What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[RupertW]

Now that the Chummy is roadgoing I'm finding plenty of jobs that need sorting.

First up today was the atrocious brakes. Fortunately this was easily identified as the rear brake levers being the wrong way up which was quickly put right, and along with some cleaning and greasing they're more what I'd expect.

Second job while I was around the rear axle was an oil change. Unfortunately among the sludgy oil was this: 
   

The crown wheel isn't obviously missing any chunks as far as I could see so presumbly the pinion is the culprit. I hadn't really factored in an axle rebuild so this definitely isn't ideal. The axle is a bit of an unknown so I don't know how recently any damage would have happened or what the underlying cause is. I'm assuming with chunks of metal that big in the oil it's fairly terminal and total failure is a case of when rather than if!