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The phenolic spacer is really important. They had them fitted when new but you often find on older cars they have gone missing or just replaced with a normal gasket and nothing else. I had same problem, correct spacer was missing, cut one out of 6mm phenolic sheet. This has so far worked fine...

As an impressionable child in the 70s I saw a Renault 4 with an R16 engine. Most of the firewall had to be chopped away to do it so it requires a lot of customising and general butchery. So I personally would not recommend it. Just my opinion. As for other cars- Renault 16 obviously, would make...

It seems to me more likely the fuel is draining out of the float bowl. It would have to go uphill to go back into the fuel pump. Look for leaks around the flat bowl bottom screws- drain plug and the adjustment screws.

Lovely van! The spanish wheels are great.

Wow! Really nice! Great work, and a fantastic colour scheme!

Best method Look for a nice tall truck going your direction at the speed you want. Pull in behind and get sucked along. You don't have to be dangerously close- in a R4 even quite far away - well within safe/normal distances you will notice you can let the throttle pedal up significantly. I just...

After a lot of looking I ended up getting a pair of these slip-on head rests from Germany: https://oldtimer-ersatzteile24.de/Seats_183 99 Euro each and pretty nice quality- they do them in a variety of colours. I bought a pair a couple of years ago after a cervical fusion, have them on my '68...

An R4 covered in R4s, or made up of tiny R4s...... is this a meta-R4? Or a trans-four-mer?

The other reason it rolls so much is suspension geometry- the roll centre for the trailing arm set up is at ground level. Adding an anti- roll bar at the rear works wonders, but at the detriment of ride.

Another possibility might be a Ferlec electric clutch set-up out of a Renault Dauphine.

I found this happened quite a lot in hot weather, i.e cold morning, warm afternoon. I think the problem is not just the petrol expanding because it happens when the tank is quite a bit under 100% full. Its also trapped air expanding with no vent at the top of the tank on the left hand side. So...

Further to that airmail from the UK is currently taking 2 months to get to Australia, as UK post can't find planes to put it on. They aren't actually telling anyone about that though, so everyone in the UK thinks mail to the colonies is perfectly fine. and it seems to be either going by sea or...

Tom, I had a similar issue. It was with La Poste colissimo internationale, they were only taking parcels for some countries depending on how long they thought it would take to get through. They are now taking more but only at the higher classes of mail. Some non-postage couriers will be different.

Well, bog standard solar panels aren't very efficient but the latest generation are getting up to 20%. And solar energy non-recurring is free, so its moot. But I havent done any sums on volume of hydrogen and I take your point, you'd be better off driving an electric motor via a battery- but...

And this is where something like powering a very small car using an existing internal combustion engine burning hydrogen and oxygen generated by electrolysis using the same solar array rig that is used for your domestic electricity generation might make some sort of sense- or a similar solution...

I'm not getting my hopes up. Renospeed Jnr- I understand it was no great shakes but - in my mind at least- there is an awful lot of symbolism involved in destroying (insert favourite make and model here) which I think can rub off on the general population and it can have long term and unintended...

Good point- I would hope the right casing goes with the right shaft. My casing seems to have a pressed in bung like a welch plug at the end, but being where it is, very hard to see properly.

Thanks guys! You've put me on the spot, I need to have a look and see if I have the later or earlier casing. Harbourseal I'm definitely interested.

Given that this is top gear is the car still in existence or has it been blown up, shot with a missile, squashed with a piano or variously f###ed over in the service of some drunken luvvie's ego???

My understanding is the cars with the 334 gearbox only had the starting handle dog until they went to 12V electrics, and after that they kept the hole in the front bumper and bonnet for another couple of years but the dog was an extra cost option. I don't know how true that is but my car has the...