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Patrick Taylor

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  1. Poor earth on the light unit, or the flasher?
  2. So here's the thing: when I switch on the right indicator I get a single flash on the dashboard indicator and the RH sidelight bulb flashes rapidly. When I switch on the left indicator it works perfectly, although maybe a little fast. The RH indicator bulb has continuity. So, is this an flasher unit failure? I have a replacement GFU103 but Canleys list the number as GFU2103: is that the same part? The pin-out is different: this has terminals marked L, P and X which isn't the same as my Haynes manual. Or is it an earthing problem? We are talking a Bond Equipe, so it has a separate earth screwed to the rear of the sidelight/flasher pressing but this has never been a problem in the past.
  3. Thanks Paul -don't know how I missed it🙄. I'm going for 12 metres, as the Bond has opening rear windows, which I reckon will require another 1.5 metres, plus an allowance for corners etc.
  4. This has reminded me, I must get some DX73 seals for Bertie the Bond: I've had two different specialists replace the seals, and each time they have fitted furflex balloon ones, so I'm on door slamming duties, which can't do the fibreglass any good. Time to revert to the original lip seals. Can anyone confirm that DX73 is correct for a Herald/Vitesse?
  5. How is Jacinta Adern viewed in NZ? From this distance I would say she is about the pick of the bunch, but an international rpofile isn't always mirrored at home. As others have noted, there is no one in this country -of any party- who would bestride the world like a colossus right now...
  6. There's a man who could handle a pencil!
  7. It's always easy to slag off the young (I remember reading a mediaeval account doing just this, so it's nothing new), but the young men opposite and next door to me have variously replaced front struts, discs and calipers, a radiator and, of course, in-car entertainment(!), so there are those, like us, who can and do carry out their own repairs. They each have a VW Polo, so probably a modern equivalent of the Minis, Escorts, Triumphs and Morris Minors we cut our teeth on. But even if they wanted to, could they afford a 'proper' classic? No. Will they get insured? No. So this will have to wait until they've paid off student loans, mortgages and put the children through higher education, if they take that route. So we just need to keep our cars going for another thirty years or so, and there will be buyers for them. No fuel to run 'em on, mind you...😲
  8. I think Bond used a standard loom -I've used the Vitesse/Herald Haynes manual wiring diagram on a 2-litre and 1300 Equipe for the last 30 years and never found anything different...
  9. When I had a rear screen break🤯, the garage found a moulding they said was for kit cars. But I would try contacting Guy Singleton (details in The Courier): he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of our cars!
  10. According to Wikipedia Horatio Bottomley was a journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament (no change there, then). The story is that when he visited Lord Cholmondley he asked the flunkey if he could see Lord chol-mond-ley; on being told that his lordship's name was pronounced 'chumley', Bottomley replied 'Well, tell him that Horatio Bumley is here to see him'... Sorry for the thread drift.
  11. And because English is both fascinating and frustrating, 'felloes' are pronounced 'fellies'. Why? Because we can, because we can.
  12. I favour Joyce, full punctuation and trying to straighten out squashed Linread switches to make them work again. Given that plenty of manufacturers used them, they seem overpriced (i.e. they are hardly a niche product), but what can you do?
  13. I have had some success a) holding the (no longer) captive nuts with a pair of log-nosed pliers and b) jamming a flat bladed screwdriver in between the square nut and the side of the steel pressing that houses it. You have to lift the rear footwell carpets as best you can in order to do this.
  14. I know it is contentious, but once you've got a battery (and an 063 spins my 1300 spit engine and fires it every time, despite long lay-up times), do consider investing in a top-up charger/conditioner. Hooked up every few months, it gives the battery a boost. Obviously you could take the car out for a spin instead but as we know, time doesn't always allow for these things...
  15. Ah, that's what comes of being a Bond owner -they had a mix of things. When I upgraded to O/D, the box came from a Mk4 Spit -but then the engine is Mk3, not 13/60 (if that's different...?).
  16. Or buy the gearbox in the hope there's a Vitesse owner with a 13/60 OD 'box they want to sell/exchange. Having seen the recent thread about how many spare parts people have lying about, that may not be such a daft option...
  17. I would always seal the grain with either a sanding sealer or Danish Oil before applying Briwax; you would need to work quite hard to get a shine on raw wood without a sealed surface to build on. Apply the wax with a very fine ('00000') grade wire wool, rubbing along the grain; let it dry and then buff to a shine. You can build a greater shine with repeat applications over time, but it won't be as deep a shine as a varnish. An oiled & waxed finish will mark if water sits on it -it isn't waterproof. Rustins Plasticote is waterproof, though. As mentioned above, apply it with a brush and build up several layes, flatting back the surface as you go. Once fully hardened, the finish can be flatted back with wet and dry paper (1000/1200 grit) used wet & soapy; and then build the depth of shine with T-Cut followed by car body wax.
  18. Hard to beat a Mitsuoka Viewt: Mid-section of a Micra, top and tailed with a cheese-before-bed dream of a Mk2 Jag...
  19. According to legend, the Scootacar (built by Hunslets, who made steam locomotives), was 'designed' by getting someone to sit on a Villiers motorbike engine and then drawing around him:
  20. Did/do these have a fibre washer? I've never seen/replaced one, having assumed they 'just' sealed through being an interference fit.
  21. It has some movement (stationary, without the engine running & the gearbox cold) but it feels very notchy: perhaps the detent plate(?) needs re-setting. I left one of the gear lever springs out at the previous re-bush, so maybe things have worn over time. I'll get the tunnel off and investigate when I get a run of time.
  22. Cup washer is unfettled, and should be accessible without removing the tunnel, so that's an easy first check. the gearlever seemed the same as usual -no movement on acceleration.
  23. I wouldn't mind, but I re-bushed the linkage in the summer and have done virtually no mileage since, thanks to the binding brakes... So, it's tunnel out again, take the remote off and see what's appertaining.
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