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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - RichardG - 22-07-2019

I’ve just discovered the problem with the windscreen is that where the stay attaches it’s been fitted upside down!

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Hedd_Jones - 22-07-2019

The last couple of evenings I thought id better give two of my sevens some TLC as we are off to Audlem this coming Sunday. One of the only shows I exhibit the cars.

Daughters RP. And my chummy.

Trouble is my chummy runs superbly, but the swine keeps conking out with no fuel in the bowl. I had wondered about a vapour lock and have wrapped the exhaust, but that didnt help. Nor did removing the filter, nor blowing up the pipe as suggested by the bearded wizzard. 

Tonight I put the carb off my grey saloon on it. And its fixed. So thr chummys carb needs a dose of looking at this next week so i can get the grey one back on the road. The rist horn has list its honk so I fixed that, and the drivers side headlamp went limp. So it got a dose of the spanner. I put the fuel filter back on too

I also aquired another exhaust whistle which should be more suitable. I shall have to unwrap the exhaust now!  

Hopefully all ready now. 

A question. Should my fan spindle be longer to bring the fan nearer the rad core?

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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Press - 23-07-2019

(22-07-2019, 05:55 PM)Chris KC Wrote: Tempted to suggest that if we're going to talk cameras we may need a separate thread for it.
Meanwhile here's my baby....(what's a computer?)
Lovely !

Always wanted a brass and wood camera (a nice Thornton Pickard)- nearest I got was a Kodak No 2 Folding Autotographic Brownie - one mounted on a contemporary tripod (circa 1926 ? - appropriate for a Chummy )

Back to Sevens- just fitted a new 6 volt No 3 battery to the saloon to replace a faulty one-the 1929 light shaft spins like a turbine after a starter clean- better do the Chummy next !!

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Reckless Rat - 23-07-2019

I have resisted the temptation to go and watch the tour de France today as it passes through our area. It's just too darned hot to go and stand somewhere for the best part of 3 to 4 hrs to watch the race pass in the blink of an eye. If you watch it on channel 4 then you can see what Rekkersland is like. Starts and finishes in Nimes today and then tomorrow the next stage leaves from the Pont du Gard heading towards the Alps. Rather them than me in this heat. I'm chilling (sort of) in my budgie smugglers - its 36° in the shade here today. Pastis time beckons...

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - bob46320 - 23-07-2019

Pastis before 5:00 pm, should be ashamed of yourself Sir !! However, ice cream with choc sauce and a bit of Drambuie yesterday evening helped me drift off into never never land - well, the bedroom was 29 deg C.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Duncan Grimmond - 23-07-2019

I've just rolled up for the Dunkerque Dover ferry with an hour or so to spare. On my way back from the GP Retro at LE Puy Notre-Dame.
What a weekend, it was better than I remember the last one, having missed two due  to moving workshop and an inconsiderate son choosing to get married the same weekend last year.

Greeted like a long lost brother doesn't come close.A good turnout of sevens in open top format, Ulsters sports specials and much modified low-slung jobbies
I only seem to be able to add one pic from the iPad but will add more. This is Biil's and my car in the yard at his place waiting to go up to the paddock.
A bit warm outside the ferry terminal, 38* my brain can't cope with renaming pics in this heat!

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 25-07-2019

Enjoyed the Peak District (and North Staffordshire) Run and then had rather less fun messing with the trailer that Mike Costigan and I will use to take a Brooklands to the Scottish A7 rally this weekend.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Barry - 25-07-2019

   
With Duncan and Bill at GPR Puy Notre-Dame. Sue with Ian Wilson's fast Austin Seven special 'The Wasp' behind (but not for long!)

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Dave Mann - 25-07-2019

    A nice pearl cabriolet for sale at the H & H auction in Buxton yesterday, price range £7500 to £8500, somewhat OTT considering the rather wavy edge to the rear wheel arches. Those in line paper fuel filters are designed for a pressure feed and are not suitable for a gravity feed Hedd. What you need is a glass bowl filter like this Briggs & Stratton one.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Hedd_Jones - 26-07-2019

Dave,

I hear what your saying, removing the filter had no effect on the conking out, nor did blowing up what appeared to be a perfectly free flowing fuel pipe.

So I robbed the carb off the grey saloon, fitted it to the chummy (still sans filter), and problem has gone away. I then put the filter back on as there is certainly a little muck in my tank (its visible in the filter). And still no problems. I've since done about 20 mile in fairly short bursts.

I'm off to Audlem in it in Sunday so we shall see.

The problem with the chummys carb is that the engine dies, and when you stop the bowl is empty. If you take the lid off then fuel flows freely. And off you go again. Having had the carb rebuilt with additional (12months later) TLC to the needle I was sure it wasn't the carb. Generally this is during climbing a bank or when driving fast on the open road, generally, but not always, so I thought it was a fuel flow or vapour lock.

As noted the bearded wizard is always a good man for bouncing ideas off. And as a result of a consultation and his suggestion I think the bowl lid, which is not the carbs original may be too tight in the top of the bowl, which means the needle isn't as free as perhaps it should be, and isn't self centring, or is forced in an angle and binds up occasionally. Or perhaps at a certain rev range cos of the vibration, or indeed temperature. At present the lid only fits when in a certain orientation, and requires a deliberate push down to sit properly on the carb body.

I've not done it yet, but I plan to file the lip on the lid so that it is a rattling good fit in the body of the carb, as is the lid on the carb presently fitted, and as are the lids on the other carbs I have in the spares box. I may install the new gubbins on the present lid on one of the spares yet. We shall see how I feel on the day and if I can find my needle files.