Austin Ten Drivers Club

I'm keeping this in mind for the future. I was under the Goodwood the other day doing a quick 1/2 yearly look-over/grease (pre-WOF inspection) and also noted play in my spring eye bushes. The inspector didn't, he was busy admiring the wooden spacers a PO had put in the running board mountings. The c...

Chiming in late Gary, leaf spring makers (like Bellamy & East or Archers') from past experience appear to have access to a variety of ready-made eye bushes of the rubber top hat/solid metal/silentbloc type which might save you some lathe time. Also worth leafing through the Nolathane catalogue for s...

If I were in your shoes Gary, I would be very tempted to ditch the threaded technology, unless you're a stickler for originality, and either look at rubber bushings (either bonded into a steel sleeve like the OE silentbloc or two piece top hat ones like more modern cars) and fabricated plain pins. E...

Peter C./Peter W. yes, Austin publication 1785 (FRA Goodwood 'List of Spare parts') has a page headed "Springs With Screw type Shackle Pins for Overseas" . I don't believe I have ever seen any UK import (of any make) of this era with anything but screw type shackle pins. Not sure why the Empire miss...

Try the starter motor first, *if its like the later 1930s units*, the Lucas trademark, the Lucas part number number, voltage and direction of rotation ( the last also important if you have a collection of parts which may or may not belong together) are stamped in the housing on the mounting flange s...

Hey Daren, lots of questions (not surprising if you have a basket case). Don't know what part of the world you are in, but my two cents worth would be: a) join the Austin Ten drivers Club which gives you more opportunities to ask questions and (get the specific answers you're looking for) on the mem...

Looking back, seemingly all mass produced UK makes of the era only ever fitted air cleaners to 'Export' models (?). Ditto 4-blade cooling fans and oversized radiators, almost as if 'Export' was short hand for 'desert'. I guess they were hedging their bets. Although a lot of US models from the 20s an...

When you say "it doesn't seem to work at all now" do you mean it won't declutch as in the pedal depresses but the clutch wont release? If this is the case I would suspect the clutch plate is sticking on one or both of the lined plates (I think this model has the plain center plate clutch?) or if the...

Peter: FRA series Goodwood (sorry, should've said in the original post). The radiator overflow pipe terminates at a banjo fitting on the top radiator tank close to the filler cap instead of being terminated as a standpipe inside the top tank. If you remove the banjo securing screw there's a spherica...

Just enquiring as to whether any members have seen a functional one of these things which seem to have been part of the equipment on later model radiators? They look a lot like a ball check valve (possibly using a brass ball), judging by what's left on my car, but was the ball originally lightly spr...