Good and Faithful Frazer Nash, Good and Faithful Anzani

do we move the spigot bearing carrier backwards?

so theres simething not right - not sure why it doesn't all fit.... this is a follow on from the previous blog-  the spigot & bearing don't engage in the spigot bearing carrier housing... 

1.  could shorten the posts on the front clutch plate (the ones that the clutch straps are mounted on - straps bent in previous post) 

2. could move the spigot carrier backwards

3.  redo the spigot /prop....

been looking at the dimensions - in discussion the favourite is to machine a stepped washer behind the spigot carrier but i'm not sure if that won't shift the clutch into the cross shafts- sorry i can't turn this piccy to landscape....the diagram is based on Mark Joseland's April 1967 article "A Frazer Nash Clutch modification" page 50 in the FN handbook (this is not Harvard referencing!)

 

 

 

 

Happy 81st Birthday DAT

 

and sorry i made you lie on the garage floor - its elder abuse.  

clutch n prop

The main lack of progression is of course due to my inability to get the propshaft and clutch all aligned and working.   

Consulted JB  because the clutch is engaged but won't disengage and it's all looking all bit off centre.  

See piccy below JB noticed that the toggle arms looked unevenly set up- ie  either all of the worn ends of the arms should be facing one way or the other.   

so changed the toggles around and all the post heights (i think that's what your supposed ot measure are the same).  

Then remove the rag joint and wound out the centre bolt to engage the spigot and bearing properly but then it seams to have meant the clutch straps are under pressure

 

 

new cross shafts in with lined brackets

Not blogged since February-i think i'm losing the will to live fettling the nash or is it i don't want to write about my incompetence /inability to get the car back on the road... I'll try and get back into reporting my lack of progression.  

so the brake and clutch  crosshafts are all back in and bolted up and pretty.