Vintage Minor Register

Breaking news! The Saturday Vintage Picnic will take place at Shelsley Walsh, not Kyre Park. We'll still be gathering at the Park in the evening for our 25th Anniversary Hog Roast. I received a warm invitation fro Shelsley and it seemed too good to turn down, specially as we will be gathering at the...

The weather is set fair for tomorrow's meet. Now I have my '29 tourer running well, I'll be bringing it for its first official outing in my ownership!

Or it may be the kingpin bushes are too tight. I'll know when I jack it up and loosen off the track rod ends.

A couple of Minor articles have been published in the VSCC recently. The latest Light Car section magazine carried an article by Clive Hamilton-Gould on his 45 year ownership of his 1930 tourer, and the latest VSCC Bulletin carried my article on my entry in the Light Car Welsh weekend. Clive's artic...

Nope - not fitted to the Minor. Just a thin card gasket.

Ian

Ah, that's the problem then. I don't know the history of your car, but I know that when rebuilding the ash frames, it is not always easy to get the position of the instrument board spot on compared to the pedals. If you are running our of length, I'd suggest you have a slightly longer rod made.

So in your photo, the original arrangement can be seen at top left. You can see the threaded hole in the cross shaft attachment. The rod should screw right through this hole and push on the flat bit which is part of the throttle pedal. When you screw the rod down (to open the throttle), the rod obvi...

Not really useful, but you can see the bronze mount and the black steel pedal lever.

Correction. The female thread is in the driver's side (obviously!) cross shaft bronze support and the rod impinges on a steel flat which forms part of the throttle pedal lever. I'll post the best photo I have in a mo ...

Hi Jonathan, I don't have a picture handy but I'll try to describe. On the throttle cross-shaft, you should find a bronze fitting with a Whitworth female thread. The slow running control rod simply screws through it and pushes on another bronze fitting that is attached to the cross-shaft, so screwin...

A big day today. The Friday Tour is complete! I must say that the route is one of our best, but I don't want to give too much away. Suffice to say that the route is incredibly scenic and the stops along the way will be both enjoyable and thought-provoking. Tomorrow the detailed work begins on the Sa...

Just put my entry in. George Rodford will be navigating for me.

Who else is entering?

Thanks for that, Paul.

Useful information.

Ian

The June meet is on Sunday 15th. I am planning to bring my '29 tourer, which is now sorted performance-wise by getting the ignition timing right and also working on the carb., where I found the small filter in the float bowl almost completely clogged. One thing I noticed about driving it is how free...

Good morning of work this morning. I finally got the ignition timing dead right and I also replaced the SV carburetter bowl with the correct flat-topped type. It remains to be seen if I have any fuel vapourization issues! When I took the SV bowl off, I found the small bronze filter almost completely...