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Hi Tom

Could you guide me on setting the timing on the engine, especially using a "timing light"?

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I have ordered a starter from British Starters. While i wait for this to arrive, the present starter was repaired and refitted on the car. I went to see the car today. The engine fires nicely, with a nice growly sound, but you can hear the miss at idle, which gets a little worse when revving up the ...

btw, in case your suggestion is still the same - to get the reduction gear starter from british starters, could you please confirm its the "212" starter for v 12 ferrari's from the 1950's?

OK-v seem to be making progress. I havent seen for myself, but i am told that the carbs have now been set and the miss has gone. I was scheduled to get the car back finally for trial use over this weekend, but .... at the last minute the starter packed up again. Its turning slowly, or as we call it ...

Thank you for all the input. I had called out a synchronometer from Mike Pierce- he had sent me the one shown in the pictures above, but with a ready adapter to exactly fit the 40 DFI 5 carb. For those of you who are interested, he keeps these in stock, and i forget the price now, but it was in the ...

NEED HELP : The rear suspension has been overhauled-This took some time as i had to wait for some more parts from T Rutlands. These finally arrived and were fitted. The car was then given for an entire new muffler system, pipes, mufflers et all. After this, we thought we can now "finally" set the ca...

Thank you 250 GT, i have PM'd you for your help. The rear suspension has been overhauled-This took some time as i had to wait for some more parts from T Rutlands. These finally arrived and were fitted. The car was then given for an entire new muffler system, pipes, mufflers et all. After this, we th...

Merry Christmas! The Ferrari is undergoing rear suspension work after which it will get a new set of mufflers and pipes. Am also having the meters serviced. Have run into a problem-am enclosing some photographs-this is the gear housing for the Tachometer. There are no gears in it! I can get these fa...

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An update: Finally! The car has been taken out on the road. :D I was not present but the mechanic tells me that she runs smoothly. There is still a bit of hesitation upon revving the engine from idle. :( (Any suggestions?) Will track this down, but-The mufflers and pipes have a lot of leaks-he advis...

Hi Mark, Thanks for letting me know what the red light is for. Unfortunately, that is not the cause of the problem as we have not connected the choke yet. Today we have removed the centre carb (the one which was giving us the problem) and taken it apart to clean it thoroughly. Will reassemble and re...

Went and saw the Ferrari-it is still missing slightly. Have narrowed it down to the center carb. Will get the needles valves etc opened and cleaned tomm. In the meanwhile have been trying to get the various meters gauges etc working- In the tach dial there is a red light (towards the bottom right) w...

Hi Yale, I am based in Bombay, India-and so are all the cars. At the moment there is a cuda, two mustangs ('68 fastback 302 and '67 sedan 289 ) '68 camaro 350, 85 500 SL, '72 Porsche 911, and some others. Amongst the others, of interest to you may be a '56 series 62 Cadillac convertible. As i had st...

Got the new wires and installed them. The missing reduced but was still there. Removed the spark plugs and cleaned them The missing reduced even further but still there. Removed the jets etc from the carb and cleaned them The missing seems to have gone. Hesitate to say it yet again-next step-road tr...