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RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Nick Lettington - 18-06-2023
(18-06-2023, 03:59 PM)Howard Wright Wrote:(18-06-2023, 03:11 PM)Nick Lettington Wrote:(18-06-2023, 06:35 AM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: Had something triggered you, causing some anger and your skin to turn green?
As an aside... I have never seen such tiny brake shoe areas... would an RP d type axle have 1" brakes?
No! 1 1/4” shoes came in with the RN.
Cheers
Howard
Excellent. More to do... grrr...
Anyone got an axle set of 1¼" shoes in a serviceable state. I have some nice 1" ones... I'm guessing they are interchangeable? [Insert crying emoji!]
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Howard Wright - 18-06-2023
Hi Nick
I’m not completely sure but I believe that you can use 1” shoes with 1 1/4” drums but not the other way round. Others may correct me.
The Seven Workshop sells 1 1/4” shoes. Great quality but may be a bit more than you wish to pay?
Cheers
Howard
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Nick Lettington - 18-06-2023
(18-06-2023, 05:15 PM)Howard Wright Wrote: Hi Nick
I’m not completely sure but I believe that you can use 1” shoes with 1 1/4” drums but not the other way round. Others may correct me.
The Seven Workshop sells 1 1/4” shoes. Great quality but may be a bit more than you wish to pay?
Cheers
Howard
Well I guess that helps with brake bias! I suppose I'd better pull the front hubs off before I do anything else. I have a spare d type axle here, but with the greater offset shoes. Better brakes on the back is a definite no-no. Don't ask me how I know!
And you are correct Howard. I don't want to invest any more time or cash into this than absolutely necessary. Is it my Scottish ancestry, my Yorkshire birthplace or my seven ownership that makes me so parsimonious?
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Nick Lettington - 18-06-2023
Today I pressed on for an hour and a half... at least I now know I have 1¼" drums... although I still don't know what size the other shoes are. Someone should have told the PO not to assemble the parts with the paint still wet.
The wobbly NS wheel bearing turned out to be another loose nut held firm by folding three sections of tab washer up the flats... no way was that loose little fellow going to get any looser! When I tightened the nut and replaced the drum, some wobble was still there, but this time it wasn't the bearing. I discovered all of the spokes on the flange of the West London wheel are a bit loose... ho hum.
The off side bearing also moves alarmingly. I couldn't undo the nut by hand, but this can't be good?
Surprisingly I couldn't see either thread looking crossed on removal.
I removed a cover from one backlash adjuster and couldn't get it to move. I can only assume that the chump that bolted the axle together did so without backing one side off then couldn't budge them, so I'm hoping the stiffness in the axle will ease when I take out the diff and halfshafts to lap the hub tapers and can make a small adjustment before reassembly. Hoping, but not expecting!
Until tomorrow!
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Dave Mann - 19-06-2023
3 speed RN saloons had 1" wide brake shoes the 1.25" brake shoes were introduced with the D type axle on 4 speed RNs on chassis number 159534.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Andrew Fallon - 19-06-2023
Yesterday I proudly drove my daughter Anna and her partner Joaquim to Amsterdam to be wed. The last time this Seven served as a wedding car was in 1971 when Anne Marie and I got married.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Tony Griffiths - 20-06-2023
Pictures to treasure.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Steve kay - 20-06-2023
What I did today was leave behind all of life's excitements and demands, and return to the workshop. A much inspected and hopefully thoroughly cleaned crankcase, and new larger dia oil pump. Larger dia jet plugs due to various experiences removing old and unimpressive jets, then testing. Much oil circulated, so that's what the jets look like squirting merrily in the crankcase! Pressure reading high, but 18psi is significantly better than 2psi, also revs from drill probably more than off the end of the camshaft. No evidence of cracks anywhere in the crankcase. So now let's put the thing back together and proceed. Is the easy way to slot the gear onto the key in the drive by offering up the pump drive shaft from below?
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Nick Lettington - 20-06-2023
Today I pulled a front hub off the Speedex wannabe and discovered that the brakes are 1¼" which is good. Now to start making a list for Beaulieu. Anyone got an axle set of 1¼" shoes, preferably with a little life left, that would like a set of 1" shoes with life left in exchange? I have not tested the friction material... I could bring folding in necessary!
I am going to blast down for the day in the modern.
RE: What have you done today with your Austin Seven - Dave Mann - 21-06-2023
Lovely photos Andrew, but they do illustrate why Sevens aren't an ideal wedding car although we managed to get Sue and her dress into a friends RP saloon in 1971.