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DS Sassen also have the oil line washer, probably the same one as DF:
WasherRecommend you post a picture of the ‘NRV’?
Recommend you follow Peter’s advice on the valve guides unless you are *very very* happy you know what you’re doing. They’re an interference fit so outside of a machine shop the accepted method is to rig up a suitable press arrangement (no, not a valve spring compressor, usually a length of threaded bar, a spacer tube and some appropriate washers), put the head in an oven and press the guides out when the whole lot’s hot. They’re brittle things and don’t respond well to imprecise methods. Fitting the new ones is generally easier as you can freeze them beforehand and lubricate the holes. Given the amount of time in the oven and the price of energy, a machine shop is probably cheaper anyway!
It’s very easy to get it wrong and damage the sealing face where the valve stem seals fit.
You’ve then got to ream them as you may find some of them may be tight to fit a valve into. If the engine is run with tight valve guides you risk the guide overheating and ‘picking up’ with expensive consequences…
So basically, what Peter said.
Thanks Paul, those photos are brilliant 👍
Oh, and if you do have any more RHD pipework / engine bay photos then please do post them, every little helps and all that 👍
Thanks Paul, no it’s someone called Eddy. I’ll get on Aussiefrogs as you suggest, the SA DS factory isn’t an option though as they only do Facebook and I refuse to have a FB account (or Instagram) on principle.
Cheers again.
Sorry, mine’s 1969 not 1967!
Thanks as always Paul, yes that’s the assembly. The large pipe is the lowest one in your photo. I’m still gathering parts for mine in the hope that one day I will retire with enough life left in me to restore it. The pipes on mine are past their best, I saw a set on eBay but they’re all the same size – no large pipe.
So I contacted the chap, he bought them for his car but ended up getting the correct ones from Australia. His car is a ’67 manual with no power steering, mine’s a 67 BVH with power steering. I can only think it’s a later car thing.
I’m not really up to tracing pipework at present (lifting the bonnet was enough for me!) so can’t help there, sorry.
I can’t imagine many people will have this pipework and I also can’t imagine it’s easy to re-pipe one of the flange plates!Sorry, no, health still playing me up. Hope it goes well though.
Oh, and don’t bother trying to reuse the liner as it is. It’s probably bore wear that caused the rings to break in the first place.
Peter will be along soon with his liner removal advice, I’ve seen it on another thread. You might not like it 🤣
Not sure I got the last post right, try this one:
I was partly right, it was just the lower sections with the cutouts for the jacking points:
https://i.ibb.co/vC2HyWB6/20260617-145725-2.jpgIIRC the sill outer plates were plain on earlier cars but were changed for square patterned ones on later cars. Mine are plain and mine’s a 1969 UK car. I think the information about it is in the John Reynolds book somewhere, if I remember later I’ll have a look.
Dennis mentioned a bellhousing modification so may be mounting either the compressor or alternator somewhere down there. He was quite cagey though.
Was speaking to Dennis from Centreville a while back, he said he was designing an AC kit for the DS and it was near completion for commercial release. Haven’t heard anything since though.
It’s calibrated. If you need more off the middle you use it ‘as is’. More off the ends? Turn it round. Sorted 😁
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