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by Rod
Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:33 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Grease nipples
Replies: 7
Views: 31220

Re: Grease nipples

If the club can't supply for whatever reason Mike, they're 99.9% likely to be BSF thread.
If you're lucky your local engineering consumables supplier might have some he wants to get rid of at a nominal price
by Rod
Fri Oct 20, 2023 9:54 pm
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Grille badge
Replies: 17
Views: 76773

Re: Grille badge

Instead of a casting, if originality/Concours status isn’t an imperative, why not Laser/water jet cut the script from plate, and alter the threaded boss & screw securing configuration to a threaded stud (Loctited into the script), a loose spacer bushing and a nyloc nut?
by Rod
Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:54 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Water
Replies: 9
Views: 40417

Re: Water

Use a *very* small amount of fine valve grinding paste (or Brasso), Mike and lightly lap them in. Caution advised because you're lapping tapers and its easy to overdo it, to the extent that the plug sticks through the tap body too far and then you'll have other problems (don't ask...).
by Rod
Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:59 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Boot lid lock.
Replies: 4
Views: 25745

Re: Boot lid lock.

If you haven’t done so already try dribbling penetrant down the clearance between the lock tongue and the lock casing so it runs down straight onto the square bar and hopefully gravity takes where it needs to go? On my car there’s plenty of clearance there to shine a torch down and check your aim
by Rod
Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:56 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Boot lid lock.
Replies: 4
Views: 25745

Re: Boot lid lock.

Hi Roy, if your Windsor latch is the same arrangement as my contemporary Goodwood, the tee handle has a length of square bar on the end which fits into a matching square socket on the latch mechanism in the boot lid. It is a friction fit in the socket and often is seized in by corrosion. The only th...
by Rod
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Petrol tank sender
Replies: 10
Views: 65144

Re: Petrol tank sender

I'm pretty sure that there are the correct sender unit resistance values published somewhere on one of the Austin sites, Mike. One thing to watch is somewhere along the line with Smiths units, the resistance characteristic changed from low fuel level = high R, high fuel level = low R to the reverse ...
by Rod
Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:42 pm
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Petrol tank sender
Replies: 10
Views: 65144

Re: Petrol tank sender

Hello again, I assume the arm is missing from your sender? If no-one comes to your rescue, you might have to do it the hard way by measuring the distance from the float arm pivot point and the bottom of the tank and either using trigonometry/scale drawing or a mock up on the work bench to decide wha...
by Rod
Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Cambridge
Replies: 17
Views: 71868

Re: Cambridge

Good to hear, thanks for the feedback!
by Rod
Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:03 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Cambridge
Replies: 17
Views: 71868

Re: Cambridge

Hey Mike,
Yes, two connections. Two 1/4 inch Lucar( = spade) terminals or two screw terminals etc
It doesn't matter which way around you wire it.
All the Best,
Rod
by Rod
Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:25 am
Forum: Public Requests For Club Assistance
Topic: Cambridge
Replies: 17
Views: 71868

Re: Cambridge

Peter & Mike: No, the lamp is not part of the high-current circuit. It illuminates in response to the difference in voltage between the car power supply network downstream of the voltage regulator and the output voltage of the generator upstream of the voltage regulator(i.e. B+ vs Vgen in modern ter...