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Thank you one and all . We had a nice evening in, watching the tv with a nice steak and a few bottles of wine .

Koolvin Sweetooth Gallom Thank you lads for the best wishes for to-day . And i am greateful to you all .

I use a very very fine wire wool to clean the screen and other glass on the car when need be .

White spirits on the screen on lint fee cloth will remove it . Fabsil is good on canvas tents but for car hood when it eains it bleeds if it not dry .

And what about the part thats leaking fuel where is it on your engine ? any pictures of it

millhouse can you post a picture,, if it is possible .I have another part in mind to you

There might be other problems i have never ever known this part fail .If it dose,then fuel escapes from small tube from the end that goes in to the rockerbox. I would have checked all the fuses along with vacuum lines and earth points before you spend hard earned cash .Hope your idea of it...

Might be helpfull if you told us what engine you have . Do this test first- take off the air filter box and gently push down the throttle plate .When you do this , the plate should return to its normal possision as you let it go .Thats if you have fuel in there it will return .If no fuel...

Listen first.. is the fuel in the pipe that comes of the rear of the regulator .

There is ,,but second hand one are anything from £150 to £250 each .What make you think there is no fuel in there ?You dont find fuel exiting that small bore pipe ..And if there is fuel coming out of the small bore pipe then the regulator is toast

Have you never owned an old car .Side jacks are prone to fail .Jacking points inside the sill of the W124 is built like the London bridge and better than any car on the road to jack up . But the face of the sill around the jacking hole do happen to corrode . From the day i had my W124 i...

One day many moons ago i went to fill up at our local petrol station . I have seen cars for sale on there before , but very few . This was in the days that every garage would have a woman, or a man , to fill up your tank . I saw this Packard for sale .And i love old yank cars .So i went...

Thank you Mr Greedy .

All you need is a new barrel and key,the inside will be ok .Or go auto remote central locking and use on key fob .

Rubyred. Thats the same reason i had my removable star .I had to take the original star off every October each year to cover the car over and it was in the way . .And the star base was getting damaged doing this , so went for the removable star .