Building my first Austin Seven car

[Ruairidh Dunford]

We have decided to work on the block and the pistons today so after I came back from selling Poppies with the guides I used a special tool to push a tube into the block for the valve.

   

because I had bashed the tube I needed to make it round again with a reamer.

   

We used blue to check the valve was touching all around.

   

It wasn't so we had to cut around it.

   

and then put paste on it and used a dril to turn the tool to help it grind

   

then we used the blue again and it was good all the way around. We had to do it to all the others and some took ages.

Then we turned it round and put the brass guides in we had to make sure they were really straight into each other.

   

Then we fitted the followers and some of them were tight so we tapped them to settle them and eventually they all moved smoothly. I then had to tuen them round unscrew and screw them all up again.

   

Then put the springs in