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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - JonE - 17-11-2021

did he groan with the hardness of the material, or is that just an old wives' tail?

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Hedd_Jones - 19-11-2021

ve been pottering away fitting new springs etc to the grey saloon. Axle went in today fairly easily, save for loosing a locknut (it'll be under to tools somewhere).

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The car is sat on the axle now, just to start the settling process.

Also the blue saloon has a missfire at higher revs. Have changed the condensor and points, and rotor arm, sadly an orange cap came so didn't put that on. Also found the front plug was so loose I could turn by hand (oops). Still misses! ARGH. Will put the red cap on and order a coil (current one is going rusty!). If not the top end rebuild might be a sooner rather than later job.


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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bob Culver - 20-11-2021

Good to see the horizontal lead connectors, and brass at that! the exposure does not seem to matter. My RP used to labour in 3rd gear into Wellington winds with horizontal sea spray and never missed. The later Jowett Javelin with plugs adjacent the front wheels was another matter...... coloured leads and end connectors are positively rebarbitive (A word I learned from tv decades ago)
Incidentally without manual advance to play with, how do you entertain yourself when grinding up hills?

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Malcolm Parker - 20-11-2021

Regarding those horizontal plug lead ends, I have similar on the Ulster rep.  I found that number one plug lead was close enough to one of the head studs for the spark to jump across at times.   I put a 1" length of black shrink wrap tube over the joint where the HT lead enters the brass end and it cured the problem, as well as tidying up the appearance of the leads.  I do this routinely now when I make up plug leads.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Howard Wright - 20-11-2021

Hi

Sadly I had straight copper leads and brass plug connectors on the special.  But having fitted an electronic rev counter I had to change them for the less pretty carbon leads with suppressor plug caps.  This fully cured both the erratic behaviour of the rev counter but also flickering leds.

Cheers

Howard

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - David Stepney - 20-11-2021

I too have copper cored HT leads with horizontal brass ends on my car, and they are perfectly satisfactory. As Howard point out, though, they can be electrically noisy. However, if my passing is marked by other people's radios making strange noises, or their TV screens getting wavy lines, it is not my concern.

Onto the subject of this thread, as the little car had not been out since my trip to the tyre fitters some ten days ago, and it being dry this morning, I took the RP over to Llangynog to feed the horses.

On the way back, I made the acquaintance of a gentleman and his lady wife who were going for a run over to Bala from Llanfyllin in a very nicely presented late model Morris Minor Traveller. This is only the fourth time that I have seen a classic car over the Berwyns and only the second time, I have been able to chat with the owner, the last time being in the summer (when I was in the Polo) when I came across a Riley 12/4 special. So we spent a pleasant 15/20 minutes looking at each others cars and admiring them. Unfortunately, i had used up my eight exposures in the little Kodak, so haven't got a picture of it. However, so as not to completely disappoint those who like photos, herewith a selection representing my trip:-


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View over Cwm Rhiwarth


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Going down Bwlch y Carreg towards Llangynog


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The lane leading to the horses' paddock


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Car and Horses.


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I find that, throughout my various posts, there is plenty of mention of Llew the motoring dog, but he appears in photos only as a brown smudge. Anyway, here he is sitting in the back of the car waiting to go home.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - andrew34ruby - 20-11-2021

Today I left my Austin seven at home in the garage. Went for a ride in the sunny countryside in a slightly younger Austin. Coxwold, Byland Abbey, up Wass Bank, down Sutton Bank, Thirsk and home.

   

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - David Stepney - 20-11-2021

Andrew, Is that an A50 or A55 Cambridge?

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Bill Dixon - 20-11-2021

I would say an A50 or could be an A40.

RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - circeonya@hotmail.com - 20-11-2021

I envy the UK quiet picturesque country lanes that apprear in photos in this thread. We just don,t have that sort of thing in OZ, Within 100 miles of Melbourne it would be almost impossible in daylight hours to go more than a half a mile at Austin Seven speeds without a modern wanting to pass.