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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Looking for a Shelley 12DL jack for my Ace. Any leads out there?

« on: March 21, 2024, 11:40:03 »

They do come up on e bay from time to time.

Also there are other very similar period bottle jacks. The web site www.classic-British-car-jacks.uk has details.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Are early AC engined Ace's gearboxes identical to 2 litre's ones

« on: March 21, 2024, 11:33:57 »

Yes, I believe that the Moss gearboxes are the same but the Ace had a hydraulically operated clutch.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Fuel Pump location AC Engine

« on: August 02, 2023, 15:43:57 »

For what it’s worth AEX146 has the single SU pump which was bought from Burlen. It is attached to the rear bulkhead and seems to work ok. See photo.
My car also tends to overfuelling and needs adjustment of the carbs.
Regards,
Ben

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General Discussion / Thanks to John Spencer

« on: February 08, 2023, 10:07:55 »

Thank you John for last night’s interesting and enjoyable presentation “AC Cars Around Thames Ditton”. The presentation was done in conjunction with the local history society and was very well attended.

Thank you also for your continued contributions to ACtion which I always look forward to reading.

Kind regards,
Ben Morgan

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: CLB engine "WT" Suffix

« on: January 11, 2023, 15:44:36 »

Eddie,
When this subject came up before the suggested answer was that WT might stand for Wellworthy which was a piston manufacturer originally based in Lymington. The company merged with other British piston/ piston ring specialists into  Associated Engineering Group in the late 1940s.

Regards,
Ben

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: How many horns in an AC Aceca? one or two?

« on: December 27, 2022, 10:06:20 »

My Ace also has Low and High tone horns. I think they are Lucas WT614s.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Aceca Bristol tool kit and jack

« on: December 27, 2022, 10:03:12 »

The web site www.classic-British-car-jacks.uk has information on which jacks went with which cars.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Spare wheel retaining nut

« on: December 27, 2022, 09:58:21 »

Finish Line Accessories in California used to have them.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: AC Ace for sale

« on: June 16, 2022, 15:55:52 »

It will be interesting to see what this project sells for relative to “the mortal remains” of RS 5032 which sold recently in the U.K. The Ford engined Ace is much rarer and had its original engine but there seems to be more of this one.

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / L482

« on: June 12, 2022, 20:05:43 »

Very nice looking 1936 AC16/70 L482 has just sold at auction for £37k.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: AC Ace Hood Frame

« on: May 25, 2022, 10:21:06 »

Two possible sources are:
Europa Spares and Brasscraft (www.brasscraft.co.uk)

Regards,
Ben Morgan

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Brake adjuster spanner and bleeder tools

« on: November 20, 2021, 18:31:02 »

Luke,
I’d like to reconfirm my order for both items.

Address for delivery is:
Flat 8
28 Elm Park Gardens
London
SW10 9NZ

Happy to pay by bank transfer, PayPal or cheque

Thank you,
Ben

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / AE 528

« on: November 19, 2021, 16:10:35 »

For information:
Aceca AE528 with engine CL2206 sold at auction this week for £48938, inc fees. The car is a half finished project. From the photographs it looks as though the bodywork and chassis have been done but the engine needs to be rebuilt and all fitting up, electrics, interior etc is still to be done.

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: Brake adjuster spanner and bleeder tools

« on: November 19, 2021, 15:59:02 »

Luke,
Thanks for the posting the photos. It looks good.
Ben

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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Re: 1 1/4 inlet manifolds for ac engine

« on: November 02, 2021, 17:45:03 »

Dear Gary,

Apologies for getting your name wrong and yes I did buy the auxiliary carb body from the same e bay seller.

I’ll need to find the other bits before having a complete auxiliary carb but I thought the body at £32 was a good start.

Ben