smcapstick
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They didn't have liners and a few other bits. It was a cheaper version of the engine.
Classics Earning their keep.
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crofter 65
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They do have liners just that they are lipless and have to be pressed in then finished, a bit of a pain when reconditioning the engine.
Vincent
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Our 35 has a dexta block but all the other bits are from the original engine. There is also no lift pump on it as there is no where to put it, and it runs well. If I'm at my dad's tonight I will get a picture of it.
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
I thought the dexta had pneumatic governed injection pump and deemed not as good as the cav on mf
smcapstick
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mikep
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- Arse end of Surrey, UK
The only thing that made those barstewards start easy was easy start and then they often took two or three goes. Heaps of total poo made the P3 look good even though that shook the sh!t out of you it started well and pulled well.
Wasn't it a 3.144 instead of a 3.152 in a dexta
multi power
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Rubbish
mikep
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sorry but they were awful, maybe with rose tinted glasses and nostalgia you can say they were not too bad but even in their day they had a bad name. The 3 cylinder saved them as you could start it any time anywhere. compare the 4 cylinder to an international of the time eg b275 or b414 and the engines were as i said awful.
smcapstick
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Better than a team of horses.
mikep
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- Arse end of Surrey, UK
true you had to be up a 5 to get a team ready for 7 with the fergy it was 5.30
smcapstick
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...and you could eat the horse if it died!true you had to be up a 5 to get a team ready for 7 with the fergy it was 5.30
ap7610
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There was, and still is a good few 4cyls about here, some where total pigs to start but the clients that owned them wouldn't have been easy got going either, any that was well looked about, eg terminals, battery's, heater plugs, earths etc seemed to do ok, some as I said before got faster starter and there was something else that was done to the head , to lower the compression I think that left them easier started to, they did piles of work, people had to work with what they had.
multi power
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Mine always starts, as do plenty of others I know of
DeeGee
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- North East Wales
Yes I think you are right about the Dexta; but the New Performance Super Dextas put out 44.5 bhp which was identical to the 35X/135 so maybe that model of 1963/4 did have the 152 engine?
All the Fordson Perkins engines were infinitely better than those gutless clatterbox Ford 2000 and 3000 models that came in 1964!
crofter 65
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F 144 in the Dexta F152 in the Super Dexta.
Tha Ulsterscot
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Dad bought the first red & grey 4 cylinder sold by our local agents, and it was easy started till the day it was replaced with a 3. Next door neighbour got one a few months later, and it was never a good starter. A mate did up a gold belly in the late nineties and it never needs heated. It could sit for months and go with the first turn of the key. If they were set up properly, they were no trouble. I have me tin hat on. LOL.