AndyStobbs
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Should be your problem right there.
Shouldn't be too hard to do, the straight edges where it's broke off look like they are where the stickup bits should be also you can measure the spacing from the others.or how successful would be the option of manufacturing the two missing teeth and welding them in position.
(Particularly my welding!)
Shouldn't be too hard to do, the straight edges where it's broke off look like they are where the stickup bits should be also you can measure the spacing from the others.
Personally I'd get a washer that fits around that sunken bolt, weld a strip around 1/3 of the edge to get up out of the hole, then weld some flat to that to recreate the missing bit and then finally cut 4 slots in from the ends so you can insert the sticky-up-bits and weld them from the rear, dress it all off and bolt it in place. Couple of hours tops from start to finish.
I'll do you a diagram if it will make it easier to understand what I mean, but like I say a couple of hours should do it fine.
my dad had one exactly the same until I fitted ngk's then it was not so bad it was all down to following a sequence of starting 2 throttle pumps no throttle half choke and it was away every time until then we had to do the hot plugs trick
No probs mate, hope this helps....I think I know what you mean, but thanks a picture tells a thousand words, so I'd appreciate it.
It can't have been as bad as some of the 105E Angleboxes, I used to listen to them grinding over every morning when they were the repmobile. Some were OK, others would never go. One close to where I worked in those days would never start in the morning, he had to roll it down the slope every day, it would just churn over until the battery was flat. I always thought it was voltage drop to the coil as push it, it went straight away. Fords later fitted a ballast resister coil & that seemed to get over the problem on the Escorts & CortinasGlad it wasn't just me, my dad and I tried every combination of throttle, choke, pumping, hand over the air intake, you name it. DGE 440K, what a heap of sh** you were.
It can't have been as bad as some of the 105E Angleboxes, I used to listen to them grinding over every morning when they were the repmobile. Some were OK, others would never go. One close to where I worked in those days would never start in the morning, he had to roll it down the slope every day, it would just churn over until the battery was flat. I always thought it was voltage drop to the coil as push it, it went straight away. Fords later fitted a ballast resister coil & that seemed to get over the problem on the Escorts & Cortinas
There was a good reason why they were known as Dagenham DustbinsI think that the starting problems were caused by the crappy carb that was fitted to the Anglia. When I was an apprentice, we fitted a swan neck and a "straight from the breakers yard" 1 1/4" SU onto a workmate's 997 Anglia; this car had been a nightmare to start hot or cold. Not only did it start first time every time after our lunchtime mod, but it had better fuel economy and better acceleration -i.e. it had the acceleration of a slightly faster Thames barge.
Why has that section around the bolt hole got the little cut out in it ? the one to the right of the bolt head it looks like the cut is intentional.