I am just about to sort out the end float on both crankshafts --Could someone tell what the end float should ideally be.

Thanks again Paul----- Regards Ralph

Can someone help----Should there be washers under the nuts on the engine plate fixing bolts--if so should they be spring washers or flat washers.

Regards Ralph Thetford

Thank you once again Paul you have been a great help to me over the last year---Regards Ralph

Could someone please help with the following question ---- Should there be a rubber gasket between the speedo and the chrome panel, as looking under the speedo outer body flange is a small formed channel that looks like it is there to take a gasket.?

Regards Ralph

What is the best approach to fitting the heavy engine into the frame without scratching the new paint. As a fully assembled engine is very heavy I have built it up as far as just block and crankcase with a view to assembling the rest (ie head, primary case, mag, etc.)when I get it fitted into frame....

I have just assembled newly ground crankshafts into the crankcase which has had fitted new main roller bearings and new main plain bearings, presently the end float is zero and I therefore need to fit shims, does anyone know what the correct end float on the cranks should be ?
Regards Ralph.

Dear Roger, Thanks for your reply, The engine has the standard original pump and I am fitting Dragonfly type oil filter.---Regards Ralph

Hello, What is the latest thinking on the type of Engine oil I should use in my 1938 Square four, I have heard all sorts of stories about what to use ie--- Monograde, Monograde with additives, Multigrade, Etc--Etc.------ In both summer and winter or will one do for both--------What should I use??. R...

What type of Plating finish should there be on (1)--The Strap that holds the magneto in position, (2)--- The small diameter oil feed pipes from the crank case to the rocker box and (3)---The rocker box lid special nuts---they all dirty and old look and like unpolished chrome but are they supposed to...