Miniliteman

NOS K&N filter arrived today. Let me know if you want it James and I will send you the total cost (incl. them other parts). Best start saving ... purchase costs, 3 manhours searching the internet, phone calls to the supplier, sales commission, RS tax 😜

And until recently you received a plane ticket to Rwanda as well 😲

Retailer here in the Netherlands. Had just the one left.

Who said they were Chinese? INA is INA Bearings from Germany a well known company for their quality parts.

It's your lucky day ... I found the last new one on the planet. Ordered it before someone else does. 😃

The seller of that one on ebay Germany ships to Ukraine an Belarus but not to Australia? Also he has a bad sellers rating have seen bad reports about him from some of my mates.

Have a used Motorcraft one here, plus the original box! Not K&N but new: https://www.burtonpower.com/air-filter-mk2-ford-escort-rs-capri-1-6gt-2-0-ohc-c3665.html

Mk2 for sale in Belgium. Although one could appreciate the exterior, colour coding the interior makes you want to throw up.

It could be worse, if she wanted an Austin Maxi 😩

Must have item for that car:

Owner must have ran out of pink paint as some parts are still unpainted.

Do you mean the fingers of the diaphragm? Modern clutches are bigger in diameter and longer fingers mean lesser force needed to operate the clutch.

Looked into that some time ago as I wondered about it too. The parts book and also the latest microfiche only list one version for the rear lights. But I noticed that only Altissimo right hand side rear lights had that odd bolt arrangement.

The hole in the backing for that special bolt is just 4 mm. Drill it out to 6 mm (carefully) and fit a 6 mm Allen bolt plus an M6 nut at the back of the cluster. Photo is of a black Allen bolt but you can get SS ones. Job done! Unless ofcourse you cannot sleep at night because you have an un-original and modified part on your car. 😲

Shaft must be 6 mm or maybe 1/4" . SS bolts and screws for rear lights are here: http://www.escortrs.co.uk/mk2e/mk2e_rearlightbolts.html http://www.escortrs.co.uk/mk2e/mk2e_rearclusterscrews.html

anymore = anywhere (bloody autocorrect)

You can get these almost anymore, not genuine Ford ofcourse. Measure the shaft dia then google "starlock ring" plus the diameter. About 10p each.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqoHvFYOMU

Will add a photo of the block with a yellow circle. If you look in the centre of that circle you see that the thread starts out of nowhere. It is the beginning of the helicoil.

Compared an M12 bolt, a 1/2" UNF bolt, a 1/2" UNC bolt and an oilpressureswitch with 1/4 NPT thread. Plus from all the above (measurements and photos) me thinks the block has had a NPT helicoil. If you fit one and the hole it goes into is a bit too small the helicoil will adapt to the hole and becomes a 1/4 NPT - (minus) thread. Fit an alloy (or soft metal) adapter into such a hole will deform the thread on the adapter. Check if it is a helicoil, if it is, take it out, rebore to proper diameter and fit a new 1/4 NPT helicoil.

That looks like a helicoil in the block. M12?

Then it might be that the thread is 1/2" UNF. Get a 1/2" UNF bolt and see if it fits into the block / adapter. https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/oil-pressure-gauge-t-piece-1-2unf-tp-1-2unf

Looking at the damaged thread of the old adaptor me thinks that some of that damaged thread is stuck into the thread of the block.

All 70's XFlow blocks have 1/4 NPT thread. Maybe the sensor you have is metric M14. (VDO has M14 x 1.5 sensors)

There were issues when you used Tapatalk for instance. But guess Vista will come around and solve any issues for you.