heraldcoupe

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HEBW if it started life attached to an autobox

Every day's a schoolday, I never knew that one. Never owned an automatic!

There's also the FRE suffix, usually used on engines supplied as Factory Reconditioned (Rebuilt?) Engines and stamped on a brass plate.

Cheers,
Bill

As an aside, if you have access to an Agricultural Merchant in your area, Phosphoric Acid can be bought cheaply as Milkstone Remover. This is intended for removing calcium deposits from milking machinery, it needs to be substantially diluted, at least 50:50, to bring it down to the strength of the best commercial rust removers. It also includes an indicator dye so you know when the solution has finished working.

I last paid around £20 for a gallon, but my supplier has recently switched to 25 litre containers for only a little more money. It means I have to take the car with me to collect though......

Cheers,
Bill.

Leaving parts immersed in phosphoric acid is not the same as applying it thinly to bare steel though.

Cheers,
Bill.

Looking along the wing from the back edge, there is a step where the wing meets the bonnet top, ie the wing sits out about 1/4" (roughly speaking from memory). If you retained the as-supplied reinforcement at the back edge, without modification, then the wing and top panel will be flush, making good alignment at the sides impossible.

Cheers,
Bill.

All current replacement wings include the vertical stiffener at the back edge, however it lacks the necessary inward kink at the top. This forces the wing inwards, causing a misalignment. Most of us unpick the flange and re-use the original stiffener.
The reproduction Herald 1200 wings are very poor, however being a simpler modification, there's less to go wrong with the Vitesse panel. I'd still opt for modifying the 13/60 wing, but that's personal choice.

Canley Classics make a drop-in floor panel of decent quality, another company makes a very poor panel of similar configuration. Given your requirements, I would opt for the Canley panel as the most straightforward option.
Contrary to popular belief, the full floor panels are not made on original tooling. Placing a Stanpart floor next to a reproduction reveals numerous differences (though the replacements are still very good),

Cheers,
Bill.

I don't have one to hand for test purposes, but most of the other Triumph (Smiths & Delaney) blower motors use permanent magnets.

Cheers,
Bill.

If it's got an alternator, the chances of it being positive earth are very small indeed. While there was a positive earth alternator kit offered as an official upgrade, they are very, very scarce. Anything likely to have been fitted in more recent times will have made a negative earth conversion essential. Likewise, if a modern stereo is fitted, it will be have to be insulated from the body (including the aerial) to work with a positive earth electrical system.

With a dynamo equipped vehicle there's little consequence to swapping polarities. The heater motor is the only item which is dependant on polarity. Being a centrifugal blower, it will still flow inthe same direction, but the vanes are optimised to blow mre efficiently in one direction than the other, so if spinning backwards, airflow is reduced,

Cheers,
Bill.

Corn snake?
Or something more worrying?