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Although saying that this nova has survived 6 house moves and 3 seriouse relationships. So maybe I like it a bit!

Thanks. Its a love hate relationship. I hate the car and it loves to cost me money

Excellent ... just let me know when you'd like to pick it up :thumbup:

That would be great Alistair - I've just been looking on line at the price of engine stands and yokes. I rebuilt my existing engine on the garage...

Phill, I've been looking through your thread again ... regardless of whether or not you get to the bottom of the problem before you start your strip...

Thanks Jim. All very re-assuring, and I agree re MOT station. I’ve been going to the same place for years, and it only does MOTs, not repairs. They...

Similar experience here too. Both Novas I have put through multiple MOTs had adjustable bias on braking via a bias bar. In fact on the first Nena MOT...

I like your idea of covering the valve Peter. If I put mine in the passenger footwell that would protect it from getting accidentally kicked. Hope...

Great to see progress and the sun shinning, wish I could say the same. Good point about the bake bias adjustment, I WAS going to put the knob for...

That's great Mike. I'll probably put it inside in the passenger footwell so that I can fit the body without disconnecting it, but it's also out of...

Looking forward to seeing the 2.1 Litre conversion, and Omex fuel injection :thumbup:

Good to see man :thumbup:

As Lauren says I don’t think you’ll have any problems with the brake bias adjusters inside ,on my tarmac rally car used to run everything inside a...

It is indeed David ... thanks! :thumbup:

good to see her out in the sunlight again, must feel like a real boost to the motivation levels

Thanks Dirk ... much appreciated! :thumbup:

Glade to see you are back working on your car. keep the updates coming. Dirk

Very helpful Lauren ... thanks! :thumbup: Thanks Phill. Yes, I hope so too! It's taking longer than I planned, but apart from the superfast...

Pleased to see you're back working on the car. Hopefully you'll make rapid progress this spring and summer and we'll soon see the body fitted back on...

Looking good in that early Spring sun Alistair :thumbup: The legislation on brake bias adjusters is draconian and dangerous, in my view, but as...

Thanks Mike - I think that advice (HID and LED lights retrofitted into lens/reflectors originally designed for filament bulbs) has been in place for...

No I never saw it running as it was already removed from the Camper van - this is why I'm keen to get a bellhousing to try running it before I take...

As far as I know it's just the splines on the type 4 clutch plate that are different - so I need to substitute the type 4 clutch with a type 1 clutch...

And you have to mess around with clutch parts if I remember rightly - was it a type 3 pressure plate (and one flywheel or the other)? It was nearly...

Phill, Did you get a chance to see the engine running, or was the video taken by the seller? I was thinking that if you hadn't actually seen it...

I've not touched my Nova since July last year. Just 'stuff' going on, some of which is now dealt with, and other things which are still ongoing. ...

I did just as you have suggested and it's quite clear there are no sticking valves or signs of combustion getting into the valve cover area which...

I echo what Peter has said. You know you are going to strip it anyway, and a top end noise will not always show in a compression test. To start,...

When I rebuilt my Beetle engine I had it in and out of the car three times before I had it working properly. For that reason alone I think it would...

You know there is a problem, so just go for it, if you can buy or borrow an engine stand it will make light work of ¡stripping it down, All VW...