As a newbie with an Ulster Rep, I have found a few things that should be there but are not, including the screw that fits between the bushing on the dizzy. I also have found a threaded hole on the OS rear of the 3 speed box. What is this for and should there be something there?
(22-06-2018, 04:09 PM)Erich Wrote: I also have found a threaded hole on the OS rear of the 3 speed box. What is this for and should there be something there?
Erich in Seattle
Your gearbox is from an earlier car Erich - that hole takes the spigot for the uncoupled handbrake ratchet.
22-06-2018, 04:31 PM (This post was last modified: 22-06-2018, 04:31 PM by AustinWood.)
The 1/2" BSF hole in the gearbox is for the handbrake ratchet anchor as used on split braked cars. The handbrake with coupled brakes is completely different. Perhaps your special has a redesigned linkage too.
I don't know what dizzy hole you are referring to. Oiler perhaps?
22-06-2018, 04:39 PM (This post was last modified: 22-06-2018, 04:55 PM by Erich.)
Thank you Ruairidh and Jim. I was afraid I might have been a missing a screw that anchored the end of a shaft.
Jim, the hole on the dizzy I was referring to, is the one that is on the dynamo end helps to hold the dizzy by being between the two bushings on the dizzy.
If the distributer is linked to the ADVANCE Retard on the steering column, then it has to rotate without becoming unmeshed from its drive gear. A small screw (C35A005) about 2BA size stops the distributer from popping out, but allows rotation. If you don't have the ADV/RET, then the distributer is locked in position by a 1/4 " bolt (C35A006)
(22-06-2018, 06:39 PM)Erich Wrote: Thank you, Bob. I have a manual retard/advance. Think I had heard that the screw has a spring on it as well.
Erich in Seattle
There should be a stepped bolt (or is it a setscrew?) with a plain shank 5/16" diameter I think just under the head and a lower 1/4" BSF portion that fixes it into the body. On the plain portion there should be a spring washer and plain washer above the clamp piece, to provide some stiffness for the manual advance/retard system. I have looked at the parts lists for 1933/4 and they all show the earlier distributor of 1930/31 pattern and do not show the system I have described. Perhaps someone else can find an illustration in one of the standard works.
Robert Leigh
Erich
Looks like you could have quite a lot of metal turned off the circumference of that massive universal joint.......save a lot of weight on a rotating part.