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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Roger - 14-06-2021

Good morning Graham, I believe I have changed it to Public from Private now  Confused

Roger

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Eddamoo - 14-06-2021

Thanks RR!  Ahh ok our car must be missing that rather important part!  Thankfully my dad is a retired sheet metal worker so I'm sure he could fab one up!  Ill try to find a picture.

I did check the needle and with finger pressure it did hold the fuel back (despite having a good 2mm of play when fully depressed), but i suppose the float may not excerpt as much pressure as a finger?  

We checked the float and it didn't seem porous - there was no fuel sloshing in it.  The fuel was dripping from the throttle opening and not the rim of the float chamber however - i would assume this would be the leak point if the float/shutoff was faulty?

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Graham Barker - 14-06-2021

Yes, Roger, the video played for me. 
I am very envious that you have a local route where you can run for 8 minutes before meeting another vehicle.  However, I did notice that horses and sheep on the road cramped your style temporarily. 
It was a wise move to pull over and stop the motor to avoid frightening the horses. 
Its years since I heard a motorist sound the horn approaching blind bends. Good idea, though, considering the poor braking on a Seven.
Thanks for sharing, 
Graham,

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - graham - 14-06-2021

With reference to the dripping 26va carb, I too suffered from this intermittent problem. A search through previous posts found several possible causes and remedies, none of which were 100% successful in my case. My car has a scuttle tank with fuel pump and I reasoned that the force provided by the float on the needle valve was borderline in opposing the force generated from the pressure in the fuel line. My solution was to fit a needle valve with a smaller seating orifice, 1.3mm instead of the standard 1.5mm, thus reducing the opening force acting on the needle valve. This has cured the problem completely.

Graham

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 15-06-2021

Eddamoo
Check your private messages. I have sent you some pics.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - circeonya@hotmail.com - 15-06-2021

I obtained an MGB some 30 years ago, at 100KPH one carby would flood, below that speed no problem. Finger testing of the needle it was fine, but I replaced the needle and seat anyway. Still got the car and never had the problem again.
I can understand the float may have got a jiggle up with the vibration and perhaps they do anyway, but why a needle wold be affected I dunno.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - "Slack Alice" Simon - 16-06-2021

I found that a 50 - 50 mixture of a "fast drying solvent" (the kind used to clean switches) and old engine oil is sprayable from a bathroom cleaner type hand sprayer.

So my rear springs are no longer red rusty.

It will get used for underbody protection when time allows.

And just for once I remembered to protect the driveway from oil drips. Big Grin

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Eddamoo - 16-06-2021

Thanks for the feedback on the flooding everyone. Will be sure to look for a needle Smile

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - jansens - 17-06-2021

Hi Roger, nice film thanks. Was interesting seeing some of the roads with tall hedges either side. I have been reading lots of Arthur Machen lately and protagonists in his books are always off vaguely wandering down country lanes with great hedges so they don't know what the surrounding countryside looks like. Now I see what he was talking about!

Simon

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bob Culver - 18-06-2021

Hi Simon
 I visited south England about 10 years ago and was intrigued by the roads. Avoided motorways. Many of the secondary roads less modern than main roads here. I guess they more restricted by expensive land, old titles, established stone walls etc.. The back roads of Devon were a surprise, some basically one lane with passing bays and unsealed . Some of the hedges concealed stone walls. I have read that the roads are sunken due the dust blowing away over centuries. Many roads here were surveyed in late 19th century when land had little value so the designated land was wide. Many small rural towns have main streets over 4 lanes wide; folklore has it to enable a bullock team to turn around.
When in my teens I met an older guy who had toured much of the minor roads UK in a Seven. He reckoned his concentration was so focussed on what might appear around the next blind corner that he did not see much of England. As a boy I had a school journal of my fathers; old when he had it about 1920. Had a Morris Oxford with family in Sunday best touring Kent. Featured the hop dry houses. When cutting through a back road I was intrigued to see the very same.
Too many now travel using satnav. Dont really know where they are or been and miss much of interest.