What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Steve Jones]

Grandson Dan finally made it here last night and today we finished preparing the Trials Car for him to use on the Lakes next weekend and the Cotswold the weekend after. After all the usual things he fitted his Lambda Sensor to the exhaust and off we went to find a straight, rising, bit of road to try it out on. Result, very weak mid and high range. Doing his magic with the needle we progressively got the reading to the desired 0.89 pretty much all the way through the rev range. The difference in the car was amazing. It's always gone pretty well but it's so, so much better now. An hour and a half very well spent. Once back home Dan's mate/bouncer arrived and whisked the car away in his Sprinter for it's trialling holiday. Will I ever see it again??

What to do then? The new rear axle for the Ulster's ready and waiting so we put the car up on the stands and set too. My target was to get the axles swapped over before Christmas. With two of us working on it, apart from re-connecting the brake cables and the dampers (and remembering to put some oil in it) it's done already. Might get a chance to try it up the road tomorrow or Monday.

All together, a very productive day

Steve