes. Not even rubber to metal sliding, because they are "flexibloc" bushes, this means outer sleeve vulcanised to rubber bush that is vulcanised to inner sleeve. Movement is achieved by the rubber part flexing. That's why it's important...

The lower edge of the "love handle" is fitted on the outer bumper mounting bolt by an "L" shaped bracket. Fit and adjust the bumper, fabricate the brackets (easy) and fit the handles. Adjust them so that the whole pressed section is inside the wing-bonnet gap, just as on your photo. Then open...

480mm for drum brakes, 405mm for disc brakes.

Worn arm bushes give sounds that range from creaking to clonking according to my experiece. Inner ones are the most suspect for noises as you can't see what's going on with them. Outer ones will usually first visually fail, then audibly. Don't overlook both shock absorber fixings, as Andy...

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I agree!

Hi Ian I have new "short" front wheel brake cylinders for sale, if you are interested.