Vintage Minor Register

Coming on Ian...!! Is it my eyes, or are the two front dumbirons not symmetrical either..! the right one (in picture) looks to curve in more to me...... hopefully just the angle of the picture!! I suspect that body builders back then had basic tools, not the high tech stuff that could be used today,...

Sorry Toby, you'll have to count me out of this one, life is far too flippin busy at the moment........ its non stop!!

Ronald.

I was recently lucky enough to win an entire 3spd box complete with an intact casing for a mere £75......... i only really bought it for the case, as my two spare ones each have at least one of not two lugs broken off!

The guy selling the bits also has a front axle beam.......... shame some wuppet welded a towing eye right in the middle of it........ could there be a WORSE place!!!!!!!!!

As far as i'm aware, it is still compulsory until at least october......... and acording to my mot tester he has had no information regarding the scrapping of mot';s on pre 1960 cars...........

Glad you got it sorted.......... out of interest, i have even timed up diesel pumps by 'ear'....!

Lee, as far as i'm aware its a 12/12 cam... i'll have to check the invoices...................

Halbe......... how come you've painted the copper oil pipes on the plug side, but not the feed on the carb side...???? i personally prefer to see them in copper, but not polished........ i'm sure they wouldn;t have been from factory..!

Don;t forget to take a video when you do the start up!!!!!!!!!

Actually not a bad buy for 3k......... would make an interesting thing to throw up a few hills!!!

Lee, its odd that you say your cam gave you more torque... on my engine i found it gave more power, but less bottom end torque..... not that it had much before, but seems more peaky now.........

When doing the timing on older engines, i find that the engine will tell you when its happy........ and likewise when its not......... get it running and see where its happiest.....

The easiest thing to do is ring them and ask, they're very knowledgable......... and i found very reasonable on price too!!!

I thought you were going to build an engine stand........ not a chassis for the workshop run-around!! looks far too smart to simply be a test bed!

We have these new type fingers on MT now, and the engine came back with a minor cover fitted.... so i can only assume he ground the bolts back to gain clearance....... although, knowing him he most likely sourced shallower headed bolts!

The description makes it sound like worn bevel gears......... they were the only parts not available new when we rebuilt our engine..... if it were worn keyways you wouldn;t see the gear jump, just the shaft....