I know that my need to have to ask many, sometimes simple, questions, may have lead you to think that I am no engineer, but the thought of tightening a steering wheel onto a spline really would frighten me! So yes the wheel is splined. Might that be a later insert? Thanks for suggesting that Jamie has lock nuts, he must be the only supplier I did not ask, or try to contact today. If he has some in stock then I will tell other people.
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Car type: '28 GE Cup. '28 AD Chummy '30 RL Saloon. '34 RP Saloon. Too Many toys!
Had a reshuffle in the garage this morning to get the Ulsteroid in a better position to accept it's new engine. All I need now is a willing helper to give me a lift. ( I have one in mind but he isn't available today)
Whether I get the 'old' engine from the Ulster into the RL saloon in time for Moreton in Marsh is debatable. The engine in the RL is running nicely so I will probably stick with it. I was hoping to get it installed ready for testing on the Cumbria Run mid-June but factors are against me.
Then there's the hill-climb car which only needs minor work to be driveable. Getting it into the middle of the garage should result in it getting more attention, rather like chicks in a nest!
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Plan for Saturday was to hopefully take my roller for its first outing on the queens highway for some 55 years (give or take).
Woke up and it was a super day. And there is no point in having an open car if you don't use it. So the Beetle got relegated.
The chummy is really just a 2 seater pickup. No faffing with opening the boot to load tools etc. Just drop it in the back, a thoroughly convenient motor.
18-05-2022, 11:32 AM (This post was last modified: 18-05-2022, 11:32 AM by Ivor Hawkins.)
In the past I have had a puggle around with a coat hanger, flush everything through with a pressure washer, filled the system up with water and Fernox, run around for a week and flushed everything out again and what came out was astonishing!
I’m not sure how nasty Fernox is, but it worked well and didn’t appear to cause any damage.
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I found a similar build up in the engine I took out of the box, an engine father had apart about 7 or 8 years ago. The rear part of that was blocked.
Father had been using neat water latterly as oil was getting into the water. I changed head and fixed that and used glycol.
The build up had a blue tinge like yours, so its antifreeze based. I soon found a void behind it when poking about. So it was local to the ali (which was actually perforated in spots after a clean - despite not leaking in service)
Probably explained why the swine ran warm.
Is it from mixing antifreeze manufacturers products? or is it a reaction with the ali?
