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Hi All
Being completely in awe of Charles’s engineering skills I’m a little hesitant to display my modest work over the last few days.
However, here goes…..two spacers and six extended registers/lugs so that I can fit 4 x 18 Longstones on the Special without them scraping the body to pieces. Next job is to fit extended studs to the bearing carriers.
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Cheers
Howard
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Not much wrong with those Howard!
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17-04-2025, 09:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-04-2025, 09:47 PM by Charles P.)
(17-04-2025, 06:09 PM)Howard Wright Wrote: Hi All
Being completely in awe of Charles’s engineering skills I’m a little hesitant to display my modest work over the last few days.
However, here goes…..two spacers and six extended registers/lugs so that I can fit 4 x 18 Longstones on the Special without them scraping the body to pieces. Next job is to fit extended studs to the bearing carriers.
Cheers
Howard
They look very good Howard.
Interested to hear how you get on.
I have 4 x18 Metzeler "K block" side car tyres on mine, which are pretty good but a smaller OD than the Longstones
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(17-04-2025, 06:09 PM)Howard Wright Wrote: Next job is to fit extended studs to the bearing carriers.
Do you need some longer wheel studs?
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Hi David
I have long fully threaded 3/8” bolts that I was going to weld to the back of the carrier and grind down for clearance.
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Howard
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18-04-2025, 08:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-04-2025, 08:12 AM by Steve Jones.)
Those spacers are exactly how I did it for my old trials special, Howard. Like you, I ground down the heads of some long 3/8" BSF bolts and welded them to the back of the bearing carriers.
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(18-04-2025, 08:11 AM)Steve Jones Wrote: Those spacers are exactly how I did it for my old trials special, Howard. Like you, I ground down the heads of some long 3/8" BSF bolts and welded them to the back of the bearing carriers.
Steve
What's more, we never had a wheel fall off!
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18-04-2025, 09:05 AM
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No we didn't did we. We did set it on fire once though, but that was nothing to with the wheels 
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Ironically, the fire incident helped us achieve our best ever result!
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What have I done today with my Austin Seven? Answer: gave it a good wash, as it was rather travel-stained. After that, I wnet over to see my friend Gerald and his wife, as it was her birthday today. Stayed for about an hour and then came home via 'The Bryntirion' pub, which used to be my 'local' until it changed hands late last year and was promptly gutted and has not long reopened having been completely refurbished. I wasn't going to stop, but outside the pub was parked a 3 litre Bentley, so I did. It turned out that the Bentley is owned by the chap who has bought and refurbished the pub, which rather explains the new motoring themed decor, but I didn't get to meet him.
Anyway, photos of my trundle (as we all like photos), taken with the primitive Kodak that lives in the car's glovebox:
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Outside Gerald's
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The Bentley
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The Bentley and Seven
(Note the early petrol pump outside the pub entrance!)
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