Snetterton/Hethel on Saturday- who's going?

[Enright]

Neil - good luck with getting 3rd sorted.

Thanks - half done.
It turned out to be a broken circlip at the lever end of the LH cable.
Now if I can just find another in the junkheap of mine and fit it in time, everything will be fine...

[Enright]

...except that I can't, so it isn't.
Anybody got any ideas of who might be open on a Saturday afternoon, who might sell honking great 39mm OD x 21mm ID circlips?
Because I'm totally stuffed without one.

[dapinky]

Just been out to check my Halfords 'selection box' - it doesn't go that big

Can you bodge together a washer held in place with some locking wire?????

[Enright]

Good thought but I don't think I've even got any washers that size. However one of those would be easier to pick up so I'll have a go, thanks.

[Specky]

Lotus used a couple of varients of circlip, one style was wire the other a flat metal circlip...

I've got pictures of how to undertake a bodge a repair, but I'm a bit busy, but here's the gen in a nutshell

remove cable

remove gearbox bracket

supperglue the cracked cable housing... when it cracks it causes the circlip to fall off

put the cable through the gearbox bracket, find a clip...hose clip etc , anything clippy...

then use a load of aluminum putty over the whole lot, make sure the cable has room to travel back and forth thru the putty and will still lock on the back

wait several hours for curing and refit the cable from the front of the engine...

I'll find the pics and do a proper write up soon

Mine held for months until my AB's arrived

TTFN

[rip]

your cars show mine up a bit though

No way, dude! We all see the faults in our own cars more easily than others do.
I hope you liked the crowd.