after a fun day at Donington decided to make my self get the car back together... several hours later the rag joint is back in with it carefully placed additional washers on the bolts and the clutch spring wound up... but cant check out the prop alignment until the clutch is not in contact with the pedal bars... the pedal bar brackets still don't fit so need to do some more modifications .... and if that doesn't work .... anyway this task needs to be finished.....
Niki is thinking of studying engineering so she has offered to help out on good and faithful. So we replaced the reversed tyres and whilst the wheels are off we undid all the nuts on the front wheel brake drums to check they won't be coming. No drama for a change- no cracks, none sheered off so all was well.
Sunday 12th September
thumbs up for the propshaft being reunited with the car after a few hours of Lee and I faffing we got it back in...
but we only loosely put it together because the stop nut at the end of the prosphaft is a bit bent
Just thought i'd better check the new spares spigot diameter and the bearing diameter but the spigot is 6thou out...
so as seen here 6.94" (no metric vernier sorry) on the spigot
and 6.85 on top of what i believe to be the correct bearing '2 row self aligning' 1202 (workshop manual info shown in background)
I think it's supposed to be a press fit... so it can move a bit? SBE suggetsed the easiest may be to machine out the bearing to fit (and have a couple spare)
CROSS SHAFT BRACKET
So also bought two new spare cross shaft brackets... but the fittings are much deeper than the original. On the RHS of the car there is a diagnonal bolt through it so it was slightly complicated getting this in the right place without changing the bar or wrecking the fitting ! a photo to show it fitted after a ridiculous five hours of faffing....
and lee having fun
Thanks to SBE the propshaft has been cold pressed and straightened out and I now have a fixed spigot on the end of the propshaft you can see the welding scar by my left hand ... Also ordered some single crossshaft brackets so need to chuck the car back together next weekend
The problem with the Nash party is that you start drinking early on and forget to take pictures.... got an award...Wriggley Monkey Award for "Best Raid Entertainment" .... it's not home yet but it's the bronze thing on the table in front of Jon. I'll take a better photo for the blog soon...
Everyone enjoyed WTs "awful warning" speach as you can see from the smiles on their faces
and here's a bad picture of WTs speach
and one by popular request of Lorraine and I in our frocks and tranny shoes
so that's where Lionel's cartoon idea came from
check out the wheel on the back... and missing rear light
Alistair Pugh receiving instructions in Bolzano outside the Luna Monschein
look how tight that chain is.....it is stretched old chain but the link piece is bent .... it is just so weird it worked so well for years.... but it is a nightmare now...As I have said before dad is convinced this is the way the works upgraded the car to 4 forward speeds so is keen that the set up does not change
anyone wanting to comment here's what the cogs look like
I think not having a reverse seems the easiest option if I was allowed to have it as an option...
so propshafts out do we just whip out the bevel box and get some new cogs? and get slighlty different teeth so that new chain fits? dont really have the mechanical engineering knowledge to understand this. I plan to ask JB for his thoughts
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