| Tip : 1 | If you have a problem with one or both back brakes locking up unexpectedly check the shoes where the eccentric adjuster touches - it may have worn a little hollow where it should be straight and smooth. |
| Tip : 2 | If you find it impossible to get all the air out of the brake system - unbolt the front calipers and hold them in different positions whilst bleeding. Don’t allow the pistons to pop out! |
| Tip : 3 | If the steering box keeps on leaking its oil remove all the old oil and fill with Wynns Stop Leak for engines and gear boxes - right full up. If it still leaks then an “0” ring or seal is needed between the drop arm and casing. |
| Tip : 4 | If you let your car stand for long periods and then have trouble getting the carburettor full of petrol again - fit a hand bulb primer as used for outboards in the feedpipe to the pump. |
| Tip : 5 | The multi-purpose steering column switch ex N. S.U. Prinz can be hard to come by. A lowcost substitute that can be adapted, is the Citroen Club one. |
| Tip : 6 | If it is too expensive to have the brake wheel cylinders sleeved, try making your own hone. Cut 60mm. long slot in a 10mm. steel rod with a hacksaw. Wind a strip of 1000 grit waterpater around the rod with the end in the slot and rotate with electric drill or lathe, with lubrication. |
| Tip : 7 | If you are on your own and need to bleed the brakes, Use a 3 meter long clear plastic tube suspended from the ceiling. Fit lower end to the bleedscrew and open it. Pump the brake until the fluid is near the top and leave for 10 minutes. The air in the system should rise to the top. Then the fluid will reverse-flow to the master cylinder. Close bleeder when flow stops. |
| Tip : 8 | If you use your car for racing, then it can be made to go quicker around corners by putting a very small amount of negative camber and toe-in on the back axle. |
| Tip : 9 | The Flamingo backsuspension was specially designed to prevent the rightliand wheel spinning more than the left, on fast take-offs. This effect can be fine-tuned by changing the angle of the top arm on the righthand side. |
| Tip : 10 | If your Flamingo freezes you to death on cold winter days, you could try the small Smith’s heater that was fitted to a number of cars in 1962. It fits above the passenger’s feet and the inlet airpipe went forward across the crossmember where the bottom half of the cut-out is still seen on later cars. |
| Tip : 11 |
 The location of the chassis number on the Flamingo is arrowed here on the right-hand |
| Tip : 12 |
List of Flamingo spare
parts to be on the lookout for at scrap yards.
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