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Re: 1968 Lotus Elan +2

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:44 am
by olivier
many people say that it isn't worth rebuilding a Girling servo but I am rebuilding my + 2 as close as the original. I have already rebuilt all my brakes calipers with new pistons and all the brake lines are in place.
Thank you for the information for making a specific tool to dismantle the servo. I was thinking of a kind of tool we use to take off the oil filter.

Re: 1968 Lotus Elan +2

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:54 am
by Bigbaldybloke
This tool was to do with the internals, not taking the body apart, mine was the very early one with the ring of bolts around the end of the body that you undo to split the casing. Unfortunately when the car went off to be professionally rebuilt the company went bust and my car came back without a servo so I've had to retro fit a Lockheed one.

Re: 1968 Lotus Elan +2

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:12 pm
by types26/36
Bigbaldybloke wrote: From memory it was pretty straightforward and lasted for years. I think I needed to make some sort of tool by bending a coat hanger wire into a shape included in the seal kit instructions.


Probably the bent welding wire as per the instructions.

Re: 1968 Lotus Elan +2

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:54 pm
by Foxie
john.p.clegg wrote:Just 299 away from mine...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391746419380? ... 1555.l2649

John :wink:


John, so you are 50/0315 or 50/813 !

I have 50/0933, so how far away are you from that ! :)

Sean

Re: 1968 Lotus Elan +2

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:31 pm
by john.p.clegg
Sean

from Fleabay..

1968 Lotus Elan Plus2
Purchased 1997
50/0813
VWW 965F
Mot April 2018
Mileage approx 60,000

John :wink:

Re: 1968 Lotus Elan +2

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:45 pm
by Bigbaldybloke
Mines 50/0142 first registered November 1967 and bought by me in 1977. By then it had been fitted with a big valve engine, it's done around 50,000 miles now and been off the road since 1985.