Jump to content

Colin Lindsay

TSSC Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    17,266

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    570

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Colin Lindsay

  1. Colin Lindsay
    Canleys sell them as part CS1, but I've no idea of what they're made from...
  2. Colin Lindsay
    All those poor homeless spiders...
  3. Colin Lindsay
    There's actually two; Chic Doig is selling both, same photo although one is listed for the TR4 and one for the Herald.
  4. Colin Lindsay
    I just read my initial post and thought... maybe it's a bit vague / ambiguous... I didn't want anyone thinking that 'as he doesn't use one, I can do it too!'
  5. Colin Lindsay
    I never used a gasket SEALER. I don't mean I never used a gasket.
  6. Colin Lindsay
    Yep. More force. It will go!
  7. Colin Lindsay
    I can't add arrows to your image to demonstrate - Mac Preview is messing me about - but the nut takes one spanner, and the flat bit just behind the balljoint takes another. Turn them in opposite directions, or else hold the TRE steady and loosen the nut, then you'll find that it should screw off if you keep the steering arm gripped tight, maybe in molegrips or the like.
  8. Colin Lindsay
    Ah'll hauve yew know, Jimmy, Ah'm a personal mucker of thon Chookie Embra so ah'm.
  9. Colin Lindsay
    There are quite a few threads on seatbelts, Bob - it won't let me search twice in quick succession but I've linked to one of the most recent ones. On 1200s it's the bottom of the b-post close to the floor, but I can't find a photo to illustrate! you should be okay with the belt reel pointing straight up as some of them won't work unless they're vertical.
  10. Colin Lindsay
    The biggest problem I have on twisty, windy roads is that the HGV driver may follow the line of the corner as he comes towards me; but the trailer goes straight and follows the cab by the shortest route - thereby cutting the corner and frequently putting the oncoming car into the hedge, or removing the door mirrors at the very least. I worry that my own GT6 will go right under the trailer thereby putting me in line with the rear wheels. I blame Sat-Nav for sending vehicles down the shortest, but not necessarily the best, routes.
  11. Colin Lindsay
    Never used one on the casing, but for the output flanges, where there is no gasket at all, a smear wouldn't hurt.
  12. Colin Lindsay
    The roof has been cut off by the emergency services to access the occupants, but that's been a very nasty crash. I'm tired of meeting HGVs on the country roads round me, there are too many Haulage firms running out of small premises and using single-track roads where they just barrel along, and everyone else has to get out of their way. A surprising number of drivers seem to be on the phone, given that it's an automatic court case if caught - no tickets - and probably a driving ban.
  13. Colin Lindsay
    Edenborough? Isn't that the capital of Scawtlaund?
  14. Colin Lindsay
    Definitely B? Lucas 41305A is listed in my references as Vitesse Mk2 2 litre so with the HC prefix on the engine, should be a match - no idea what difference the B makes, though... presumably a slight upgrade.
  15. Colin Lindsay
    The serial number is on one of the two ribs on the underside; excuse the condition of this one but it's all that came to hand...
  16. Colin Lindsay
    Have you removed these before? By that, I mean are you experienced in mechanicing and you do know that the nut and the track rod end move in opposite directions? Sorry if that sounds insulting to your intelligence but I've seen it before, where new owners think the nut is the track rod end itself and so keep tightening it, thinking the whole thing should unscrew as one, thereby locking it against the other part and so they never loosen. They need to move in opposite directions, track rod end one way and the nut the other. Just checking!
  17. Colin Lindsay
    My favourite plates are what I remember as a child; yellow rears and white fronts but with raised black plastic letters. For some reason I want them on my 1967 Herald, despite the fact that it would have had silver on black. As BW says, personal choice! http://framptonsplates.com/RaisedRivetedBlack.html
  18. Colin Lindsay
    A good site here on the link; explains why the threads are called as they are, why they changed and when, and what modern or period equivalents are. http://www.baconsdozen.co.uk/tools/conversion charts.htm
  19. Colin Lindsay
    I was thinking "he shouldn't be driving" but then maybe he has a dog licence?
  20. Colin Lindsay
    Maybe there was a problem with her Life Insurance? I like cats, they treat me like s***, I'm just the slave and do everything for them, feed them, let them in and out, and get nothing in return... oh hang on, that's the wife. Sorry.
  21. Colin Lindsay
    Reminds me of a story I heard concerning a Humber Hawk. The prospective buyer asked: "Would it use much oil?" to which the seller replied: "It would, if it could get it..."
  22. Colin Lindsay
  23. Colin Lindsay
    Little parts like that are the hardest to source, and the ones that make breakers' eyes light up with pound signs. They can also be very difficult to identify in a box of bits, which is why I learned the hard way to keep one component complete, like a door assembly, whilst working on the other, and use the complete one as reference.
  24. Colin Lindsay
    Just before you sell it, hide a little note somewhere about the car that reads: "Did anyone tell you this was once an Insurance Write-off?"
  25. Colin Lindsay
    Yep, nothing better than an Imperial dog. These new metric ones aren't half the fun.
×
×
  • Create New...