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  1. Colin Lindsay
    If anything, engine oil helps them slide over the crank on fitting, and I use engine oil to get the seals to fit properly in their housings, but once fitted they'll be well oiled by themselves, so if you want to, use engine oil but no grease necessary.
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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/153802521170?chn=ps I use these little guys for the inside; the trim strip sits in the small clip while the larger part clips to the door itself. I've got a few on both the Herald and the GT6 already and you can see how they differ from the outer versions. However a quick search shows the original outers are still available, so as usual it seems it's down to suppliers selling an alternative item. https://www.ebay.com/itm/TRIUMPH-TR4-TR250-TR6-OUTER-DOOR-WAIST-SEAL-CLIP-SET-KIT-14-CLIPS-/191279407575 They're also used on Minis and MGB, in fact a lot of cars of the period used the same clips - the seller below is UK based. https://www.ratsport.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=9611215 Hope that helps!
  3. Colin Lindsay
    So it's the smaller ones you need?
  4. Colin Lindsay
    It's above the ashtray so the gentleman smoker could see where his ash was going.
  5. Colin Lindsay
    I'm the other extreme at present, thanks to lockdown. I was having a coffee outside earlier and there were two cars passed in all that time. We have two little... I'll call them Yahoos - one half a mile from me countrywards and the other about a quarter mile in the housing estate, in the opposite direction, who regularly work on Clios, Hondas and the like and use this road as a test track between each other's houses. I reckon none of the cars are taxed, insured or even roadworthy, but I hope the neighbours know it's not me and my Triumphs making that racket...!
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    That took a few trips up a ricketty ladder and more than one coffee but I found the bit I needed. Pre 1963 cars had a solid interior light made of metal, and a cardboard surround shaped for the heavier switch - top one in the photo. Post 1963 cars with the padded dashboards had a metal surround but a much flimsier light unit. The switch does not turn as far hence the smaller cutout. Behind this the cover was just stapled in place. As with all dates I use them sparingly as there were some 1964 cars with the earlier setup, but as always that's registration date rather than build date.
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    I had the first - sold them recently, never fitted after gathering dust for a few years on the shelf. I also bought the latter after seeing them at Stratford last summer; haven't fitted them yet as it involves grinding the wishbone and I'm putting that off. Let me know how they go.
  8. Colin Lindsay
    When / if you get one grease the threads well. I ruined the first one I bought for my first Triumph, on it's very first use, by using it ungreased and had to get another. The second one has lasted twenty seven years so far...
  9. Colin Lindsay
    The village I live in is built along a canal - it used to be quite an important trading hub at one time - but there are a lot of new estates along the waterway, maybe six feet above it at most and backing onto the water. I'm on the hill overlooking it but as the Insurance Company go by postcodes, I'm designated a flood risk with a correspondingly higher premium. By the time flood water reaches me the entire valley will be under water. Maybe I should move back to my last house which was on top of the highest hill...
  10. Colin Lindsay
    Don't tempt me.... I was just this minute looking at a metal surround for Herald dashboard courtesy lights and wondering if the in-laws could cut a few in their engineering works. Some days when I visit I just stand and stare at their cutting machines cutting gearwheels or other parts of industrial machinery. Reckon something like this would be easy? One slight angle towards the front which you may be able to make out from the photo.
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    On some cars - don't ask me the exact years, I'm still trying to determine that - there was a metal surround. I tried it earlier with both earlier and late versions of the courtesy light and on first fitting it fitted the earlier, more solid light; I went back later and it only fitted the later, thinner version so at present I'm frantically scouring reference books to see which cars originally had it. There's no reference at all in my early Parts Manual but this one came off a 1967 1200 and the only photo I've managed to find so far shows one on the padded dash setup. As Pete and Martin have already said there was no cover for the bulb itself.
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    Nothing has turned up in my spares piles, and I've used the opportunity to shuffle things about and repack an overcrowded room which was long overdue so it's been a bonus for me at least. I didn't think I'd have one as I've only ever dismantled a 1300 Mkiv, both of the other Spits went back on the road. However I did find this one on eBay - looks like it might fit? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-AC-DELCO-FUEL-PUMP-SPACER-ESCORT-CORTINA-CAPRI-CORSAIR-ANGLIA-CLASSIC/303549643746?hash=item46acf7fbe2:g:AJ0AAOSwbAhehPbI
  14. Colin Lindsay
    My choke cable is both crimped and soldered, but it's in good condition and can be reused when I get the dash back in. I'd just like the option of an easy replacement if it ever comes to that.
  15. Colin Lindsay
    Washed the Mondeo for the first time in six months. I must be getting bored. I took the carpets out of the Herald Estate two days ago, found the small metal bar for the tap handle plus a 7/16 socket and 7/16 spanner, so now I know where the Gremlins hide them.
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    You just beat me to it, Clive! I was halfway down the thread and was thinking the same thing. For a time there the GT6 needed two pumps of the pedal for a good feel at the brakes, but after refitting the rear axles and adjusting the rear brakes properly they feel a lot better.
  17. Colin Lindsay
    Can't, all the half crowns and ten shilling notes will go everywhere. Took me years to save them, too. Gonna take them to the bank and exchange for drachma for my next holiday.
  18. Colin Lindsay
    Which is probably why they put Newton on the Pound... note, that is. So you can happily claim that one pound equals one Newton.
  19. Colin Lindsay
    I went hunting as a passenger in one which involved a lot of mountainous off-roading, including rolling onto our side at one point. I think my pelvis was hammered up into my neck.
  20. Colin Lindsay
    That's what Mintex says on their blurb for bedding in; it's on their website and about a dozen other classic sites on the Net; just search for 'Mintex Bedding In'. For a real driving experience try a drum brake Herald; that really makes you pay attention.
  21. Colin Lindsay
    Thanks Paul; it's a job I've had on the long finger, as they say, but never yet got round to it.
  22. Colin Lindsay
    Probably because, as another ad put it, it works on tight nuts and rusty tools.
  23. Colin Lindsay
    That's true - for example you cannot weld all of the sides of the outriggers - but you're better to repair the body in situ whilst the chassis is giving structural support, then repair as much of the chassis as you can with the body on for reference before removing the now solid tub and finishing the chassis welding. Unless you have a pre-made jig for the chassis you'll have a hard time lining up the various outriggers with the body off.
  24. Colin Lindsay
    Is it carpet or vinyl, Aggie? I've just replaced the Gt6 arch carpets and they ended up looking like the original baggy trousers, but thankfully most of it is hidden. I stuck the flat faces first then curved and stuck the carpet an inch at a time, using heavy magnets from old speakers to keep it in place whilst the glue dried. For the Herald they supplied vinyl-like material and it's a matter of starting in the centre then with lots of heat and contact adhesive smoothing the stuff out towards the edges, like vinyl-wrapping a car.
  25. Colin Lindsay
    1995 or thereabouts Nissan Micra blower will fit, and although it's still something on my 'to do' list I hear they blow much better too.
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