What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[David Stepney]

Hedd,

TH4219 is looking good. I'm very glad it is such good hands. You appeared also pose a question, but only made a statement about the pedals. If the question concerned pedals, after the thick end of 50 years, I cannot remember having difficulty with the pedals unscrewing themselves. i certainly don't remember the conical nuts being brazed to the pads. Its not a solution I would adopt.

On FG, the clutch pedal had a habit of unscrewing itself after I had the engine out to fit a new rear main and reline the clutch. The clutch pad was a swine to get off, and I had used a stilson wrench on it to get it unscrewed. I quickly found out why it had been done up so tightly, so I have cured the problem by tightening it up with a (smaller) stilson wrench. Fortunately, if the conical nut is in contact with the pad, tightening the pad will drag the nut round with it (assuming the threads are OK.)

And, yes, I personally use pedal rubbers on my car as i prefer the feel of them. A rubber on the throttle also seems to make 'heel and toe' changes (I have the earlier crash box) easier.

Have I answered the question you had in mind?

David.