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Hi Greg

Try www.superformance.co.uk they have them in their catalogue. Go to classic V12 and then look in body fittings.

Good luck

Colin

Hi Steve 1) You just have to loosen one bolt, or to be more precise one nut, the bolt head is held captive to stop rotation. The connecting sleeve is solid in the middle but split at each end. One pinch bolt locks it to the transmission shaft and the other to the drive shaft coming out of the bell h...

Thanks John. Steve, you do need to pull the transaxle and torque tube assembly away from the bell housing. Loosen the two nuts on the transaxle mounts, you don't need to take them off, just make sure they are loose enough to let everything slide backwards. Then undo and take off the nuts around the ...

Hi Steve I'm with Tom, we are all looking forward to seeing your progress! I built a stand for my engine, obviously based on the ones I have seen used by the factory but simplified to suit my welding abilities. I cross-drilled the support tubes so the engine can be rotated and held in 90 degree incr...

Hi Steve, I gather you've done the job now, but I thought I might add something to your question. I took my 365 GTC engine out using a sling, probably as most people do, but as I was working on it realised how relatively light and beautifully balanced it is. I made up a lifting plate which I attache...

Hi Tom I always read your blog with interest and was sorry to hear about the problems you have been having with the brake booster (servo). You mention that you cannot get M12 x 1.00 inserts anymore, so I thought I should let you know that they are still being made and should be readily available. I ...

Hi Tom Sorry for the late reply, but unfortunately I don't have an up to date answer to your question about synchro rings. I am not sure where you have been finding problems, but my first call would probably have been to Ferrari UK parts, or you could try Piet Roelof who certainly has 275 rings (not...

Hi, the coat hooks are fitted on a tapered dovetail. To get them off you have to push them upwards and when they pop off you will find a small bracket underneath which is fixed with a couple of small machine screws.
Good luck
Colin

Hi Tom Thanks for your nice words. Please see a couple of photo's showing my transaxle on a stand and also one which shows the case split open and you can clearly see just how deep the side plates are and why the friction build up is such that they are difficult to get off. I assume that apart from ...

Hi, My experience is that you have to loosen the rear cover before you will be able to remove the side covers. That is because the transaxle case, which is split on the centreline of the drive shafts, is an interference fit with the boss on the rear of the side covers. As already mentioned be very c...

Hi John I think lateral clearance should be 0.02mm to 0.05mm, with a specified wear limit of 0.15mm. I have seen examples of at least double that, with the engine still apparently running well, but I guess the you would then have to expect quite a lot of valve stem wear. Have a good Christmas break ...

Hi John Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have been away for a few days. The problem with most lathe chucks is that they "run out" to some degree and you would normally have to take a very light skim off the outside of a round bar to true it up. So if you hold your roller in a normal lathe chuc...

Hi John This is a really high wear area and I would be in there every year, if you are driving the car. The rollers themselves seem very hard wearing, but the bronze bushes inside them are subject to a lot of wear and I would expect to check each one as a matter of course every time you adjust the v...

Well that sounds like an interesting technique, presumably relying on the strength of the valve springs to rotate the shaft into position. Your comment about also leaving the distributors in place reminds me to mention that as the distributors are driven straight off the camshaft you will need to ch...

Hi Tom Yes, you do sometimes need to lever the sprocket back up onto the cam. I have made a short lever, the end of which is turned down to a loose fit inside the hollow oil way in the camshaft and it then steps out with a short taper to help the sprocket back into place. It is great to know that Fr...