Colin Lindsay

It all depends on who you insure, and in what vehicle..... That you in the white coat, Pete? Re olives: what kind is Adrian using? Some suppliers will send different shapes, but the only ones I find anyway suitable out of the selection in the photo (all supplied by Triumph suppliers!) are the symmetrical bottom left ones, which are a very tight fit on the pipes and usually require some kind of gentle warming to make them expand before they'll slide on. Once in place and cooled down they'll grip the pipe very tightly and nothing moves that isn't meant to.

He's probably away hands-on with a few of our suggestions and will report back if it works, or not.... depending! We'll keep the thread going anyway... With regards to battery jump-starters: I had one of the NOCO Genius-Boost systems, I think it's a GB30, kept on charge in the rear of my modern for about two years or more. It failed on first use on a flat battery and has never worked or charged since, but as it was outside warranty.... tough, says NOCO. Buy another.

There might be a difference between petrol and water, though - is it fuel-resistant?.... plus: even with plumbers there are some who use none, some who use a bit, and some who use tons to cover shoddy workmanship... I suppose it's the same as with gasket sealer, many of us use gaskets alone while others use sealant as well.

The tap is supposed to allow you to drain the system without disturbing the hoses, so as not to cause damage or maybe aggravate wear etc, and you can also attach a small pipe to it to drain the coolant responsibly... fine when they work but if not, undo the hose...

Eight months for me already! I've no idea where the time is going. I get up in the early morning when I feel rested and go to bed when I feel tired, and most days don't even wear a watch. I have absolutely NONE of the things I planned completed so far. The problem is that many of them have been started... downstairs toilet stripped out... upstairs bathroom stripped out... fascia board taken down at the rear of the house... skirting board taken off in living room.... large hole to be bricked up where new chimney goes through wall... get something finished for goodness sake!

Thanks for your good wishes, guys... it's scary on a steep incline with no drive, no handbrake and not even able to hold the car in gear with the engine off. I had to sit with my foot on the brakes and wave other cars around me, all the while wondering where the actual wheel was. It was against the kerb with the hubcap and chrome embelllisher still attached and the brake drum on behind! If it had happened whilst driving rather than just moving off, even at low speeds, it would have ended up very differently. We got it trailered home within an hour however the breakdown lorry had a bit of trouble getting a three-wheeled GT6 off the rear, as it had pulled on easily using a winch with skids sliding under the brake backplate, but wouldn't slide off the same way using gravity alone. We used a large trolley jack under the chassis as a fourth wheel, with the lorry driver's son pulling the jack handle as we pushed... but unfortunately the jack slipped backwards on the Waxoyl coating and the car fell down onto it putting an enormous dent in both boot floor and rear panel and splitting the seam quite substantially. I now require both panels replaced and the resulting respray - they're good mates and as I have both panels already salted away in my parts store they'll do it for peanuts in their accident repair garage.

Anyone ever had a halfshaft shear at this point - right at the edge of the hub? I was just moving off from stationary at traffic lights. Quite scary when the rear wheel and brake drum part company from the rest of the car... you can see where the backplate skidded along the ground. Thankfully minimal damage caused, until we tried to get it off the breakdown lorry... but that's another story....

YO! Thought I wuz de only Green Rapper bout here?

You ain't got the bottle....

That's why I was advertising for a rear screen rubber a while back, a local member is doing just that.

I bounce about between both (primarily here tho) as it's like coffee and alcohol, at times I feel the need for one, sometimes the other...

It actually involved me doing all the things I do now - gardening, DIY, coffee, work on the cars, surfing the Net etc but all in about a tenth of the time I have now. The rest was sleeping and earning the money to pay for all the other things. Now I do all of the above things and wonder where the Hell I found time to fit work in.

Start by replacing the fuses (just read John's post above so I agree it's a good place to start!). It may be that simple.

Hello Mark, and welcome - that is one unusual Herald and looks great.

Off old Heralds, the tubing lasts longer than the bodywork! (I have dozens of heater air ducting pipes as well....) Colon reminds me of work (I have a long memory lol), I had a mate called Ferdia, I frequently referred to him as Hernia cos he was a pain... (he wasn't really!) Unfortunately one day I told this to one of the local shopowners and the mate phoned me later the same day to ask "Why is everyone calling me Hernia?" I think it stuck with him for a while...

The A-post forward? We all take breaks from restorations; both mine are stalled at present, one waiting on some light welding and the other waiting on some heavy welding. It's amazing how, after some time away, that you can walk back into the garage and look at a problem then realise it's not as bad as first thought, and get cracking again with a wonderful boost of optimism. I do it all the time! Anyway, you don't need a running car to post here, in fact many of the discussions end up amazingly far from anything Triumphy at all....

I was thinking of screenwasher hose (have a lot of that!) or the equivalent aquarium air hose, coat the threads with grease, push on, and cut to length once fitted.

It was some years ago but I remember this happening to me as well, it will eventually fit into the wishbone ok; you need the sideways push of the wishbone sides to compress the polybush back to a good solidity. Persevere and it will go in as it should.

I painted mine green as I like stationary engines, and mine hasn't moved under its' own power since 2003....

It's the solenoid assembly that fouls on just about everything, so only allows fitting in one direction only. I fitted mine quite a few years ago, no shims, and it's worked perfectly apart from filling with water and having to be stripped, cleaned, greased and reassembled.

They used to have a really grim one called "Three Musketeers" that was close to Milky Way. (last one I had was in the late 60s and I still remember it.... yuck )

Get manual ones with overdrive, they adjust quicker for less revs.

I wouldn't either, unless you have superwide wheels / tyres... but I have a set of the adjustable wishbones and they're quite a good product from what I can tell. Saves faffing about with shims. I was going to measure the diameter for Wayne but can't get access to that garage before tomorrow...

Not sure I'd support the chassis on the lift by using the front outriggers like that.... I made an extension / bridging bar for my lift which reaches the main rails just in case...

Insurance goes UP once the test is passed - the driver is now qualified to drive unsupervised and it's more of a risk than if accompanied. My daughter started at about £2400 as a 17-year old learner, dropped to £1800 the second year and is now down to £1100 approx; the Insurers reckon that by her next renewal she'll be down to realistic figures. Getting her mobile for school, Uni and part-time work, was the most important thing; the actual car is well down the list. (Peugeot 107 but she claims to love it anyway; besides I quite like it and may well inherit it!)