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  1. Ferraridoc

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  2. simon klein

    simon klein Two Time F1 World Champ
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  3. simon klein

    simon klein Two Time F1 World Champ
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    Wondering if it's one of the 2 that live in Tamworth.
     
  4. FazzerPorscheman

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    I actually thought it looked purposeful.
     
  5. Ferraridoc

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    NOCWYT :p
     
  6. Ferraridoc

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    The purpose is to improve cooling. This could have been achieved without drilling holes in the bumper and bonnet. The rear scoops are "racey", so they're OK!
     
  7. moretti

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    get your own jokes :p
     
  8. Ferraridoc

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    I knew it would either you or PP
     
  9. moretti

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    We aim to please :p
     
  10. Ferraridoc

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    Have you been talking to Carl?
     
  11. moretti

    moretti Five Time F1 World Champ
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    No, why ?

    You home this weekend ?
     
  12. IanB

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    simon klein Two Time F1 World Champ
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    Bummer,at least you got the weekend racing though.
    Think that may have exacerbated what you have there ^^^^^?
     
  14. Ferraridoc

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    Tin of chemiweld?
     
  15. IanB

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    After a little internet research, I'm going to try a Nulon sealer. If the leak doesn't stop, it's tear-down time.
     
  16. IanB

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    btw the DFX doesn't have a head gasket as such, more like a steel shim. The oil and water ways are sealed by o-rings and it doesn't take much overheating to melt the outboard ones on the exhaust side of the heads.
     
  17. FazzerPorscheman

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    I’ve heard you often seal things by their ring.

    NTTAWWT
     
  18. PAP 348

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    Oh, dear me. :oops:
     
  19. Ferraridoc

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    Blown a seal? :eek:
     
  20. Ferraridoc

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    Targa Tasmania cancelled for 2020
     
  21. simon klein

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    PUCK!!
     
  22. wrxmike

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    Not surprised to hear that.
     
  23. IanB

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    A mystery solved...

    I couldn't work out why the car snapped on me in turn 4 in the last race and was jammed in 2nd gear when I tried to get going again.

    Took the rear cover off today, found the input shaft nut hanging off, only the cover was keeping it on the shaft. This meant that the shaft could move back and forth by about a quarter of an inch, enough to engage 2 gears at once. Sure enough, when I pulled the cluster out, there was damage on the face of 2nd gear, where it had jammed with 1st gear on the input shaft. So when I downshifted to 2nd for the corner, two gears engaged and the gearbox locked up and around I went.

    I made sure the nut was fuchsing tight when I put it back together :)

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  24. Ferraridoc

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    Surely something that critical would have a lock tab?
     
  25. simon klein

    simon klein Two Time F1 World Champ
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    He's told you once if not several times....................don't call him Shirley...

    But yep you'd have thought so!
     

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