1971 Triumph Herald 1200(ish) 09/4/23 - Roof & dash

I've been away, looked at other threads, posted some comments and now I'm back. I STILL LOVE IT.
You know what would look really good on it? The all-red rear lenses I've got in my garage...but you can't have them!

fantastic car

Hey rmad, don't suppose you've got a pair of Bond bucket seats stashed away have you. They're definately on my wish list!
Thanks for the kind words y'all
Your Vitesse wagon looked ace too Was it a genuine one? We had a 1200 estate for a couple of years but it had to go to pay for the Sun-tor. I was planning on tuning it uising all period parts and had collected carbs, exhaust, cam etc but it never happened.

Yeah, I knew about the factory conversions which is why I asked. They were done at the main London distributor at Acton I think. The Bonds had Leston steering wheels but I'm not sure where the seats came from. They're proper old buckets though and would look ace in the saloon.
There's only a handful of wagons in the states. Is yours the one Cliff Watts has?

Lovely! That's what I like to see! Excellent little motor.

If you ever need a mint 1300 engine & all ancilleries, runs like a beaut, single carb, there's one on my floor I have no use for anymore

The paint is actually a blue but I remember the Triumph 2000 that we had when I was about 6 that was this colour. We all thought it was green except my dad. It'll stay until I find the time and money to do a couple of body mods, prep it and blag somewhere to hae a go painting it.
Lewis, we've got a spare 1500 we took out of a Dolly we had a as a winter run around a couple of years ago as a spare but don't chuck your's out before telling me! What's it out of?

Sweet love these motors

Little update on this too.

Been playing with the lathe I bought for work reasons a month or so ago. Made up nice new steering wheel centre to replace the ill fitting Dolomite one I butchered to fit when I put the wheel on.

So, about three weeks ago Katie went to Canley Classics up north of Coventry after work to pick up the recon driveshaft assy (and drop of an old knachkered exchange one) the Herald has been desperately in need of. But the hot weather and needing to use the car put paid to immediate fitting. Finally on Tuesday this week I was able to get out there and do it and while I was at it fit the spring spacer block from Jigsaw Racing too.....

Here's old shaft removed and stripped with the vertical link and other bits bolted on to the new assembly.



The old one had a worn yoke meaning that the U/J cup spins wearing it even more. There was noticable play and the only solution is to use a good or new shaft.

But the shaft replacement was the boring necessary bit. The fun modification bit was fitting the spacer block This is looking sideways across the car at the diff. The spring is bolted to the top of the diff and acts as the "top wishbone" (The driveshaft is the bottom wishbone as its a swing axle design.)



The aluminium block is designed to fit between spring and diff, moving the spring up and altering the relationship between spring and driveshaft giving some neg camber and mcuh less likelyhood of the dreaded wheel tuck-in.



Here's the block sat on top of the diff (looking from the other side). It was actually a good tight fit



And now with spring replaced on top.



This is the view from inside the boot and the retaining bolts are just clear of the small cover that covers the hole !




Then I just had to fit the new shaft, bleed the brakes..... Got it all done and took it for a test drive and there's a definite improvement in the handling, especially on the limit. Lifting off mid corner (or roundabout ) just results in a nice tightening of line with a bit of oversteer instead of lots of steering wheel action.

The car ought to be 1" lower too but I can't see much difference. Haven't taken a comparison photo yet. There is visibly more neg camber though.