The Lotus Grand Tourers

Have you a route to order sorted yet Stu?

Tony

My guess Is these F pipes, although 'new' were manufactured MANY years ago and have been on a shelf. Material has started to degrade, hence not really fit for purpose any more. I have the same set up as Bryan, which cost pennies and lasts for ever. Bit of a dilemma though if your seeking total origi...

My car has Nylock nuts and don't need to be over tight.
I just put an 8mm socket on a 1/4 " UJ, then a screw driver handle drive. Being Nylock, hand tight is plenty.

Tony

“Teddy bear” fabric

If you'd posted that last Monday I wouldn't have took it seriously.

Not sure I've seen it. Anyone got a photo?

Been thinking. If it was the starter motor, why wasn't the gear thrown out to the fly wheel? Unless I have two problems?

An intermittent issue today. Cold start, bit reluctant to fire. Holding key in crank position for maybe 5 seconds, but when key released, I could still hear a motor running in engine bay. Engine not yet running, and not being cranked, just a motor running. I THINK it was the starter motor. Switched ...

BBQ, Pootle and Classic looks a perfect triple.
All signed up.

Can't help on the vac advance unit, but check the hall effect pick up wire closely and also the nylon castlation widget that drives the vac plate.
The wire particularly gave me much grief for many months (years) until I eventually replaced with new. Intermittent break in the wire.

Thanks Phil. 7:00 is a good time for me.
Tony

Good News / Bad News. Bad news : offered Pete's recently produced lower grill up yesterday. Thanks to Lotus quality control, "Houston - we have a slight problem". https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xl13g48wduzhsca77zfvc/Grill.jpg?rlkey=s405fwlgetae5p3loaf48s4va&raw=1 Best part of 15mm longer than the av...

I would have been there, but cars not off SORN until Monday.
I went last year and the Silk Red is identical to mine, just a lot better paintwork and generally reflecting it's lower mileage.
Owner lives in Rugby and only bought it last summer from Rochdale IIRC. - Cost a few bob more than mine though.

viewtopic.php?p=103530#p103530.
Just needed to search on 'butcher'

Accelerator Pumps might be difficult to access whilst still attached to car, but function might be possible to check.

Tony

Drawing a conclusion to this thread, power steering wasn't working all the time and it is most probable that the cause of my problem was the rack. To recap the problem, at slow manoeuvring speeds often the steering was just so heavy it was hard work to turn. Adding a little revs bought the fluid flo...

In a word - no. Anodised trims were wrapped, a few minor paint blemishes, but biggest issue looked to be drivers door, which had dropped significantly. Window frames didn't look great either. Alan and I reckoned it would have been a good buy at £12K. Particularly as it's done very few miles in last1...