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Location: Bala North Wales
Car type: 1933 RP Standard Saloon
Thank you Peter and Malcolm for your suggestion. I will, of course check. However, you will see in my original post that this noise is a distinct light tapping noise that occurs between drive and overrun, exactly when one would expect a big or little end rattle to occur.
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Location: Scottish Borders
Between drive and overrun is when problems in transmission such as prop shaft occur.
Jim
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Location: Cheshire
Car type: Race Ulster, 1926 Special, 1927 Chummy, 1930 Box
If it is the gearbox -4speed?? My guess would be excess endfloat in the layshaft bearings.
Alan Fairless
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Location: Bala North Wales
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Yes, Alan it is. It's the crash type 4 speed box.
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Location: Port Elizabeth, Sunny South Africa
Car type: '26 Chummy, '28 Top Hat, '33 Type "65", single seaters
Check the oil level in the box before doing anything else.
Aye
Greig