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I hope you all had a good Christmas. Greetings for the NEW YEAR I recently decided to repair my gear box top and gear shift lever system. The leaver was waving like a flag in the wind. I dismantled the one in the car, and two others. Two had emergency brake mounts, the third did not. Two levers...

Hi all, a question for transmission specialists. I had cause to remove the gear stick housing/shift tower due to sloppy movement in the stick, waving about like a flag in the wind. I have a couple of spare towers,(2). All seemed to be different, one had no attachment for the emergency hand...

Hi all. I have a noisy gearbox in the 29' speedster. I made the mistake of putting new gears in the box without also changing the layshafts. There is an all right gearbox out of a multi plate clutch type set up. My question is can I do a direct change over ie will the older box fit. Following...

A question re camshafts: I have a five bearing camshaft and the motor only has the normal three bearing camshaft housing in the block, Can I use this in my rebuild, or is it better to seek out the standard three bearing shaft. Is there a difference in the grinds on the shafts, and am I correct...

I Have a problem with what I think is the carb float setting. I have a rebuilt motor 40th over (self built), runs very nicely, but drive on the road or go down a steep drive ,it some times has a habit of what appears to be flooding. I have been told that an amount of black smoke comes from the...

During the rebuild of the diff and brake system I came across the problem of worn brake drum hubs. I had the problem of when the hubs were assembled on the axels the brake drum was rubbing on the the brake shoes, not just the lining but the metal shoe. The shoes had previously worn a small grove...

A progress report on my speedster, after a few years. Thanks to Keith (Wensum) I had a lovely body design to go on. As seen in one of the attachments (I hope) there was a lot of bits and what looked like a reasonable chassis. It came with a spare block thankfully as the original had a rusted out...

I am building a speedster,using all 'A' parts with standard motor and drive train parts. To add to the looks I would like to mount the hand /emergency brake on the out side of the body of the speedster. Do any of you good folks have any drawings-plans on how to acheive this. I beleive that some...

I have an option of fitting either a two or seven tooth steering box to a speedster I am building. The two tooth is in need of repair, ie the bearings that is , sector and steering rod bushes need replacing. The seven tooth also needs a repair kit. Both these are RHD steering. Not wishing to...

I have seven tooth steering gear and would like to remove the upper bushing. The bush is not in the best of condition but the rest of the assembly is reasonable. The controls require new anti-rattle bushes and to be streightened. My question is what is the recommended method of removal...

I am about to start and design and build a boat tail body for the 1929/30 chassis I have been rebuilding that was a roadster, cut up to make a utility/pick up.The chassis is RHD. At present I am looking for a source where I can find details of body component sizes, ie, dimensions of a fire wall...

I have just pulled apart two clutch bell housings to get the decent one of the two ready for painting. The housing fitted to the car had a long 1" shaft that both the brake pedal and clutch pedal were mounted on. The second and most useful only had a shaft long enough to fit the clutch pedal...

I have come to a stage of reassembling the motor in my 30' rolling chassis. The motor in the chassis when it was purchased was seized. I managed to un-seize it, but come to the cleaning stage, the scraper finished up going through the water jacket in several places...shame as the block had good...

I note with interest that the cross shaft brass bearings have no external means of lubrication. When I dismantled the brake system one of the cross shafts had a step in the end which I repaired by mig welding and slowly turning the shaft back to size, and the other, hand/emergency was repaired...

Brought home what is left of 1930 Roadster. Motor is CAY8460, and is seized.Myried of bits some of which may be useful, spare engine block, one spare wheel, a number of pistons, distributors, waterpump, and probably a number of parts not yet accounted for. There are a number fo prts to be...