I have coil and battery, so this is not about Austin 7s. On another forum, selling a Matchless with a magneto, a poster has said that retarding the spark is not necessary and in fact that the magneto produces a weaker spark when retarded. I always retarded the spark on my motorcycles to avoid kick back. But more importantly, I don't see how retarding the spark would weaken it. Shouldn't the mag produce a consistent spark but retarding just causes the spark to occur at a different point in the engine's cycle?

Erich

Hello.

Please can someone assist me with a couple of questions.

On my 1937 Ruby I'm in the process of removing some of the play(not all) in the steering.

I've found the n/s track rod end where there is clear excessive play in the pin even when filled with grease.

I can see the parts I need from several of the cherished suppliers but the pin is solid in the track rod. So Im not wasting efforts/ causing damage, with the cotter pin removed but uppermost what is the correction direction to drive the pin out of the track rod end?

My other question is regarding suspension.

It has definite lean to the left side. Not just on one wheel but the whole left side.What components can cause this.

I've tried searching on the old forum but haven't found answers but that might be me searching with the wrong terms.

Thanks for any pointers

cheers Dave

Apparently the factory had a service van in their company colour.


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Does anyone know what colour it was ?  I thought I had read somewhere that it was Maroon, but no other details given such as wheel and wing colour and the colour of the "Austin " script.
Any help you can offer would be gratefully received.
Stephen

Good evening all. This is my first foray onto the new site and very good it looks.
As well as being an Austin Seven enthusiast I am a bibliophile with what I thought was a copy of most A7 books. However I have recently seen 'The Austin Seven' by Anita Jackson priced at £431.47p on an online auction site. I have never seen this book before, does anyone know anything about it?
Regards from Staffordshire, the creative county.
Stuart

Did anyone else catch the TV programme last night ,  Quest Channel , 9pm to 10pm , " What's In The Barn"

Although the prog . was about a motorcycle museum in USA , there were several shots of a green Austin Seven with discs on the wheels and Supercharged or something similar on the flanks . The owner was a well known race driver in the dim and distant past . It is an awesome machine , or at least I think so .
I am a bit vague on the details , but don't know how to view the prog on catchup .

Merv  

With the exception of the A7CA chassis register, can anyone advise if these is a list available of the original car numbers, chassis numbers and engine numbers for A7 vehicles that left the Austin production line?

Congratulations to Bob Hughes - the 200th person to register on the new Forum!

Are the large sized screw in core plugs found on the early blocks available anywhere?
I could make some but if they're a standard size it would save some hard work.

Thanks

Charles

My new to me "special" ( Cambridge finned head, 2x SU H? carbs) came with NGK B6HS plugs. Looking at the old forum people were using NGK BP5ES plugs successfully. As I think a couple of my plugs were dodgy I bought 4 new BP5ES (less than £6 delivered for the 4) which arrived today. The reach is about 20mm compared to the current ones about. 13mm. Are these new plugs going to be ok do you think?

   

Has anybody experience of fitting the Bowdenex conversion for front brake cables?

I dismantled everything many years ago and now trying to put it back together again.

The king pins are done, brakes back together with new linings, new bearings and all back together.

Now I come to re-fit the Bowdenex cables. At the backplate is a threaded hole through towards the brake shoes, and on the cable is an end support for the outer cable. This is threaded and screws into the hole in the backplate. To screw this in means revolving the whole cable assembly!!!!!!!!!   Is this really how it's done???

And then, should there be a nut on the other side of the backplate? If so, how do I gain access to put this nut on? Surely I don't have to dismantle the bearings/hub/brake shoes again just to put a nut on the end.