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Perhaps it's just there to confuse us all 😊
On 05/01/2021 at 19:15, Colin Lindsay said:I had actually wondered about that, but can't work out which bits would need to be lifted / prised about so much that you need a special tool for it.
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I had one with a s/s exhaust. From John Kipplings many years ago . I aways thought it was to support the exhaust pipe in the middle and bolted to the hole in the middle outrigger bottom plate. Didn't put it on. Didn't seem to need it
Maybe it's a fitting aid
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funny you should say that! never though of them. bought my xk8 off them and we go to the lunch meet every year. (
next time I am down that way I'll give them a try.
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Still looking!
had lots of samples and seen loads at upholsterer, but sadly nothing as yet.
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23 hours ago, Neil Clark said:
I got stuck on these bushes. They just would not sit down in the "cups" and I couldn't get them settled enough to tighten the nuts. Along comes the wife and says "why don't you use WD40? to make them slide in". I don't know why I hadn't but she was right.
I have various liquids for lubrication in small containers in the garage for just that sort of thing. There’s silicone lube, Vaseline, fiery liquid, soap, KY, and a wd40 type of thing. You never know when you are going to need the right sort of lubrication. 😲
My Dad always used a bit of soap on woodscrews to help them in. that was before the days of impact drivers😊
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never understood why you would start the bidding at £1 with a reserve. if you have a reserve start it at that with Offers.
very nice though. would love it. always like a van. wounder were they got the seats done?
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Thank you both! I'll look in to your suggestions.
I would like to get as close as possible to the origanal type. If I can.
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Is there anybody there?
best I can find is from Martrim car trimmers the moonstone in White.
Anybody used it?
I'll order up a sample and see !!
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Some more photos, difficult to get a good shot but you can see the speednut plate under the rear mounts
and just about under the mounting just behind the diff.
however I coud not get a good pic of the main chassis rail holes but that has the same speednut plate fixed inside the main chassis rail.
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just going through some old update sheets for Triumph Herald 948cc spare parts number 508073 3rd edition Accumulative amendment No 5 dated Dec. 1962
Change BT 7822 to read HU0811
And I see that the part number they use in the later herald 13/60 part catalogue
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Definitely original, I have had the car since 1980 and it was basically scrap then. The back seat area had one big thick peace of sheet metal welded over the mostly none excitant original as did the front foot wells. The boot floor was ply screwed to the rust. The best bit on the car was the chassis as years of dripping oil had completely covered it in thick oily goo. Believe it or not it had an MOT and I drove it back home from Ashford in Kent with its “slipping clutch “the reason the lady was selling it.
This is a photo from back in 1982 after the chassis was shot-blasted and coated, did not think to photograph it this time when the body was off. All the central rails where in excellent condition as I said coated in oil and dirt. You can just see the fixings. The speed nut things in side are fairly chunky.
and the parts catalogue does list them as screws .... It’s all rather confusing really!
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2 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:
im pretty sure the only acme threaded bolts were used with spire clips in area 4 where the two sheet panels overlap and screw into the cross member
all others are std unf bolts and cage plates etc
are you dreaming about this type of fixing certainly never used on main body mounts
my coupe (in the picture) is an very early car all the back body fittings are that type of fitting in to a plate fixed to the chassis two under the back seat two in the boot by the axle tunnel and four at the back of the boot, two under the fuel tank side and two on the opposit side fixed to the rear outriggers.
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2 hours ago, Qu1ckn1ck said:
Are they what I know as "Coach Bolts" ? https://www.screwfix.com/c/screws-nails-fixings/coach-bolts-screws/cat840088
looked at them. the thread don't go far enough up or the shoeter ones are to small in diameter.
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Anybody know if the body mounting bolts on the early Heralds, I think where are call speed bolts, are avalible new? sort of a big screw with a bolt type head.
there looks like there were a couple of sizes used, but the only ones I have found in stores are no where near as big. just in case! I don't suppose anyone would know how to work out the size of them, (never could get the hang of bolt and nut thread sizes!) so I can search the tinternet.
below is where they are used.
thank you !
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Thank you Colin (and Pete) for the clarification and the torque setting. I now see what you mean about the front mount have a shoulder.
Just needed to get it strait in my head.
Had to balance the body on the swing with a heavy tool box on the front.. 😊
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Hi all
Me again ..... well I have started over again
stripped the body off and started to sort out a leak from the diff.
however I have a question. some time ago I bought a set of polybushes for the coupe (black ones) I have done the front with no problems.
But at the rear the front diff mounting bushes seen to be very big compared to the rubber ones that I have just taken off.
I know that the rubber ones will squash down somewhat when done up and over time with uses, but they were new Stanpart units when I put them in some 20 odd years ago and the car was never finished so had never driven. And there was no slaking on the fittings to indicate wear.
If I put the new polybushes in as they are, would that not push the angel of the prop down (or up?) as the diff pivots on the rear mountings. So my question is should I take a bit off the new polybushes or not. And if so how much
my thinking is if the rubber ones are made the squash down to give the tension, then that’s ok for the rubber ones , but I can not see that the polybush ones will squash down to give the same tension ant the same depth, if you see what I me.
Any help would be very mush appreciated.
when needs must and a swing is all you have!
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brilliant. Thank you KevinR
simlpe when you know how 😁
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must be missing something here.
I've pick at random a thread. it's taken me to the begining of that thread as it always does. so now it is shows on my screen the oldest (i.e. first post)...
were is the " the date of the last update " to click on?
this is what i can see.
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yes I do that anyway, it's just that things would be so much simpler if you could set which way around you would like the posts in a thread to be displaid. Newest or oldest post first.
I find that Newest post first make it much easyer to follow
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I've never read all the posts, so haveing the unread post come up still means you have to search thorugh them to find the post you want to read.
I see the on the new activity page there is a order option.
could this not then, also be added to the normal Forum pages?
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well she's 60 years old 🍰 and for the last 39 years she's been resting with bit done here and bits done there, but one day she will be back on the road.🙏
best to always plan for the future 😁
Pictures in my Gallery @
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Thanks for the comments. On all the other forums I am on.( this is the only Triumph ) there is a setting in our preferences that allow you to set first or last in a thread, but I can’t find it on here, maybe there isn't one?
The unread route is a good one but then it is difficult to find the thread again. A which way round option would be a good one. It's more convenient when I just want a quick read of a forum.
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Is there a way to get the latest (newest) post to come up first. I've look in my settings but can not see a post setting section.
At the moment when I click on a subject thread, it will show the first post (oldest) in that thread. which means you have to click on the next page and the next until you find the newest post. Can this be changed so it goes strat to the newset post?
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looking for a headlinig for my 948 coupe. or the same type of finish matirial
it's the old type with sort of orange peel finish. anyone got any ideas
heres a pic of the old origainal bit
Strange exhaust part?
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the plate on the underside of the centre outrigger ( that atached to the chassis) had holes in the middle on my original chassis. I can remember they were'nt on some new ones I had bought so I drill them to make them look the same.
must had fitted to them... some how