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Fitted a powerspark high energy dizzy and new viper VCE dry coil with new leads to this red vans engine last week, makes the world of difference highly recommend for anyone who hasnt already done it. Engine will hopefully be being removed in the next couple of weeks once space is available up...

Is also a shop on eBay called gaskets for classics which will have the gasket for it if you wanted to put new ones on

As I’ve been taking mine apart lately, due to nutgate, it’s very easy, if you’ve got an SU Just take the carb off first then it’s an easy undo and bolt back on job. You’ll be fine

Well guys, some updates from me on the project. Firstly thank you for all the advice so far, we have a cracked piston. So I now have another commer that needed too much welding so it’s going to probably be broken fully unless I decide to spend an incredible amount of money to try save it...

Guys as a lot of you probably already know, I’ve got a Commer Donor van, which I’m using the engine from, ideally the van needs a ton of welding work as it’s very rotten so I’m selling a lot of the parts off it. It came with a few boxes of goods including lots of new rubbers for the engine that...

I’ll be using them I’m pretty sure myself but I’ll let you know if I don’t. Mine are a bit rotten on the bottoms on Betty and these ones are in pretty good condition.

Yeah its clearly been looked after engine wise, You can tell its been looked after well over the years mainly as its not got hardly any filler in it, sadly its just rotted away, I will get some good pictures tomorrow of all the rot so you can really see the extent of it. Its basically gaffer...

yeah this doesnt have any of that in, the one im turning into the pizza van had a bench version but ive already shifted all that stuff. Good luck with the hunt!

The van is fairly well known I believe it was called Rockin Robin and Martin may have done the engine rebuild on it a good few years ago, its got a weber carb on it atm.

its not that same red one that was up for breaking for ages no, its a different one that had been stored in a workshop for a good few years, the interior is already pretty much all gone and has people wanting it. I will be back at the van tomorrow daytime so if you give me a call I can show you...

A few pictures but best to get in touch.

Guys, as you know, Betty had some engine issues, this has now led me down the slippery slope of owing another Commer. The issue I have is it’s pretty rotten, in a very bad way to the point where welding would cost I think minimum 8-10k to restore her. I originally got it for the engine as it...

Well guys, its looking like I need a new piston. My question is, what size pistons fit well in my setup, I have an Su carb job done on the manifold and she was running lovely before nutgate happened. I dont mind having to get stuff rebored or honed, if you were in my shoes and had a 1974 1725...

Tried the plug swap, still cylinder 4, tried the leads too, so I’m hoping ive done the valve clearance too tight on the 4th cylinder. Will re-do them all again tomorrow. The do a compression check. Pray for me I don’t want to have to have the head off again

So update, 4th cylinder I am getting a spark but its not firing. When i pull the lead off the engine doesnt change, does with all the other cylinders, unsure if its Valve clearance on that cylinder or a compression issue, deffo getting some compression just from the finger test but tomorrow I...

Betty is fully back together and running! Well, she’s running pretty bad, the vacuum hose basically snapped off on my hand so I’ve had to plug it at the carb and dizzy for now just to get her fired up. Got some new stuff coming Saturday hopefully. In other news my thermostat seems to have a...

Starting to come back together now! A clean table so the Roast dinner is on for Sunday! Gave her a push in 4th gear and the valves and rocker gear all moving correctly with no lock ups which is promising. The gasket set, the thermostat cover bit didn’t fit so need to make one for that. The...

Slowly putting her back together! The side cover thing where the tappets are barely had a gasket on it before so I suppose it’s good to have all new gaskets everywhere !

Thought I’d update you, heads fine! Somehow it’s gone in, through the valve, out the other end without even hitting it! Then landed flat In the piston area. I’m a Lucky man! Also. The eBay gasket set you linked, they are based literally a 20 min drive from me, drove down today to collect it to...

yeah i did see those and think they just looked mega small and different to what i had seen online, thanks buddy, taking the head to the brother in law tomorrow and hes going to teach me how to sort it all out and do any machine work needed so shes looking like shes saved