Does anyone have a pair of 3-bearing oil jets they'd be prepared to part with? I'm half-way through a complete engine rebuild, and foolishly removed the slightly mangled oil jets before checking the availability of replacements. Needless to say they're out of stock!
If you can help, please let me know - I was hoping to have the Ruby back on the road for the weekend!
Alastair (Cornwall)

Re-building a Smiths Magmo type speedometer, basically swapping parts between my original semi functioning one and a very poor condition one.
So far got all except the milometer working but found the small brass gear that is driven from the worm drive (end of drive cable)
has teeth missing and is BER.
Looking back on old threads it appears these gears are now unobtainium.
'Googling' for similar 20 tooth brass gears does not come up with anything similar. Suspect plastic ones will not be up to the job, but
cannot find similar ones of these either !.
Gear is 20 tooth one, about 9MM diameter, 2MM thick, with a splined hole 4MM diameter. All measurements are approximate.

Anyone ever managed to get replacement gears, not counting removing from a U/S speedometer ?.
Well beyond my capabilites to cut a new gear on a lathe.

Yes I know, run it without the milometer, but it is nice to know how many miles I am doing having done what I thought was
a 30 mile trip which my wife told me was actually 50 miles !.

Martin, GM6VXB

From about 1 minute in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uimMwyCNJy8

Classic 750 Race Donnington  https://www.youtube.com/live/J2CE-hxQqQo from about 22.46 - but you have to fiddle about with the time line to find the start.

Hi the fuel tap on my chummy got very tight so I had it off and lapped it together with some tcut now its alot easier to turn but does not fully turn off I see new ones are availably and expensive any one got any tips to whats Happening?Thanks Jeff Blight

Good evening all, I am a comlete duffer where electrics are concerned and need some help. The switch on my 7 diintegrated and the only replacement I could get is one without the charging options - before I remove the many wires from the original switch can somone please explain what they work. I have diagram in a Pitman`s book but while the terminals have various codes allocated to them it doesn`t explain what they actually do, any help greatly appreciated.

Am installing headlights into Ruby Mk2 and am confused as to the wiring terminal connections. Each headlight has a pos, neg and earth leads at bulb end with spade end connectors which appear to all fit onto dip switch in the engine bay. Looking at the wiring diagram I cannot work out what goes where.

Not sure which dip switch terminal does what at the 3,6 and 9 oclock positions (viewed from engine bay); would really appreciate some guidance on how to wire it all up?

Does anyone currently sell the rubber channel that goes between the top of the scuttle and the curved bottom of Chummy windscreens?

Hi Everyone

I wonder if you can help?

I am just in the process of carrying out repairs on my Nippy chassis ahead of sending it for blasting.

Unfortunately my car didn't come with an exhaust or any brackets so I am just trying to work out which holes in the rear cross member are original and which have been added at a later date.

As I understand it the two diagonal holes are original and meant for an exhaust bracket, that leaves for oblong shaped hole on the bottom which I'm not sure about. Similarly there is another hole on the bottom rail which is a mystery. When I bought the car, this was used to hold a crude non original bracket, possibly for an exhaust. It is a rather clean cut hole so I was wondering if this might be original but perhaps intended for a petrol pipe or wiring bracket?

I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks

Matthew

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The Austin Seven Clubs' Association AGM was held on Tuesday 15th April. It was a very productive meeting.
 

A number of things were decided by the Clubs, namely:
 
1. Trade adverts for buying and selling cars will not be allowed in the Magazine.

2. Trade advertising rates will go up by 3% for 2026.

3. The treasurer’s budget for 2025 was approved.

4. The Magazine will increase in price from £2 to £2.05 (separate action on the implementation date of this has been emailed to all Club Secs).

5. Hugh Barnes was elected as Treasurer and Ahmed Abdel was elected as Webmaster, all other Officers were re-elected with the exception of Insurance Liaison Officer, a volunteer is still required to take on this role, although Nick Salmon has agreed to oversee it until that happens.

6. Advertisers will now be charged a fee so that they become Associate (Advertising) Members of the Association.

7. The Stanley Edge Memorial plaque vote was postponed to a future date.

8. Clubs agreed to donate £1250 to the Devon Club’s Young Driver Initiative.

Unconfirmed minute can be viewed here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/10vWe...sp=sharing