Stratton Jimmer

That must be one of those skunk works colour schemes from the USA!

BTW, I sorted the sun visor this morning. Drilling out the headless set screw wrecked the old thread as I expected and so I trapped the hole with a 1/4 UNF, drilled the visor's hole out to 6mm and bolted it up with an Allen head set screw which was the only 1/4 UNF that I had which was short enough / long enough to do the job. The PO had put a rubber strip along the bottom edge of the hatch door which I have removed to reveal a few rust patches along that bottom edge. I don't know what adhesive he used but it was the very bugg3r to remove! It looks repairable but I'm out of Kurust at the moment so it will have to wait.

Inca yellow looks like a happy compromise between "NC" and Mimosa. I do like that thanks Mathew.

You can buy replacement commission plates. Thanks for your comments and Mimosa definitely looks better than Saffron... Decisions, decisions!

Investigations have now revealed that the car started life in Saffron Yellow, was then painted black by a would be racer and then repainted in Delft blue by its last owner. I rather like Saffron yellow so that looks like a long term aim. The battery tray is shot and there's a clunk from the diff / propshaft area which I will be looking into. One of the sun visor bolts is headless. I have drilled it out and am working on a fix for that. 1/4 unf tap at the ready!

I will have a chat with him and find out what the plan is. It's tricky to contact him at the moment as he refuses to use a mobile phone and isn't at home often.

Richard is a pal of mine and ex-colleague. He has been ousted by his landlords hence the sell off.

My sixpot Spit has roller rockers and NO additional oil feed. They seem to be perfectly well lubricated so my vote goes for the NAY sayers.

I would advocate ditching rotoflex couplings and investing in the Classic Driving Developments (CDD) CV drive shafts. I recently did this to my Mk3 and it is a very pleasing update. You will have less worry about the "sweep" of the doughnuts too.

I don't havethe nack either but my friendly local auto glass man does. Great Western Windscreens, Bradford Road, Swindon.

Now you have got me worried... I can't find a front diff on either of my motors.

Thanks Pete Truman. That is what I call a definitive reply!

The website says "Sold £40,500".

My thoughts are that if it isn't shown in the Highway Code, it should not be allowed.

The nearside drive shaft has now been fitted. It took less than half as long to do as the offside one. That is the benefit of hindsight and having found out all of the pitfalls already. Bleeding brakes is the next job followed by carb tuning (HS4s) but meanwhile there's a meeting of the North Wilts branch tomorrow evening. Yet again there were no shims, only a single spacer but the endfloat was comfortably within limits.

I am in the process of fitting the second (nearside) CDD shaft to my Mk3 GT6. It's a relatively straightforward job. The manufacturer says that if the bearings are not changed, the existing shims and spacer will be correct. My offside shaft had no shims, only the spacer and when checked for end float proved to be correct.

I see it now thanks Alex.

Each shaft has one of those but in the book it is designated as being an oil seal. I will see if I can post a photo of the drawing...

That is useful Alex as the workshop manual doesn't show the assembled hub in this way, only the exploded diagram (p. 4.120). What ths diagram doesn't seem to show though is the inner oil seal unless it is here described as a "spacer".

Thanks Alex. From reading / wading through the many posts in the fora about end float, I figured that that might be the case. I shall be doing the nearside driveshaft in the coming days and will see what that reveals.

My Spitfire Sixpot has Dunlops which are excellent: https://www.dunlop.eu/en_gb/consumer/tires/results.html?w=175&h=70&r=13&l=82&s=T&type=size My GT6 Mk3 has Mohawk of the same size . These are made by Hancook - Chinese but I have no problems with them. Overall, the Dunlops give me greater confidence particularly on damp roads.

Workshop manual section 0.111 shows "Fan attachment 5/16" U.N.F. x 1 1/4" bolt 12 - 14 lb. ft. 1.7 - 1.9 kg. m." Crankshaft pulley attachment is 5/8" U.N.F. x 2" bolt 90 - 100 lb. ft. 12.4 - 13.8 kg. m.

I only bought this car in August. The bonnet isn't entirely original. It is from a Spitfire Mk4 with the original bonnet's bulge welded in. The side indicators are non-functioning at the moment. Once I finish the drive shaft replacements the wiring is probably the next job as some of it is iffy to say the least. The bumpers are not rechromed, it is just a trick of the light making them look better than they really are. Not too bad though.

Here's my chromed Mk3. The colour is not its original one but is Delft Blue.