marktheherald

I've been using 1mm discs for some time, a quicker cut and greater accuracy. Like you, I was able to let in chassis repair sections that give an almost invisible repair... I get mine from Toolstation, £13 for a pack of 10.  

I put Saab 900 seats in the estate. Bit of a faff to fit, but v comfortable.  

G20 at my local festival of transport..

Please, please, please keep the Thread going...!

Yep, I've got the Moprod one as well. Also about 30 yrs old and still going strong!
(thank heavens for Google, I was missing the instructions and had recently forgotten the sequence of forming a double flare...Internet was my friend)

Quoted from bxbodger

Use a monodex if you want accuracy, hand achingly slow,  but accurate and with no distortion.

Hope this helps.....someone has welded where they shouldn't have...

Bit far away in Eastbourne.... Would have to collect this evening though, as I'm away tomorrow.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triu.....d:g:uIQAAOSwgApXATDF

a 'go to' tool in my box...

I recall dismantling a strap type shaft to find that the O-ring (part 4 on the Canley diagram) was non existent and had let water work it's way in with subsequent corrosion and wear... Swapped out to splined Vitesse item when I fitted overdrive.

Classic Fiat 600 and 500 had transverse front leaf spring...

Used to be able to get those fused ones at Halfords....Don't know if they still do them.

Quoted from Pete Lewis

check the diff  short output shaft has not sheared on on side ,  you cant see this as the shear point is inside the diff case  

jack car  one wheel up, put in gear to lock the prop   try to turn wheel , if its free  one has failed ,
Pete

it's a bit like putting a petrol engine into a steam engine and then asking "Do you like my steam engine?"
   1.13 mins in....Ugly thing   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=genH-wi5JmM

Sorry, thread drift.      Would always keep Triumph engines now but back in the day I fancied a Fiat twin-cam....

Over reading speedo maybe diff related. Maybe a higher ratio item fitted? (or would that under read...? (my brain hurts))

I wouldn't use 48 spoke wheels, I don't think they are strong enough. I had 60 spokes on my 15" wheels when I had my Midge. They replaced a used set of 48 spokes which felt a bit frail. I believe the 48 spokes were standard on 50's sports cars like the MGA etc.

I was given my ringbinder volume out of the blue by an old gentleman who saw my estate parked up near my workplace and dropped it in at the office. He said that my needs were now greater than his, as he had given up driving some years before...I gave him a contribution to a charity of his choice.

Quoted from A TR7 16V

The original workshop manual's in a number of parts, is it not? So which part does the hood?

Graham

Alton Towers?.....

I used to keep several of those gaskets when I had the proper 1500 manifold in my Midge.....For ever blowing   Eventually fitted a 1300 single pipe manifold and modified down pipe, problem solved.  I have continued that set up in my 1500 engined Herald.

I used to keep several of those gaskets when I had the proper 1500 manifold in my Midge.....For ever blowing   Eventually fitted a 1300 single pipe manifold and modified down pipe, problem solved.  I have continued that set up in my 1500 engined Herald.

Quoted from herald948

I agree, Mark, but I would add that this must be a very late (mid-1963-ish?) dash before that change to the small tach and speedo dash. I say that because of the "flush-mounted" switches and controls, as opposed to the earliest of the Vitesse 6 dashes, which featured the "overlay" dash with its beveled apertures for those switches and controls.

I had dished in mine... It's still there 15 years after I sold it...

I found Rover Nightwatch Blue to be close.

Check that you haven't got a damaged tyre... I had a bulge in an inner sidewall that gave this effect.