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  1. Colin Lindsay
    Ok... so must remove my interior roof light, and the dash illumination... just in case!
  2. Colin Lindsay
    That's a slave cylinder kit: is it the slave or master you need?
  3. Colin Lindsay
    Can't find a repair kit in the Club Shop - complete cylinder, yes, but no kit. If the one you have has been well stored it should be fine; however I deal with this seller all the time and can recommend him: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRIUMPH-TR7-Spitfire-Brake-Clutch-MASTER-CYLINDER-REPAIR-SEALS-KIT/222977590472?hash=item33ea8004c8:g:ikAAAOxyRhBS6rOr This one is NOS original Lockheed 5/8, I'll assume even despite the age it's still perfectly serviceable: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SSB936-clutch-master-cylinder-repair-kit-fits-triumph-2000-SUNBEAM-Alpine-minx/383873935948?epid=727420177&hash=item5960ab6a4c%3Ag%3AETcAAOSwq~Nf5JS1&LH_ItemCondition=3
  4. Colin Lindsay
    It's only headlights and in particular headlights that were originally sealed beam, filament or halogen that have been adapted for LEDs. Properly made, and presumably e-marked versions, are ok. No other LED bulbs are affected.
  5. Colin Lindsay
    'Seems to' would have me worried every time I drove... Ask the team at Robsport, they were excellent when I had the TR7 and always very ready to help and advise. https://robsport.co.uk
  6. Colin Lindsay
    It happens to a lot of cars - they tootle about, the owner has known them for years and knows the faults, and the limits and has no problems; he's used to the little foibles. A new owner comes along, pushes the car more than it's been used to, even very slightly, and things let go. The seller will very honestly tell you 'it never did that with me' and he's probably right. It always takes a bit of fettling, and a bit of expense, before you get the car the way you want it and it will stand up to your own personal driving style. Don't let it get you down - think of it as breaking in a horse to a new rider. It's only when you've worked on a car that you can really call it yours.
  7. Colin Lindsay
    The problem we make sometimes is that we're all responsible drivers, and we think everyone else is too. It's not aimed at us, but other drivers have ruined it for all.
  8. Colin Lindsay
    There's another thread on this buzzing about; LED bulbs are not suitable for the lamp units due to an incorrect beam pattern; only filament or halogen bulbs will suit. It's to do with headlamps converted to take LEDs rather than proper LED units. Bear in mind, it's fun to fool the MOT man and Mr Plod, until you kill someone; the cyclist you didn't see or the oncoming motorist you dazzle through incorrect lighting.
  9. Colin Lindsay
    You'll get a residual smell of gas off old pipes that haven't seen a cylinder in years, but it all depends on how strong the smell you're getting is. You may be correct in that when you disconnected the regulator, gas already in the hoses has leaked backwards, but the hoses themselves do perish and I've had to replace mine on the old Super Ser gas heater - easily done once you locate the new hose that you require. I bought one of the squat Calor Cube heaters a few years back; then found no-one locally sold the gas cylinders that it requires so it's never been used. By the time I do use it I'll probably have to replace the hoses first.
  10. Colin Lindsay
    I thought it was just my lot. They dig soil out of the flowerpots and shake their heads so that it flies an amazing distance. I'm always sweeping the area round the front door where a collection of them dig the flowerbeds up almost every morning.
  11. Colin Lindsay
    Almost as much as electric cars... I see they've been caught out recently bragging about inflated fuel-consumption figures. However burning the Amazon rain forest must send up a few particles in comparison with my little stove... I read recently that Brazil has washed their hands of it, claiming it's nothing do do with them...
  12. Colin Lindsay
    Petes would just be Petes, not Pete's, nor Petes' either. You could end up turning an apostrophe into a catastrophe.
  13. Colin Lindsay
    Vitesse Mk1? I've got a couple of plates of the brackets on some of our dashboards: If it's part 33 to the left on the top, it screws to the bulkhead then to the lower rail. I don't think the Vitesse had the huge strengthening plate of the earlier Heralds - part 46 in the lower photo. If these don't help, let us know exactly which brackets and we'll oblige.
  14. Colin Lindsay
    If the frame gaps outwards then shim the mountings at the bottom of the frame inside the door with washers, that will bring it back to a better angle. It's trial and error. The P-seal is meant to close the gap between the quarterlight frame and the screen pillar; some have it in a direct line with the frame, and on others I've seen it just squashed into the angle of the doorframe so that it fills the entire corner. The flat side is meant to stick to the inner face of the frame, not the screen pillar, so it needs either trimmed along the edge or else bend at right angles - depending on what room you have to allow the door to close - and in some cars it goes in behind the door seal. I think that's the factory fitting, but I've seen so many variations over the years that it comes down to what stays in place and lets the door close while sealing the gap.
  15. Colin Lindsay
    That looks more like the one on the underside that bolts the Y-bracket cable compensator to the tub; the handbrake itself has a fulcrum pin held on with a large circlip. It's twice the length / size of the little one I need...
  16. Colin Lindsay
    Awwwwwww...no.... the slippery slope. "It'll be off the road for a day or two." Famous last words...
  17. Colin Lindsay
    I've sent you a PM but I suspect heated rear window; even the early GT6 had one (mine did, as an optional extra). The strips are still there but it hasn't worked in many years. I can't remember the name of mine (Hotline or something like that) but it's different to the later versions.
  18. Colin Lindsay
    Here's wishing you health to drive and enjoy. I must admit I'd love one of those... the middle years of the TR range always appealed to me.
  19. Colin Lindsay
    We ain't got no Aldi... local LIDL are selling 'Oil filter and battery testers' according the the price label. I never realised the oil filter used power. Thankfully the actual box reads: 'alternator and battery tester'. However: easiest way seemed to be to use spanners; I have plenty of them and after all a 1/4 inch nut is the same diameter as a 1/4 inch bolt, so: Pivot bolt is one inch long from end to end and the shoulder extends to halfway of that. The head is 1/2 inch, the shoulder fits a 3/8 spanner snugly, and the threads fit a 5/16 spanner whilst taking another 1/2 inch nut. Aren't some of the engine studs 3/8?
  20. Colin Lindsay
    Never thought of that - makes perfect sense! I'll be at the In-Laws' later today and will get it professionally measured. Both the nut and the head of the bolt take a 1/2 inch spanner. Must buy new calipers. My cheapie Chinese set measured it at about four feet and so went in the bin.
  21. Colin Lindsay
    I just love the angles cats get themselves into when they're really relaxed, upside down and all. We had one called Paud, way back, and he just poured himself off the chair he was lying on... just slid off like something boneless, really slowly and smoothly, until he hit the floor, then he'd get up and walk off. Brill.
  22. Colin Lindsay
    That's no fun, Pete! Simple and easy, but only when all other angles are covered. I'm already measuring up various old suspension bolts and if I can find a suitable one I'll either cut it down or if needs be get the In-Laws to thread it right down to a half-inch collar. The frame hole appears to be half inch but any bolt of that size that I try sticks and won't go in whereas the shoulder / pivot bolt goes in first time. Rear diff and cylinder head studs are the same, and they may lend themselves to cutting and having a nut welded on, so that maybe the way forward. However: it's the detective work that appeals. Anyone got a Stag - the bolts for that hood are readily available but I suspect a different size.
  23. Colin Lindsay
    Headlights, Rich? I was thinking the headlamp flasher was maybe shorting out on the steering column and the full beam was flashing momentarily but do you mean you were in the dark and the lights went off, then on again? If it's happening on corners, first thing is to check the bullet connectors on the steering column, and especially if tight cornering where you're turning the wheel more than usual - this may be stretching the wiring if it's getting caught in the collapsible joint further down the column. Have a look firstly at where the loom goes in relation to the column and make sure it's not being pulled when you turn.
  24. Colin Lindsay
    We don't have any kind of Hedgerow Regulations over here, or not as stringent as the mainland, as we have many more small fields, not the huge ones I see in England, and most of our roads are bounded with hedges. It's something I always found strange in areas like Lincolnshire - you can walk straight off the road into a flat field with no marked boundary and in all that space there's maybe one single tree. That hedge I removed was actually Castlewellan Gold conifer that had grown up round a barbed-wire fence, and a lot of it dead, too. You can just see the small blackthorn shoots that we replanted coming up round the replacement fence - I think I bought about 100 of them and divided them out round three sides. With all of the acres of trees roundabout us, all the blue-tits, pheasants, rooks, starlings, woodpigeons and squirrels must have standing room only by now - there are millions of them.
  25. Colin Lindsay
    You must have had a bad one. Mine are coming up on over ten years and still going strong.
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