I'm going to use some A7W units with a pilot and was wondering about ditching the sidelight function entirely if I use 6V LED headlight units which could be run on 'dip' whenever the lights are on. (so that the pilot could be used for emergency indicator flasher when lights aren't on) 
Just want to make sure about the mechanism for reducing beam on the SM5 - is it controlled by putting the wiring into series, or was that the earlier unit? If the former, how can I best alter the switching to control a twin filament headlamp bulb?
thanks

There will be many Friends who will be saddened to hear that Bryan Norfolk has died. He was a contributor to this forum and very well known in A7 circles. 

Our thoughts and condolences are with him, Hazel, and their friends and family.

There will be a private funeral but it is possible that some sort of celebration of Bryan's life will take place in due course.

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any useful pictures or drawings of crank handles. Im trying to make a removable piece for a pressure fed distributor engine in a 1927 chummy. Thanks

Hi Gents and Ladies
Anyone know where I can get a PLC2 lighting/ignition switch.
Mine is damaged beyond repair.
Regards 
            Tim

Returning from a classic car show tonight, I started to move uphill from some traffic lights and there was a terrific bang and then the car would only move very slowly. I suspected a broken half shaft or a prop shaft coupling but managed to get a tow home? I jacked the back axle up and both wheels turn freely but when I turn them the prop shaft doesn't turn also if I turn the front prop shaft behind the gearbox the wheels don't turn. Too lat to carry on tonight but any ideas?








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On our '37 Ruby the fork which holds the aluminium brake-cable quadrant is threaded into the pivot pin which retains it. In order to adjust the cable I needed to remove the quadrant and screw in the fork a couple of extra turns -  horribly fiddly under the car especially as the split pin was seized in place. Is this a standard arrangement?

My earlier special has a simple wing nut on the back end of the fork for the adjustment. It seems much more satisfactory and I'm wondering why the "improvement" on later cars.

Peter.

could someone tell me how long a SWB silencer box is please?

I've got what I imagine is a Ruby box - 21.5" long, which will just about fit between the two chassis cross members. But is it better to have it cut down?

I'm running a Ruby manifold, so imagine I'm going to need to bend a Ruby front pipe a bit to get it through rather than under the front crossmember...

Hi folks

1927 Austin Chummy

Collect the engine after some work done, starter ring, clutch, bearings etc. I did leave the gearbox in situ when taking the engine out but now I find I cannot line it up properly with the gearbox to bolt them together. I have taken the gearbox out so I can match them up on the bench, which I have yet to complete. I am aware that there is a flat on the spline which should match exactly into the receiving hole in the clutch.
My question is can I reinsert the engine and gearbox back into the car as a unit?
Any other information would be helpful.

John B

Hi, has anybody got a remedy for a badly worn torque tube ball and socket other than changing the socket for a better one? Mine still has a lot of play even with the ring nut done up as far as possible. Has anybody tried machining the rear face of the socket to allow the ring nut to go in further?

Anglia Car Auctions are selling this Ihle Sports by private treaty:


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https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1017337

Not cheap, and not 1931 either (the Ihle Sports was introduced in February 1933 at the Berlin Autoshow), but where will you find another?