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Re: Squire's voitures
And the upside is that all that restoration work will indeed make it much more likely that only routine maintenance and inspection will be required in future. I do toy with the idea of going right through my Minor but I lack the drive/skill/inclination to do so.
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Not had much of a chance to crack on with this lately. I have fitted new BMC handbrake cables as part of the refurbishment. There wasn't anything wrong with the existing ones (how often do you have to replace a handbrake cable?) but they were not a matching pair and years of greasing had made them fairly disgusting. I am pushing the boat out on this car so anything I get that is better I will use.
When I replaced the brake pipe to the rear axle there was a persistent weep from the m/cyl. union. I had slackened it and tightened it repeatedly, trying to feel the pipe had seated, to no avail. So today I removed the union, pulled out the pipe and replaced it, holding the pipe upwards in the bore with a piece of cable, whilst screwing the union in. As this seems to have screwed down further than before I am cautiously optimistic that this has been re-seated for good. There has been plenty of discussion about the location of the master cylinder and this job was very awkward, I needed to be in two places at once, both in and under the car, because you can barely fit a finger in the chassis rail to manipulate the pipe. Anyway, hopefully that's the end of that.
I like indoor jobs at this time of year so I made up some new headlamp wiring harnesses using the correct cloth braided covered cable. This type of covering persisted on various sub-looms long after main looms went all PVC. Maybe to use up existing stocks?
This is what the vast majority of originals look like now anyway. Got to have my engine bay spik and span when the day comes.
When I replaced the brake pipe to the rear axle there was a persistent weep from the m/cyl. union. I had slackened it and tightened it repeatedly, trying to feel the pipe had seated, to no avail. So today I removed the union, pulled out the pipe and replaced it, holding the pipe upwards in the bore with a piece of cable, whilst screwing the union in. As this seems to have screwed down further than before I am cautiously optimistic that this has been re-seated for good. There has been plenty of discussion about the location of the master cylinder and this job was very awkward, I needed to be in two places at once, both in and under the car, because you can barely fit a finger in the chassis rail to manipulate the pipe. Anyway, hopefully that's the end of that.
I like indoor jobs at this time of year so I made up some new headlamp wiring harnesses using the correct cloth braided covered cable. This type of covering persisted on various sub-looms long after main looms went all PVC. Maybe to use up existing stocks?
This is what the vast majority of originals look like now anyway. Got to have my engine bay spik and span when the day comes.
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Well, I don't keep gibbons in there...
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Gave the big one a wash as it needed one. I’m hoping to garage it over winter. There will be minimal miles being driven in this car now, not only because winter but I have a few major jobs to do - one king pin, the back axle oil seals and the brake servo is acting up. That was an expensive new one which cost a lot and it’s been on around 3 years. Not happy. I now have an original I am hoping to refurbish.
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That Humber does look the bollocks.
As I suspected I was right about everything.
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Cheers! It sounds it too. Just brought me back to the NE this evening, unfortunately some daft fuck decided to commit an act of stupidity, crashed and stopped the job on the M1. As I had to use the brakes the faulty servo held them on so once past that twatbasket and the wreckage I stopped on the hard shoulder to administer the servo a thump. Then it was reasonably plain sailing. Glad I fitted those under bonnet lights.
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Clayton servo I take it ? They are seriously shit even when new. I had one on my Jensen and could never get it to work reliably so binned it and fitted a lockheed remote servo from a Rover P6. Originality is great until you start to use it everyday then the upgrades make sense.
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It's a Girling Mk2A iirc. Used to be very prone to sticking.
I have PM'd the Squire about a repair option.
Humber looks bloody lovely btw.
I have PM'd the Squire about a repair option.
Humber looks bloody lovely btw.