Graham C

Interesting price £400, 7 years ago I paid £250 for mine on eBay. Graham

Hello Alex I wrote a detailed account on the forum covering this. It is located under the gearbox section. It is possible I enjoyed the challenge of doing this. The bell housing needs altering, prop shaft reducing, a small section of chassis cutting out for the angle driver, a speedo counter cable from a 2000, approx 5 feet long and a support plate for the OD making up The gear box tunnel needs making longer . I quite like the new position of the gear lever . Yes it is a harder route but can be enjoyable than a standard switch. Graham

Thank you everyone who replied, bite the bullet and took them to Andrew Turner, only 45 mins from me. He has overhauled them, look like new. Really good job. All parts clean and zinc plated plated parts replaced with newly plated ones. All internals replaced with new. Temp compensationon cleaned and reset, both found to be stuck open. Andrew is a very knowledgeable person and very helpful. Provide good instructions on setting them up on the car. Had a really good chat about old suppliers and swooped stories. So with wear and the temp compensation being open never would have sorted these out. So now I have lovely clean carbs in a dirty engine bay, next job? Graham

Go on cut the nut off, you know you want to do it. Once you have sorted it you will feel a sense of satisfaction. If you want to replace the suspension arm, talk to Spitfire Graveyard. That if you do not wish to recut the threads as Pete L suggested. Graham

Neil, I had a mini clubman estate in the same colour, it was my Mum's and passed onto me. The BL Chustnut Brown was a wonderful colour when polished. I sold it to buy my Spitfire which I still have. Really enjoyed the mini. Amazing how many different styles of cars came from the mini. No one really does that anymore. Graham

Was that the battered mars bars? Graham

Will be the hot sun in Scotland! Graham

Looks like you are making good progress. Besides the wing what other body work do you need to do? You changed the clutch slave cylinder, was the clutch free? Graham

Doug, What was Coverdale quality like? Are they sown together or formed like the originals. Prices for GT6 ones are very reasonable. Graham

Colin and Mark, I feel for both you. I too had to get up early to tow two horses around. Payment was a cheese burger, cost was diesel. Now daughter has a partner who likes horses and now she drives herself around. This if good for me but I actually miss it now. Now I do not get a burger but still pay for the landrover. She returned the Landrover last week and yesterday borrowed it again. Spent the week attempting to remove horse smell as she has just moved stables, and left some rubber matting in the car in the hot weather, repaired the strip around the step where she caught it on something. Wait for car to be returned empty of fuel and continue getting rid of smell. Graham

Thank you Marcus for the detailed explanation. Will revisit my bad solenoid. Graham

Every year after storing my GT6 I have running problems with my stromberg, similarly my Spitfire running on SU very little problem. The question is this normal for stromberg, should I have them refurbished and by whom, or convert to SU carbs and again which ones? Just get feed up with running problems and having them returned every year. Last two years has been popping on de acceleration last year retuned and ran fine this year back to same problem. Graham

Colin, the car looked good. After the hard work presenting cars for sale I generally wonder why I am selling. I must admit I was tempted by it, but like Karl SWMBO would say unless you sell one of your car's. Very nice car Graham

I agree spot welding is quicker and has a better presentation. Agree vat free days are go value. I buy equipment on those days as well. Paul, your reasoning sounds good. Graham

The spot welder at nearly £700 is a serious piece of kit. Teeth must pay well Brooky. At the end of the day the better the equipment the easier it becomes, but you need the skill/ knowledge to go with it. Brooky, as I have said before really good work. Just give me your address and I will drop my GT 6 around ☺️. Graham

Hello Marcus Thanks for the picture, I was hoping someone would post one and also the explanation. All the Information gives me a better idea. Cheers Graham

Thank you Pete, I have not stripped one of these down before. Am I correct then that the housing contains the windings which creates the magnetic force to move the shuttle inside the brass core, so besides the small brass shuttle and spring, is their another core/ shuttle that comes out? I have not been able to find a diagram. I agree those small pins are pigs to remove/drill out so that is good I do not need attack them. Graham

Hello I have manged to sort out my OD due to a faulty solenoid. I replaced it with an old one which I had in store. Following additional research I came across a comment stating that good solenoids rattling, which is interesting as the good one does and the bad one did not. However the bad one could be activated if connected to a battery. So with regards to the bad one, besides removing the circlip and replacing the O ring on the shuttle can I strip the solenoid down and clean it out? If so the body is held in by pins, do these need to be drilled out or can these be pulled out as they are not flush with the body housing? Graham

2 JohnD' s and 3 Peter Lewis. Colin L going back to the 90's and becoming younger. A new normal. What is the world coming to? I am off to the garage for normal normal. Graham

I was worried with seeing another JohnD, anyway you can't have enough JohnD' s. Makes for an interesting place. Graham

Colin, if you have gone back to 1995 do you feel younger and how are the aches and pains? Graham

The overhang of the basket goes to the prop shaft tunnel, the vertical face goes to the sill. So you have two passenger side ones. Hope this helps. Just need to find someone with two driver baskets. Try Spitfire Graveyard again. Graham

I bet you ground them back to fit however the heat from braking expanded the the metal plate, so sticking the brakes on all the time. Graham

Karl beat it to the submit, must stop talking to SHMBO.

How are you removing it? In the past I have used white spirit and scrapping it off. White spirit if left, long enough, you can wipe it off. If you have enough money you could have professionally stripped. If you painted over the undersea you may end up with the top cracking. Graham