Colin Lindsay

If the rear stops, the front has to follow, no matter the size of the brakes....

Early (Mk1 at least) GT6 are the same as Herald front drums, but no help as THOSE are hen's teeth too. Spitfire are much more common, usually they fit Heralds as well, so a bigger market and can be made in bigger quantity so end up much cheaper. GT6 being rarer will always cost more, unless they're used by another vehicle and so may be cheaper if you can identify what else they're used on.

We're all mad here..... but it helps. Welcome Phil!

Based on what I can see from the photo I'd reuse those, no real evidence of pitting or corrosion around the snapoff point, and the threads are looking good. Any nagging doubts (those that come into your head once driving on those links!) take them to a club meet and get a hands-on opinion.

Sadly, people do.... and I've had more than a few new owners send me photos of their 'totally original and unrestored' cars that I've had to respond to, as tactfully as possible... If you knew nothing about Heralds and wanted your first one, this would seem to be the ideal car, until...

I couldn't work out what was wrong with that chassis until I realised it's Vitesse, and probably rotoflex (or lever arm rear suspension)? I'm too long in the Herald camp! Phil and Karl, I'm seriously in awe, and as my long-time fall-back welder has gone to a new job and can't spare me time any more for Heraldy-bits, I'm going to have to learn how to weld. Keep the updates coming and John - keep the advice coming!

Sadly, when I started on my Herald Estate, I had an unopened tin of BMC Green engine paint... Thankfully, as it has been stalled for so long in a damp and dusty garage, it now needs repainting... so I'll use the opened tin of Frost Black and redeem myself...

"Passed to me from Club member family due to a sad loss of its loving owner" He always wanted it to go to the highest bidder...

A lovely sunny morning here, sun well up (nothing on telly at 6am this morning so had to look out the window) so we're back to global warming again...

It's probably metric these days... I have a set of metrics for 'emergency' use in the garage and they often fit items that all my Imperial sets won't.

THAT reminds me of the old joke about the woman who was trying to contact Police, but there was no answer to the 999 number, so she dialled 998 and asked them to run next door and tell the Police there was an emergency... alternatively: Thank you for calling The Beast. Please choose carefully from the following options. Calls may be recorded in order to improve our service. If your number is about Hell or sin, please press 1. If your query is about the apocalypse, please press 2. If you would like to book a suitable date to raise the Devil, please press 3. For all other enquiries, please hold.

Frost engine enamel is good, but a gloss finish; for a Matt look on the block I used Vinylkote Matt Black. As the guys have posted above, any stove or chimney paint will suit manifolds and hotter parts.

That's quite an interesting idea! Never thought of it before, but plastic pipe filled with grease pushed over the exposed threads would help protect them, certainly more than copper grease alone, which I use at present.

Main Belfast to Dublin Road closed due to flooding, lightning has just hit some transmitter or other in the area so the telly has gone off, and I'm thinking of lighting the stove for the first time since March. This is the rain we were all so desperate for last week, and now it's here, we all want the heatwave back again.... I'm going to miss beer on the patio this evening, though.... it was becoming a habit....

Not sure if this is any distant relation (doubt it!) but the prices are interesting...

If we'd stayed in the EU the sun would have shone everyday and we'd have to fill in a million forms to obtain a rain quota. Incidentally: re Doug's post: I remember a story about a bus route somewhere where the bus was 666 and people were grumbling, so they changed it... to 616...

Put a couple of nuts on it first and tighten them right to the end of the threads; then if you cause any thread damage, unscrewing the nuts will rethread it as they move along. Of course if you have a tap and die set you can just use that instead.

Remember last summer? Cold and wet, and the global warming doomsayers were ominously quiet.... However: "All that's required for evil to prevail is good men do nothing"? Good men are trying to do something, they're being punished for it because they trusted the evil men to do their jobs, which I see as a real undeserved kick in the teeth. Sadly the evil men vastly outnumber them, and are making a fool of them by openly laughing at their feeble efforts to save the planet. I recycle as much as I can, but what's the point when millions of the world's population don't give a monkeys? How many days of walking to work will cancel out the emissions of one Indian factory?

No problem with contrarians, I'm usually one myself! Debate and discussion are excellent with a good cup of coffee. (More grumpy without.) If I pass a job on to someone and pay them for it, then if they fail to perform despite all my guidelines and safety checks, is it my fault? China and India both (1st and 3rd heaviest polluters of CO2 on the planet) have both flatly refused to reduce their CO2 emissions, not to mention litter pollution levels. So WE as a so-called civilised and wealthy country get punished time and time again for pollution that's a fraction of others', without even making the slightest dent in output levels worldwide, while these so-called poor countries are given a bye-ball and so go on buying up our industry with all their spare cash. No doubt our grandparents complained that the soot-darkened Industrial skies of days gone by would be blamed on them by future generations - that's us! - yet its amazing how many dead, rotten swampy streams that I remember from my childhood are now thriving rivercourses again, and the belching chimneys seem to have no left no lasting legacy other than a few blackened bricks.

It will if my postman delivers it.

I think mine's a Gunson, I've had it for years and just check the timing every so often while the engine's idling. The added features on some such as rev indicators never seem to correlate to what is happening at the engine, so they're a waste of money if you have to pay extra for them. You'll find them for less than £20 on eBay, and it'll be perfect for just the occasional check to see if things are running correctly.

Undo the freer side, pull the cable back at the seized side without allowing the other end to pop out of anything, and grease liberally where it goes through the grooves before replacing (if you're re-using the old cable). It will help it slide more freely (I usually grease the entire length of my cables as part of the annual service; it helps prevent it rusting through for longer) However I think the grooves at either side are open to the top except for one very narrow part, (they are on my GT6 anyway) so quite easy to poke a new threaded length through.

If mothers can test milk by dipping their elbows in it, Dave's idea is probably spot-on.

AHA got you now! I did a Bing search for Kayzee (not the musician, who has hundreds of entries) and found the name on a lot of motorsport and car-mod forums, but most of those you have to be a member to contact others on the forum. It seems to be the same guy as the Pistonheads username going by some of the cars he lists.

I'm trying to work out this thread, but it had me confused for a while until I think I've got it: I think Guppy is trying to track down Kayzee, not the car? There's a Kayzee posting on Cliosport forum, and AVforum as recently as this week, so it may be the same guy? He's certainly into cars anyway.