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« Reply #6600 on: July 28, 2013, 10:46:36 PM » |
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...or heat reflective matting. But -it -was -sooo -shiney.  |
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« Reply #6601 on: July 29, 2013, 06:52:13 PM » |
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+ love the wheel, match's the car to a T 
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« Reply #6602 on: July 29, 2013, 07:13:57 PM » |
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Chatting to Mr Newbie this afternoon, he's pretty sure early, split screen Moggy Minors had a woodroffe key on a tapered shaft & later Morris 1000s had a multi splined shaft. I honestly can't remember which it is, but if it's the later one, (think it might be), he reckons they're the same as classic Minis. Which means I can buy a Mini steering wheel hub & adapt it to suit, which would save an awful lot of work.
Tell me you scrapped one of those last week as well Mike!
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« Reply #6603 on: July 29, 2013, 08:42:28 PM » |
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Correct re Woodruff and splines . |
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« Reply #6604 on: July 29, 2013, 10:00:59 PM » |
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Keep the wheel Andy.You can save up for the cam,rings, and other engine bits over the winter. "Sorted"
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« Reply #6605 on: July 29, 2013, 10:09:06 PM » |
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To be honest, I've grown kinda attached to my old "worn out" engine. Hope I'm not tempting fate, but at the moment, it's doing pretty well.
It'll get treated to a new fast road cam & piston rings etc at some point, but my spare engine was bought cheap for spares, (I've already robbed 2 pushrods from it), & is in just as unknown condition as the one I'm running.
Heavy rain here earlier. The tarpaulin over the Pop's not very waterproof, so I reckon I'll have some de-rusting to do before it's next outing.
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« Reply #6606 on: July 29, 2013, 10:42:53 PM » |
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Lucky you didn't go to Brooklands on Sunday, it poured down. I was only about a mile away and I wondered if you were there.
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« Reply #6607 on: July 30, 2013, 02:10:48 PM » |
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Only a toss of the coin decision between Brooklands & the steam fair I went to. I was at Brooklands for the Mopar meet a few weeks ago, so looked around the museum then, & will be back in a couple of weeks for the Detonators' Hotrod Rumble, so thought I'd go somewhere different.
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« Reply #6608 on: July 30, 2013, 09:55:25 PM » |
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It rained most of the morning here today, so first job when I pulled the cover off the Pop was to scrub the surface rust off with the angle grinder wire brush. Loon thinks he has enough satin clear lacquer to quickly blow the bodywork over, just masking it up as it stands, to keep the worst of the rust at bay for now. So I'll try & do that in the next few weeks.
I unbolted the Moggy steering wheel & checked the column -yes, it is a later, fully splined one. So I bought a classic Mini steering wheel hub from Ebay this evening & hopefully we can marry it up to the wheel.
I've got used to the Moggy wheel now, so the tractor one looked a bit odd at first when I tried it in place, but I like it, so it's staying.
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« Reply #6609 on: July 30, 2013, 09:56:22 PM » |
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« Reply #6610 on: July 31, 2013, 10:35:33 AM » |
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yep,i think the tractor one is better.
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yes but can blue men sing the whites?
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« Reply #6611 on: July 31, 2013, 04:24:07 PM » |
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I think so to
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and
if it can go wrong it will go wrong
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« Reply #6612 on: July 31, 2013, 07:20:38 PM » |
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That's good then! It seemed enormous when I put it in, (missus), but it's exactly the same diameter & dish as the Moggy wheel, so must just be because it's bare metal.
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« Reply #6613 on: July 31, 2013, 08:55:09 PM » |
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Yep, tractor one is good!
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You don't stop havin fun because you get old - you get old if you stop havin fun!
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« Reply #6614 on: July 31, 2013, 10:01:51 PM » |
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prefer the morris one, :-/
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