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price of diesel my car is now my daily Had worse things 😆 Had a owner of another mk3 GT 2dr visit me weekend looking for some work to be done I said I know the car was on eBay ten ISH year ago and decibed it from the add He swore at me and said I can't believe you remembered it .. Escorts all lined up rubbers catches ect Now doing a dummy fit up off everything Get it back on spit and get painting

So vibration update, as someone told me on here, it could be the engine mounts, well I went through my eBay history, I bought uprated mounts, I've since changed to softer ones, from France of all places, had cut away pictures of the thread seperate with rubber in-between, I suspect the uprated thread goes all the way through, anyway , it's like a different car, vibration gone. Also done some bodywork, rust on the seam at the back is a bad trap, cut out welded new section in, skim of fibreglass , then filled , lucky me had some paint left from respray years ago now

Well bit the bullet and spent £150 on a new fuel tank sender, got to say came with the seal and fitted a treat , it is pricey though

Exhaust is probably condensation, a new cap is peanuts & seconds to fit /try. After that a compression tester is cheap & simple to use. You could buy a water system pressure tester or make one from an old rad cap. Drill a hole in the centre of cap ,remove innards fit a tyre valve in hole fit cap then use your tyre pump to put about 15psi in system. The pressure should remain constant. If it starts to drop look/listen for water/air leaking somewhere.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I will try to make contact with that seller. Of course I would pay the shipping and extra for the hassle of doing so. Also working another option. My son has a friend who lives south of London who has offered to pick them up. I will report back.

Hiya, Just putting this here for info purposes. I got a pair of recon/remanufacturedAustin Princess 4-pot calipers, to hopefully give a bit more anchoring assistance. With Capri vented discs I found that I needed 7.5mm spacers between the caliper and the upright/spindle bearer, to get the disc centered in the caliper. Thanks

Morning Stu, Yeh works great I will update the thread

thanks,,,,but i gave it away :-)

Thanks for that - got a pair ordered. FIngers crossed, because if that resolves it, I can out it back on the ground for the first time in months.

I never thought of taking the 'stat out. I'll try that next time I go over to the lockup. I'll take a flask of boiling (almost) water, also I'll take my full size 'water' fire extinguisher with me as a stand in for a hose pipe, see if I can reverse flush some of that brown silt out! Watch this space.......

I had a similar episode with one of my cars, an Avenger sorry for swearing. Had to change the thermostat housing and after I changed it, it did the same symptoms. It stopped bubbling up when I took the thermostat out and it holds its water with no pressurising. Run it up hot and driven it, no pressurising. I’ve not checked the old thermostat or put a new one in yet, it’s a low use car, but suspect it was just a stubborn air lock somewhere in the system or faulty thermostat.

The inners are same as MK2 escort std models ( RS are imperial thread same as all mk1s)with metric thread.

I think I may need to do the tappets!

I'll leave this here. Closest it's getting to my driveway. But each to their own. https://www.facebook.com/share/176fTQh23m/

Right, update and not a happy one. I bought a new radiator cap, for anybody in the North West there's a little shop in Old Swan, just outside of Liverpool called 'MOTORNEEDS' specialising in parts for older cars. He's a nice guy, regardless of some of the negative feedback on Google maps. After I paid for my new rad cap he said, I've got a book for you, and produces a Ford Cortina mk3 Owners Handbook. OK, it's for a pre facelift but it was free so no complaints here. Back to my dilemma. 20260328_171612.mp4 So, 1/ Where did the water go? 2/ My finger is OK, it was only washing the dishes hot. 3/ Now I have silt and bubbles WTF is wrong now??? The rad had a new core fitted around about the time it went into the lockup for hibernation, back in September 2014 after its' last MOT pass! Hoses fitted with the rad.The bottom one crunches when I squeeze it!....If I had any hair left, I'd be pulling it out now, oh and I can't flush it out 'cos it's about 2 miles away from my house and my hosepipe won't reach! Oh, I missed it overflowing with the cap on as well. 20260328_171926.mp4

This may not be the right bit of the site for this but my mate Dave Walker (CCC, PPC, EMERALD CAMS, EMERALD M3D ECUs) has started posting video's on YouTube. He did the ECU in my 24v Cosworth Cortina and is an absolute diamond geezer who is always helpful. Have a look! I actually learned something new from his video on Air/Fuel ratio: https://www.youtube.com/@EmeraldM3D-Dave/videos

They didn't have viscous fans in 1975. I have a video or two IF and when they finish transfering by clockwork bluetooth!

Heater control doesn't effect flow on cortinas. Remove top heater hose when filling to bleed air ( it's highest point in system.

Always had good results with rally design. The spring rate is that is how much it takes to squash them 1in. Some say you can put them on a bathroom scale & get someone to measure the spring length while you push down on it & read the amount. So if your spring is supposed to be 230 lb/in & is 12 in tall , it should take that to push the spring down to 11in. Hope that makes sense.

I've had problems with front springs to All from are well know ford tunnig shop Sending out different rates springs with the same numbers on the springs Been through a few sets

It's a FL and the subframe that came with it is definitely FL too or it wouldn't fit the chassis mounts

Thanks, I just machined up a 50mm spacer for the steering wheel and now everything is perfect 👌

Sorry just seen this and happy you've persevered and succeeded. Usually a soak in hot water first helps especially if where you are working is chilly.

Disregard - with some elbow grease, and some actual grease, they popped on fairly easily. Ta.

People have used the threaded bar from centre of a a cortina etc side lift jack before.

I think so, can't remember TBH Working on the ground with the wheel off, facing outwards will work the best.

This is the distance from the metal of the dash to the face of the wheel on my MK4. I had the same issue as you are finding on my Capri (many years ago) which had a mountney style wheel. I figured it was cos it moved the wheel further back and thus reduced leg room. I intended to get a spacer ring made, but wrote the car off before I had the opportunity. Ooops.

Yes , my era too . i bought a Remington shaver at the time but it was so square , you needed a chin like Desperate Dan to use it (more past memories eh !!)

As close as a blade or your money back. Did the engine start or just turn over ?!

Snowflakes won't have a clue who/what your on about.

Clutch will probably be hydraulic with one of those slave cylinders inside bellhousing so it's a full strip down & might as well swap clutch & flywheel mate while it's apart so another few hundred on bill ( they call it progress 🤣🤣)

Hi all, I am starting a build on a MK5 Cortina Estate that used to belong to a Fanatic member years ago who sadly passed away. His intent was to Cosworth V6 the car so that is my intention. Here is the link to the first video I have made about the car giving a walkaround and the story behind it. Hope you all enjoy it. Cheers Andy.

Great job

Iv'e got the Land rover ones fitted in mine, no vibration problems!

In reply to Sierra3dr, yes I think they all had it. I don't have a Mk1 Fiesta anymore, but had two in the past. I had to buy adjusters for both, about £7 from Ford, (IIRC, or was it £27? It was a long time ago) Great little cars until you meet a Mk2 Fiesta coming out of a side road as you overtake a dozy Datsun driver and,.....BOOM! Now I have no idea what my current clutch setup is like. It's a Peugeot, with the dreaded 3 cylinder 1.2 wet belt engine (run awayyyy run awayyyyy!). Lots of electronics, no CD player, No sat Nav unless you have an Apple phone to connect. Irritating warnings on the dashboard display, door open, release handbrake, tyre pressure (corner specific) below recommended limits, service due in so many miles or 4 weeks! After this car I'm going back to a Toyota! Mind you, robbing Rachel Thieves hasn't got me with the road tax, it's still only £35.

Bout 3 hours usually gofri afternoon.