I have a lucas vacuum wiper and purchased an arm from one of the A7 suppliers but I can not get it tight on the spindle, possibly a worn spindle or lose fitting arm but both look ok.  Does any one have a fix to get it tight on the spindle?

Also the suppliers only stock one type of arm were they all the same for the all A7 cars over the ages or is the one curently stocked the only one Austin used?  

I do have a couple of the vacuum wipers with differnt spindles,

One with a small hole in the spindle which the arm hooks into and uses a spring to retain the arm, but the arm I have is worn out.
One with two notches in the spindle, not sure how that one worked.
One with a half round notch which takes a screw fixing but the arm with the fixing won't fit the car as it makes the spindle to short.

Any thoughts are these wipers of other random non A7 cars?

Hi does anyone have any knowledge of the history of “Emily” 1936 Ruby EPG 614. I have viewed her as she is for sale, but I am a newbie to the Seven world. I know that she has been refurbished and does not bear her original engine number. I understand that she was owned by a Seaford gentleman until December 2017, but would be interested to know of the condition she was in before sale. Further, I intend to visit the Senlac club this month and join up, but is there anyone that could help me with decision making? Maybe even visit the car with me near Lewes, lunch included of course? Hope I am not asking too much.

Recently I returned from touring in France, Belgium, and Holland in the MGA. On arrival back at Dover on the ferry, the battery was dead - not clever when you are right at the head of the two queues of vehicles! When finally I got a jump start the engine was running like a pig and eventually the car expired on the bridge out of the port, going up to the A2. I couldn't get going and with darkness falling, cold wind blowing, and rain coming down, I chickened out and called RH for recovery. Their agent was super-helpful and I was picked up within 45 minutes and transported back to Hertfordshire. I was phoned by an RH agent an hour or so after my intial call to check that I had indeed been picked up OK.

I marvel at the value we get from RH and whilst I know there were some issues for the last Eurotour etc, my latest experience was nothing but positive. Well done RH!

Is anyone using Automatic Transmission fluid in their gearbox, if you are what are your longterm experiences of doing so?

Good afternoon all. Is the throttle cross shaft on a 1928/29 car straight or bent rather like a hump backed bridge?

Regards from the creative county - Staffordshire

Stuart

Hello All,
just fitting ht Allen screws to con rods.Do the allen screws need a washer under them.Using locktite as well

Hi all,

One for the boffins maybe.

I’m wondering if anyone knows the technical reason why on the front of the 1”1/8” crankshaft there is one roller and one ball bearing?  I’m not looking to do anything different just looking to understand what roll (pardon the pun) each different type of bearing is doing at this location.  What would happen if you used two rollers or two balls?

Thanks,

Steve

Hi All,

On my Ulster rep, the filter was installed sideways(?) from the head. Then it was installed(not by me) from the bolt holding the oil filler in. From there the lines went from the rear of the crankcase, through the filter, then to the front of the crankcase. Chris Gould's book on building replica Ulsters, suggests putting the spin on filter(a Morris Minor 1000 add on)on the engine side of the passenger footwell. I agree it gets  the filter out of the way, but the flexible oil lines then have much further to go, from the NS to the OS of the crankcase for the out to the in on the filter, then to the intake on the front of the crankcase. Am I missing something or does this increase by a lot, the amount of flexible oil line required?

Erich in Seattle

I have 2 new boxed oil lip seals labeled 9934  CR services (an SKF company). It is 1 X 1.624 X 0.25 inch (25.4mm X 41.25mm X6.35mm)  I cant remember where I got them from or what they are for........however I suspect they may be for the back axle internal seals to replace the half shaft felt seals.  Can anyone shed any light in this?  I have finished doing an axle total refurbish and seem to remember the lip seals I used were a slightly different size  (1938/39 heavy axle.) so what were these for??? maybe the earlier axle casing?

Dennis

This thread started back in 2013 - here:  http://pub25.bravenet.com/forum/static/s...=show&cp=1


Photobucket appear to be allowing us to see photos again, thank goodness I didn't shut my account or delete the images.

Progress on the car has been very slow indeed (last update was 2016) due to me working on other people's cars instead. Nic Wiggins has worked away in the background repairing and restoring the windscreen, results of which can be seen below, awesome work for which I am very grateful.

Today. however, I was able to bring it out of storage and get things ready for the body to be mounted on the frame properly later this week...

I assembled the radiator into the cowl, fitted the cow horns, flitch plates and wing supports, the body was then placed into position and needs to come back about 2.5 inches.