Post by Penguin45 on Apr 29, 2017 19:25:08 GMT
As mentioned elsewhere, the polyurethane bobbins were a complete disaster and had to be re-done with the ordinary Halfords rubber ones. They seem to be holding up all right.
Seeing as I got Eugenie out of the garage today, I was able to have a proper clear up and sweep out and pull the Red Dog in for a bit of work. The indicator arm has not cancelled when turning right for quite a while. Removing the assembly from the steering column showed that one of the plastic spring arms had snapped off. I had a rather grotty spare on the shelf, which I cleaned up and tested. This showed that the horn and high beam settings didn't work. A few minutes with some fine sand paper and a jewellers file got the contacts working, so that's been fitted.
Next up was the choke cable. It doesn't lock, which drives me mad. Again, I had a spare on the shelf. Out with the ashtray and its frame, then the mini glovebox above. After that, the contortions of undoing the nut and feeding the new one through. This one has a solid wire and stays where it's put nicely. Except that I found that the choke lever at the carb end wasn't quite coming off completely. Plenty of oil and some manipulation sorted that out.
The mini glovebox buzzes on a quite regular basis (Have you checked that, AndrewA?
). A closer look showed that two of the flat rivets used to retain the papier maché box to the tinplate front surround had come away, allowing one end to swing about. Solved with contact adhesive.
I'll do some refitting after I get back from the rally tomorrow.
Chris.
Seeing as I got Eugenie out of the garage today, I was able to have a proper clear up and sweep out and pull the Red Dog in for a bit of work. The indicator arm has not cancelled when turning right for quite a while. Removing the assembly from the steering column showed that one of the plastic spring arms had snapped off. I had a rather grotty spare on the shelf, which I cleaned up and tested. This showed that the horn and high beam settings didn't work. A few minutes with some fine sand paper and a jewellers file got the contacts working, so that's been fitted.
Next up was the choke cable. It doesn't lock, which drives me mad. Again, I had a spare on the shelf. Out with the ashtray and its frame, then the mini glovebox above. After that, the contortions of undoing the nut and feeding the new one through. This one has a solid wire and stays where it's put nicely. Except that I found that the choke lever at the carb end wasn't quite coming off completely. Plenty of oil and some manipulation sorted that out.
The mini glovebox buzzes on a quite regular basis (Have you checked that, AndrewA?
). A closer look showed that two of the flat rivets used to retain the papier maché box to the tinplate front surround had come away, allowing one end to swing about. Solved with contact adhesive.I'll do some refitting after I get back from the rally tomorrow.
Chris.
. The engineers knew what they were doing when they designed it
