Colin Lindsay

The big hexagonal cover that sticks out under the pressure take-off / switch, yes.

Use the diff itself; just make sure the jack won't slip off the rounded base, especially if it's oily. I'd go for axle stands on both sides, too; don't support it by the jack alone.

Try this stuff: Astonish - costs me £1 from the local Poundshop and works really well on Herald visors.

Be careful what you start, Doug....

Use this one - safe to download and install! (assuming you're on Windows, there's a Mac version too) https://iresize.en.softonic.com/?ex=MOB-593.4 It's called iResize, you just drag your photo to it then slide the bar to change the size, and it will save to wherever you need it.

My rad cap on the Mk1 is quite tight, has to be pressed down to get the lugs to grip and once they're on for any length of time, it has to be hammered off like the spinners on wire wheels. I've no idea if that's the fault of the rad cap or the radiator itself. Nice t-shirt, Maria - matches my old spare wheel cover nicely!

Yes, no rear deck to crease but the reinforcing bracings on the estate wheelarches may contribute; however it's not that far back that I'm pulling, so we'll see what happens.

Be brave, but not bl**dy stupid... I've put two blocks of wood behind each b post and screwed them in place...then attached a ratchet strap to both. I think the ratchet is too lightweight, but it certainly pulled the wings inwards; just not enough to keep them in place. The door bottoms have dropped nicely into line, in fact there's a danger of over-improving things and pulling the passenger side in too far... but I couldn't physically tighten the straps any further using the built-in ratchet. SO: I took a rubber mallet and used the wooden handle of that to twist the straps together and so pull the wings in further. Same problem: lot of torque needed but not much inward progress. I have heavier straps coming from a friend mid-week. In the meantime - do you know what happens if you let go of the hammer handle? Yes, it unwinds at very high speed then flies off into the air. All I could do was cover my head, cringe, and wait... thankfully it landed on the empty floor and neither on me nor the GT6 beside me. I tried again with the ratchets on the driver's side only to address that spread, and the other end of the strap round the lift... all it did was to pull the car across the floor. The gaps are closing nicely but springing out again once pressure is released. Still, I have the theory now so all that remains is to wait for the heavier straps to appear, and then see what I can bend / break / distort beyond repair.

Never thought of screwing the wood into place; I was intending to jam it in behind so that's another excellent suggestion. I can do that through the seatbelt mounting hole and some of the trim clip holes. I'm just not sure about the amount of force required - theory is one thing, but reality? - so am wary of bending or breaking anything, hence I was dubious about using the thin-looking brackets on the b-post that the window pillars bolt to, they look like they'd bend too easily. I just need to go out now and find some suitable wood; the downside of having a wood burning stove is that it's just too easy to feed it all the good, solid wood that's lying about...

I've managed to regap the tub - slightly - and fit the passenger door, which hangs amazingly level and actually clicks onto the lock, but still opens when weight is put on it, so the mechanisms require adjusting before someone ends up out on the road. As I suspected, the passenger side also sits out at the bottom. I don't think I can gap it much better; if you look at the skin profile it's tight at the top, wide in the middle and tight at the bottom, and no amount of fettling will cure that. It's a poor profile of door skin and should have been fitted and fettled to the B post instead of being fitted to a door that had been removed. It's not the worst, but not the best. Tub spread is going to have to be addressed; the measurement between the B-post tops, where the door pillar bolts on, it 48.3 inches, and I think it should be 46.5. I'm going to have to pull the wings in, and ratchet straps seem the best option. The problem is: where to attach them without bending something beyond repair or pulling something off. This is the inside of the Estate B post area. I can possibly jam a thick block of wood from floor to inside of wing top, or possibly a shorter one from back of b-post to inside of wing top at a diagonal. I just don't want to bend anything beyond repair. I can, if necessary, use one of the lift pillars so that I'm not pulling wing against wing - they don't have to move by an equal amount - but I'm checking all of the options before I start. All tips, advice and caveats welcome!

I've never experienced it on any of my Triumphs so I suppose I should be thankful. Oil and filter change, car starts as normal and oil light goes out in seconds. I use WIX on the GT6 and Uniparts on the Heralds; as the guys have posted above, it must be to do with the newer style of filter, so I'd try another trusted version for peace of mind. Maybe these newer filters need a higher pressure?

In my house it's: 'I need to take your car, there's no diesel in mine'...

As the guys say: those will fit, and you'll get away with Spitfire springs and shocks, but you'll need the GT6 calipers to fit the mounting points on those uprights.

Thanks Johnny, couldn't get the oil route clear in my head between 4 and 6 cylinder engines, so was going round in circles... just like the oil...

I'm trying to work out the fault, if it lies with the filter... so bear with me for some written-down thinking out loud... The oil goes into the filter around the outer edge, through the element and back into the engine through the threaded bit? So the anti-drain filter just moves in / up to allow oil in, but in one direction only, so it can't run back out. The fact that there's no oil pressure at all makes me blame the pump; if the filter was blocking the flow, would the oil pressure not be excessive and the gauge go right off the scale before the bypass kicked in? Another thing to try - as YS says above - fill the filter with fresh oil, then fit it. Messy, but it's full from the word go.

Difference being that bathwater runs down the plug hole, whereas the oil runs out of the plug hole but you're not allowed to dispose of it down the plughole... Maybe it's time to pull the plug on this one?

Probably petrol with an expensive label. I can confirm petrol works, my hands are reeking of it after gluing trim panels to Triumphs out in the garage then cleaning off excess Evostik with petrol, and then scrubbing my hands. Whatever scent was on the handwash is completely overwhelmed by unleaded.

I used to read about 'packing the oil pump with vaseline' but never knew if it meant the interior mechanism, or just the intake nozzle... so first one I ever did, I packed the intake tube with Vaseline then filled the pump with oil from the dizzy pedestal, as Dave says. It must have worked as it's still running today.

Matches the colour of the sky these days very well indeed!

More flies, more flies and even more flies. I suspect these are the ones that stick to my bonnet after a good run, come to see where I am as they're fed up waiting by the roadside. In recent weeks I've been taking a 6' x 4' trailer to the dump every day, and this is what still remains. Anyone want free compost? ...and on that note... back to the proper thread. It can't get any worse. Sorry, John. I suppose, in my defence, it's horse rather than my usual bull...

Is it true that in the Southern Hemisphere, threads run in the opposite direction?

The horse is actually a device for generating large amounts of waste, so counts as a tool; it also creates brownie points with the in-laws, so gains the use of their professional machinery. It's also 'Tips and Tricks' so here's a tip: don't buy a horse, unless you like shovelling.

Worth a try!! I'll email later, just in case. I've also got a local upholsterer about six miles away, one of the old school, and he comes up with all sorts of solutions that he uses on settees and house furniture; definitely a good man to know.

Just got back, not a bad morning, home by noon and the horse jumped well. The digger in the background had the hole dug in case it didn't... and as Mark says that's my brownie points restocked. As for lathes... the in-laws have them all, I think they have every lathe in the country, so I suppose no point in buying a dog and barking myself... I'll sneak across to AJM Engineering in the afternoon and accidentally bring a few small pieces that need drilled or shaped...