1956 Red Goddess - No socks for this birthday!

Is there a minimum size requirement for them?

If not then some clear 10mm(amber when lit) LED's would work but would be invisible when not in use.

Or on the same basis ... Roxanne

The Chevy ones- eBay. All the rest? Any car parts store here. Napa, AutoZone etc.

Phil

They are supposed to bear the correct approval markings (EU, SAE or JDM) , or be oem parts, not sure this would ever be pulled on an MOT though.

The Weekender is dead to me

The Goddess is ready but SWMBO's foot not good enough to go and as the Beach Boys would have it "It wouldn't be right. To leave your best girl home on a Saturday night" plus #1 Son also has health issues that mean I can't be more than an hour from home and Goodwood is 3 hours away in a 1950's truck.

Pitstop will be there in the Raid Dolly representing Team Frankenhealey.

Bumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbumbum!

Hope you have an ok weekend and everyone else gets well soon

bu99er

With SWMBO's foot healing well, fractures knitted but soft tissue trauma will take another 4-6 months according to the consultant, I decided it was time to stretch the Goddess' legs.

First order of business a wash and brush up. This means I need a 60 metre extension lead and a 60 metre hosereel just the get the jetwash in the same vicinity as the truck. The leccy supply comes in handy for the 3hp compressor needed to check the tyre pressures and boost the rear bags.



That took most of Saturday afternoon then it was check the fluids and grease the linkages

Three bottles should do on past experience



BUT.... the proper tracta joint oil seals have cut leakage to virtually nothing and just half a bottle on a prophylactic topup of front and rear axles. I've got a nice set of unused leather seals if anyone wants them?

While under the beast a quick visual check to make sure none of the systems have dropped off or been stolen



A spruce up of the cab followed. I even washed off the 'lucky' sparrow curse word off the engine cover from the days that birds nested in the loosely connected spars of rotten ash that was once the cab.



Pulling the drivers door closed for the evening the 63 year old leather on the pullstrap gave up the ghost. I can find someone to recover it or might be able to locate some NOS stock.



Sunday morning dawned and Rob turned up to be banksman for the day and help with the loading/unloading

Doing the tilt trick. Yay, the hydraulics till work!



Connect up the Healey for the big pull and the winch still works. Another YAY!



Safely aboard. Just twenty minutes of swearing at ratchet straps.



Put in 30 quid's worth of diesel and then just a cool, calm and collected 12 mile drive to a park for the opportunity to eat hotdogs, sit in the sun, talk to people about their cars and be considered for vehicle of the show.



Did we win? Nope, the judge was some local meedja type who I probably upset by answering his inane questions in a similar vein. The winner was a worthy self-restored Jaaaagggg Mk 2 in the end. 5 hours later and the ennui was setting in so we left in the busy Sunday holiday traffic. Getting on to roundabouts was interesting, waiting for a gap became 'I'm coming out because I'm bigger than you'. We took a slightly different route back which took us through a dual-carriageway underpass. This underpass is so big that there is a skate park on one side and the little tykes that inhabit it obviously wanted to practice their hand gestures at two old farts driving a big old lorry so I let them share the joy of the firetruck horn in the very large reverberating space. I couldn't see as as usual I am sawing at the wheel trying to keep on the road at 40mph but Rob swears that jaws dropped, palms were rammed over ears and the ugliest one sh@t himself. It's wishful thinking I know but leave us to our fantasies

There's a steel strap inside that provides the strength. I can get it recovered but it would need to be both to match up.