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What have you done today with your Austin Seven
andrew34ruby Offline
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26-02-2023, 09:29 PM
     

Somehow the Highland Coupe is just so right. Can we all have one please?
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26-02-2023, 09:30 PM
We would be very happy to build you one, Andrew...
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27-02-2023, 08:29 AM
Over the last few days, I have been taking the rear axle out of my Ruby. The good news: everything came apart easily and the axle is now on the floor. Further good news: not a single dribble of oil had leaked out onto the brakes. The less good news: the was no oil at all in the differential itself when I tried draining it. Perhaps it has congealed over the years of standing? I shall find out when I start to strip it down.

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27-02-2023, 12:43 PM
I have started giving the engine for my RK saloon a quick freshen up, new silicone gaskets and a head gasket as well as a good clean out as the oil that came out was like treakle 

   
   

Quite impressed by this engine stand I picked really simple but gets its off the bench for access
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02-03-2023, 10:40 AM
    still plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers & peppers today.
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02-03-2023, 11:45 AM
I followed a van yesterday on which, in the dirt, was written : " No tomatoes kept in this van overnight. "
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02-03-2023, 12:16 PM (This post was last modified: 02-03-2023, 12:18 PM by Ivor Hawkins.)
I saw exactly the same on a black transit in Towcester this morning!

Actually, talking of dirt, you could do the same with my Austin at the moment, I’ll have to get the bucket and sponge out...
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02-03-2023, 12:41 PM
(02-03-2023, 12:16 PM)Ivor Hawkins Wrote: I saw exactly the same on a black transit in Towcester this morning!

Actually, talking of dirt, you could do the same with my Austin at the moment, I’ll have to get the bucket and sponge out...

I washed my Seven last weekend as, once again, it looked as if I had been trialling it. Went to Wrexham and then on to Oswestry on Tuesday and it looks as if I hadn’t bothered. Fortunately it is not a lot of car to wash! So I shall have to do it again this weekend. Now I know what Sisyphus must have felt like.
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03-03-2023, 12:45 AM
(02-03-2023, 12:41 PM)David Stepney Wrote:
(02-03-2023, 12:16 PM)Ivor Hawkins Wrote: I saw exactly the same on a black transit in Towcester this morning!

Actually, talking of dirt, you could do the same with my Austin at the moment, I’ll have to get the bucket and sponge out...

I washed my Seven last weekend as, once again, it looked as if I had been trialling it. Went to Wrexham and then on to Oswestry on Tuesday and it looks as if I hadn’t bothered. Fortunately it is not a lot of car to wash! So I shall have to do it again this weekend. Now I know what Sisyphus must have felt like.

Sisyphus? Was he the contractor that painted the Forth rail bridge?

Today I took delivery of a Ruby steering wheel to repurpose into a mounting boss for a 50s wood rimmed job for my Speedex. I was intrigued that it had pressed steel spokes (not cast aluminium) that were rusty beyond redemption. I guess late Ruby or Big 7? It'll do just fine for what I need.
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03-03-2023, 10:16 AM
I tried another super market today to find they had loads of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, and a full veg rack and nobody taking any.
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