Peter Truman Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 Similarly I use the bonnet locks on both the Spit & Vitesse to stop the catch's opening whilst driving. Your bonnet catch's are in extremely good condition are the NOS, if so who was the supplier please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeee Posted April 21 Author Report Share Posted April 21 Sorry but no info on the bonnet catches. It was a year 2000 restoration and i purchased beginning of last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeee Posted April 21 Author Report Share Posted April 21 (edited) Drive it day today. So with my son in law in his Caterham poottled off to The Pride and Joy show at Exbury in the New Forest. Few photos. On the way home could hear a rumbling / knocking / soft rhythmical noise from rear offside. Could be nothing but could be looking at rear hub , driveshaft, uj overhaul. Oh well....... Triumph the gift that gives on giving. To be continued. Edited April 21 by Richeee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeee Posted April 30 Author Report Share Posted April 30 Yesterday crammed myself into the passenger seat of my son in laws Caterham , introducing him to my classic friendly MOT tester. Laff that was at 6'3 19st. Then trussed up with a racing harness. Not a pretty sight. Any way mot achieved. Fog light needed a wiggle but all good. Got a bit of an advisory on front swivel. Ball joint on top and swivel to press into bottom wishbone. They will be done next week or so. Our garage is superb. Any advisory he advises we do straight away. Today my brother popped over with some of my nephew gear. My brother is emigrating to Cyprus to wind away his retirement round a pool with a beer. His boy is staying with me before moving into digs next week. Any way hes been clearing out his garage. So i aquired some of my own tools back again. Also one of those bucket grit bladters. Halfords 20 50 oil, grit blasting gun. And a gunsons gas tester. Happy days. Back to decorating. My spit is on show at Goodwood this weekend for the Breafast meeting along side my son in laws Caterham. Will have to get polish out. To be continued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeee Posted April 30 Author Report Share Posted April 30 (edited) Not me. Im just a bit larger in height and girth. Fortnately roof was off. Edited April 30 by Richeee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeee Posted Sunday at 19:48 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 19:48 Driving back from Goodwood today got in a bit of a pickle with my gearbox. Stuck in 3rd i thought but did not quite realise what was going on. As i drove on after a bit of brute force and ignorance ( goes with the moonraker terrority ) began to suspect that the gear lever was not sprung one way or the other. I.e. 1st 2nd or 3rd 4th. And i may have just been stirring porridge and confused it. Can any body remind / inform me if the spitfire 1500 gearbox has a location spring on the gearbox and should it be first 2nd or 3rd 4th. After i thought about it and made deliberate concious gear selection it seemed to be ok. Next job is to remove the tunnel anyway to sort out the speedo cable any way. So can have a butchers whilst there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johny Posted Tuesday at 22:31 Report Share Posted Tuesday at 22:31 No spring I know of on gear lever. In neutral it moves from side to side freely so you push it as far left as possible and forwards for first and back for second. Then you push it to the right as far as it'll go and forward for third with fourth being straight back. If it doesnt work like this theres something wrong, wear in linkage, bent components, poorly adjusted reverse stop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richeee Posted yesterday at 06:25 Author Report Share Posted yesterday at 06:25 Thank you. Thought that was the case. But the mind plays trick. As i said got to remove tunnel to fit new speedo cable to overdrive right andle drive as ham fisted hands broke the clip on the speedo cable connection behind the dash. Will at the same time check the clutch hydraulics and fit a new servo. Linkage etc will be checked. May have been momentary blip. Thank you for confirming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johny Posted yesterday at 06:41 Report Share Posted yesterday at 06:41 The single rail unit the 1500 should have is normally really positive on gearchanges compared with the earlier type which has bushes that being much mnore exposed regularly wear out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve P Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago 18 hours ago, johny said: Then you push it to the right as far as it'll go and forward for third with fourth being straight back. If you do that in my single rail O/D box in my Herald you will find yourself in Reverse. Doesn`t seem to be any sort of "gate" between 3rd and reverse. S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johny Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago wow that sounds a bit dangerous! Never had a single rail but this gear knob from a Spitfire 1500 shows how it should work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted 18 hours ago Report Share Posted 18 hours ago the single rail remote housing has a spring plunger/detent to provide the resistance to pressing right of the 3/4th gate and then fwd. to engage reverse Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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