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.....Thanks, as ever, to you Bill - will take your hard-earned advice on board & pass it on to my pal........ Kind regards, Geoff.
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....Thanks for the link, Bill. Talking of links, if you have a moment to check the eBay link above in an earlier post, the intention is to fit the 'leg' in its entirety which, I assume, will mean no messing around with UJs - unless, of course, the one fitted to the replacement unit is defective...... Geoff.
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....Thanks Bill - I shall copy your kind response word-for-word & give it to my pal Andy who has been tasked with doing it as the old gal is my normal daily runabout.......
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......That's good, Richard, as I'll have to pay my professional pal to do it....I'll get him to change over the brake shoes etc. as they were new not so long ago...(Thanks for your reply...)
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...They're complete with drums & ironmongery mountings attached etc. etc., Pete......Thanks for the clarification. Geoff.
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...Thanks Pete & Bill for responding - still a bit confused though......do your comments mean that both the acquired driveshafts should be fitted or can I get away with just the defective offside - (they're 'handed' aren't they 'cos of the brackets so there is no question of fitting them the opposite way around...)..?? Sorry if I'm being completely thick or obtuse here....
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....Thanks very much, Bill - from a message from the vendor, I gather he's bought a couple of Triumphs from a deceased estate.....a 1500 Dolomite & a 13/60 Herald convertible, together with spare parts; so I assume these driveshafts to be 13/60..... I've won them so would guess that they both should be fitted, rather than just the offside one.....
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....They're the little babies, Andy - thanks so much for posting the link & for your comments. The only thing that rings a distant chord is that the diameter of the driveshaft, itself, changed..(they were beefed-up.) during the life of the 1200....(unless I'm imagining it...) Will get my bid in.....
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..I have a 'deceased' rear offside wheel bearing..(&, no doubt, a ruined driveshaft to go with it.. )...I'm just wondering whether it would be worth getting these..eBay no. 201424189136 - sorry perhaps someone with more idea than me could post the link.. My car is a late '64 Herald 1200 convertible registered early Feb. '65 - I have no idea whether they changed through the life of the cars & whether if these are '13/60' ones, for example, they would be interchangeable? Many thanks for any help & advice given..... Perhaps I should point out that the selfsame driveshaft & bearing was replaced new (from a reputable supplier) about 6yrs. ago.....& 17/18,000miles max.
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....My car is off the road, at the moment, making a noise from the rear off-side hub.....The annoying thing is that it is the same driveshaft & bearing that were replaced about 5yrs. & 15,000miles ago - said items being furnished by a reputable specialist...
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....My late '64 convertible hasn't got them on at the moment - I've had some in the house for years..(can't remember if they came with the car!) I got some nice 'ends' from that celebrated internet auction site but have no pieces that attach to the valances..... I think they should always be retained & that people shouldn't junk 'em & fit Vitesse ones instead, as to me they virtually define a Herald as I presume they are unique?? I certainly can't think of any other vehice fitted with them....
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....My late '64 convertible hasn't got them on at the moment - I've had some in the house for years..(can't remember if they came with the car!) I got some nice 'ends' from that celebrated internet auction site but have no pieces that attach to the valances..... I think they should always be retained & that people shouldn't junk 'em & fit Vitesse ones instead, as to me they virtually define a Herald as I presume they are unique?? I certainly can't think of any other vehice fitted with them....
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5820 wrote:Surely a second hand hood would have already been stretched so fitting will be different, some would say easier because all you have to do it match up the hole and hope it fits your body because you don't have any spare material :B second hand headers in good condition are like hens teeth l got a second hand one that need repairing, you can buy new ones think their around 200 quid last time l looked. ...£240 from Rimmers, last time I looked - add on carriage, VAT....+ a replacement seal that costs another twelve quid or so + paying my pro. pal to do it...(He's done 2 Herald hoods & an MX5, that I know of...) & it gets expensive....well for me, anyway, sadly! Am just about to treat her to a new fuel pump as it is....
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...£240 from Rimmers, last time I looked - add on carriage, VAT....+ a replacement seal that costs another twelve quid or so + paying my pro. pal to do it...(He's done 2 Herald hoods & an MX5, that I know of...) & it gets expensive....well for me, anyway, sadly! Am just about to treat her to a new fuel pump as it is....
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..Thanks Tony.....(If only we were still imperial!!...
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...Just trying to get this sorted.....Anybody know how much flexi-piping I need, length-wise to be on the safe-side? Just looking on the net at '1/4 o.d.' is confusing me a bit...(senility etc. probably.. ) Is there another equivalent description? Everything seems to be in this infernal foreign 'mm' these days!!..
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...If anyone has a header rail or maybe a complete hoodframe spare - I need one to get the replacement second-hand hood on that I've got...
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...If anyone has a header rail or maybe a complete hoodframe spare - I need one to get the replacement second-hand hood on that I've got...
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....I was browsing this week's 'Classic Car Weekly', today at the supermarket & in the auction section the author mentioned a low mileage Mk.II Escort..(I think the 'Popular')..4-door that as he put it, went for the 'baffling' sum of £15,750 ..(I think it was - certainly over 15k!) Apparently it had an 'unloved' engine bay! Puts it all in perspective really................The same paper featured the Mk.1 Twin-cam Escort & gave a concours valuation of £80k........ Makes that car seem good value.... ;)
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....I was browsing this week's 'Classic Car Weekly', today at the supermarket & in the auction section the author mentioned a low mileage Mk.II Escort..(I think the 'Popular')..4-door that as he put it, went for the 'baffling' sum of £15,750 ..(I think it was - certainly over 15k!) Apparently it had an 'unloved' engine bay! Puts it all in perspective really................The same paper featured the Mk.1 Twin-cam Escort & gave a concours valuation of £80k........ Makes that car seem good value....
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Brilliant! Thanks very much for the responses, chaps........
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....Am going to get the flexi parts of the fuel piping replaced as suspect it's been got at by the dreaded ethanol......What size fuel piping is it...8mm. etc? I believe it needs to be 'R6' or higher to be reasonably impervious to the effects? Oh, she's a late '64 1200 convertible, but running a 1296cc Dolomite engine. Am going to have the fuel pump replaced at the same time as it has had a propensity to be incontinent if car parked slightly downhill while leaning to the nearside. The inline filter is well overdue for replacement, as well. She's started to grind to a halt for no good reason, occasionally, but will restart after a little churning over & sometimes with the accelerator pedal floored.....
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1337 wrote: Again, I wouldn't C. Am a great believer in using cheap Wilcos/supermarket engine oil as a preservative - not used stuff like they used to do in the old days, 'cos it''s horrible, dirty & carcinogenic. Although I have been known to use used gear/diff. oil...Every now & again it gets tipped down seams, brushed onto surfaces as well as the 'nooks & crannies'......Everytime the cars go up on my pal's ramp at his unit, I go round the underside with a brush & some oil in an old beans tin, wherever there is a hint of surface rust, much to his disgust. as it drips onto the garage floor!!!
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..I'm with you, Bill & Mark - 1959 cars must be incredibly scarce, these days, & I feel it should be kept original for posterity..........They are rather more of a collectors car, perhaps, than the later, more numerous ones... (I wonder if a '59 barn-find Herald will ever fetch the 40k+ that a '59 Mini, in that condition, did at auction a couple of years, or so ago!!)
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...I have 175/70x13 tyres on 5" Dolomite or Spitfire 'steels' & have no issues at all - car is late '64 Herald 1200 convertible....with some 'tub-spread'!!