Peter Truman

talking Alternators the Sprint developed a light knock on idle I couldn't locate exactly where it was with the big screwdriver but didn't appear to be any bearings etc, so in frustration & having a couple of new Alternators I decided to fit one in place of the original just in case it was that well after two big scratches with blood on the back of my left hand and a 3in bloody scratch on my arm and a big bruise on the right hand hand I still had the noise, when my wounds heal I'll put the old Alt back!! & will fix the middle big Lucar at the same time the wire into the Lucar is getting flexible and very thin! Sorry for a little drift here, the source of noise after removing the rocker cover & plug tubes which is big on a Sprint I found the steel cam wheel support bracket had "work fractured" and broken off and was rattling around in the cam cover touching the chain, all was OK and the bracket is only used when removing and fitting the head so is not reqd for normal operation, so I got out of jail there! The bolt on the cam wheel inner sleeve which is used only when the bracket is connected is knarled up but doesn't affect the cam operation but why did the bracket fail when it's disconnected in normal operation, the chain is tight and cam wheel all tight and camshaft is good and tight with no abnormal wear/movement? Time to rebuild the spare Sprint engine to be ready in case! There's always something to do!

Were currently hovering around $2Aus here for 91 Octane petrol, late last year it was around $1.10A, Gas heating is expensive even tho we have our own supply off shore, retailers quote something about world pricing parity (what we can charge to make even bigger profits), this winter I'm going to use the house Air Cons in reverse cycle as its supposedly a lot cheaper, may need a 4th big unit for the front of the house tho,

On Spitfires not Vitesse and therefore presumably the GT6 as the starter motor is on the drivers side and the gearbox tunnel is therefore wider on that side. can’t remember one on my Herald 1200 in the 60’s. othees may know more and correct the above

Yep have a selection of those slotted head locknuts in the smaller sizes, never knew their specific name! I got them from my son 20 plus years ago when he was an apprentice aircraft mechanic, they appear to be a special material. The car ones I have seen have 3 dimples in the top ring which crimp on the male thread. I flew RC Helicopters 30 years ago and I think the handful of lock nuts I brought for the heli cost a small fortune, the construction instructions advised thread lock but with the vibrations involved I wanted something better! Adding a gyro to the heli made life a lot easier to fly! I still have an uncompleted 1mt wingspan Spitfire RC plane in the garage and have all the gear to finish must do it! Thanks for the info.

Are those the locknuts with no plastic parts having a deformed top lip, ie 3 dimples in? I've learnt something today, thanks.

Don't know how you all would survive here in Aus where you can pass on the inside or outside of the road, hey it works BUT you do get the idiots on the freeway who switch from the fast lane across the middle to the slow lane then back again just to get one car ahead, then there's the young chinese girl sat at 95kph in the outside fast 100kph lane, I'm doing the max speed so I'm staying here "no one should be going faster", then of course all modern speedo's except my Sprint read fast so an indicated 105kph is actually 100! The Sprint reads low 100appears to be 105 probably due to the tyre choice! All I know is when I'm doing an indicated 100kph down the freeway in overdrive I'm passing everything, so I assume it reads low!!!

Try a Vitesse Mk2 Rotoflex rear pipe from the rear outrigger, along the outside of the chassis around the back of the diff bridge upright, then along the top of the chassis, but then how to get to the rubber pipe connecting to the steel pipe thro the boot floor! It has so many bends and offsets that it has that many potential alignments but only one right one, but first you have to work out which end of the pipe is front or rear, I nearly went mad lying under the car with the pipe fouling everything, and wishing I'd taken photos, the coloured Triumph Ad photo I had of the Roto chassis set up bears no relationship to reality either! I fully understand why people start from scratch and do a DIY set up!

In the mid 80’s we had a XJ6 Series3 During a service The fuel filter was changed a few months later during summer it started to vapour lock my service chap removed the filter again and if was dirty and partially restricted so I removed the drain plug in the bottom of each tank and was very surprised at the amount of silt and grit that came out, the car at the time would have only been 4 years old as we’d brought it at only 2 year old Don’t know if it was due to the fillers being in the top of the rear deck and the caps were below the surface of the deck but from then on I flushed them every couple of years until the car written off by a semi trailer. in the classics I use an additive that keeps the petrol fresh and controls the moisture it cost enough so I hope it works!!

The two poster I installed with a friend at his garage had a hydraulic ram that thro a set of pullies pulled cables in each tower, and it had mechanical latch's as per Colin's approx 150mm that locked the mechanism a bugger when lowering as each step had to be delatched. The big issue to me as a civil engineer was the foundation under the towers to ensure the set up was stable, his tower baseplates would only have been 18in sq His shed was 60ft long by 25ft wide & 100years old and the concrete was rubbish, I made him dig out a foundation 3ft sq by 18in deep with a reinforced beam 18in sq between the tower foundations. I note more modern two tower hoists have a substantly bigger baseplates improving stability! The next problem has height clearance of the towers he was a house renovation tradie so measure thrice cut once, YES? He assured me the tower tops would just clear the corrugated iron roof, NUP missed by 2in as the foundations were slightly higher, he had to fit two skylights over the towers to get the reqd clearance, he just happened to have two skylights spare he'd removed from a previous job! The upside was one of the towers acted as a support/brace to the ageing roof structure which had seen dubious modifications and repairs and had been damaged by fire over the 100yrs, when in a previous life it had been the maintenance workshop for a sand quarry.

Colin it appears there's a detour at every corner! lucky there's no roundabouts

Similarly in water supply repairing or replacing asbestos pipe keep it wet put bits in big plastic bags and take to a special tip all very costly. we air scoured reticulation asbestos water pipes with alternating pulses of air and water down the pipe to dislodge deposits it also stripped off some of the inner lining of the pipe but the asbestos fibres were not dislodged so process was considered safe and ok.

I have a spare set of original asbestos ones but no post/courier service would touch them!! lost a pair of Type 14 brake calipers (scrapped by courier) like that because the pads were still fitted!

Blame predictive text Matthew I do! sorry if I upset you, Peter T

Must check have the calibration graphs somewhere

Mine have the knob and detent ball but the knob has (-) left (+) right from Zero, so is one klick all the way left then forward one click?

That's the filler plug right and up from the reverse shaft bolt, Matthew I just checked the single rail and 3 rail box's and its on the UK drivers side. I wouldn't remove the reverse shaft bolt to apply a sealing washer without having access to the top of the box so you can reposition the shaft when putting the bolt back in.

would love to know how that circular saw got there? Fitting end to a Chinese truck! After Covid and China's attack on Australian goods and verbal attempt at bullying against Aus' the PRC is definitely on the nose here.

Lindsey I have the same problem but my Sprint has the same lockable cap as PH, I found a near soft poly washer that fit in the jar of odds and sorts but would like a suitable permanent replacement, so will stay watching

Carb looks good but the box has had a hard life!

I have an then new Aus made Lucas 15ACR in the Spit 20yrs old when I converted it, English Lucas 15ACR in the Vitesse converted in 74 still working, the 76 Sprint is the original Lucas but a new diode pack 5 years ago. I do have a couple of spares JUST in case new Bosch/Lucas and a relatively new Prestolite A127 that I had to put a new regulator pack in. It could be I’ve just been lucky as fellow club members over the years have had several replacements due to Lucas failures but they have stuck with reco Lucas units

in this 21st century and we've learnt nothing, dictators ambitions! hopefully the Oligarchs will sort him out when their free movement and loss of income/assets start to hit them where it hurts, he's only in power whilst he has their backing, good to see some Russian peoples objecting & he calls them Traitors! he's a nasty bit of work! Could the integration of Ukraine also be about Russia's wealth here are some interesting facts re Ukraine's resources and potential wealth

If there's pitting at the end and under the hose interface, bead blasting to remove ALL white stuff then use JB Weld to fill and reprofile it works well and when sanded the same colour as Aluminum. I've done it a couple of times on special Herald/Spit/T2000 Thermo covers & a friend rebuilt his Jag's water pump mounting similarily.

I had a similar one early 80's think it was American the oxygen was produced using pellets in a tube, similar two canister arrangement on a frame, worked well easy brazing

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Aah but if I remember correctly when is Front not actually FRONT, answer when it’s a Triumph rear transverse spring, when you put the FRONT stamp at the front you read it backwards and when the stamp is at the back of the spring it reads it frontwards. Just to confuse you further I believe In reality it makes no difference where the FRONT stamp is located I’ll get my hat and coat on the way out! It’s why I love Triumphs there just illogical.