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Feb 19, 2023 21:52:29 GMT
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A some years ago I bought a blasting cabinet, IIRC it was £230 ish. The first thing was to sort out some dust extraction, with a second hand Henry hoover, a £20 cyclone from eBay and bits I had laying about. This was pretty good, and I blasted a lot of stuff with it, along the way I binned the glass and plastic viewing window and replaces it with 6mm think toughened glass and made the viewing window frame more easily removable, by fitting the bolts from the inside grinding out some of the frame to fit and using penny washers and acorn nuts. Unfortunately I didn't use the disposable glass protectors and the glass has been etched, It's still usable, but it will need changing. Glass protectors are eye wateringly expensive for what they are, 10x 1ftx2ft glass protectors are £50, if anyone has a cheaper solution I'm all ears. The only issue I've had with it has been intermittently poor media flow, now it's time to resurrect the beast and hopefully improve it.
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Feb 19, 2023 19:01:50 GMT
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I acquired these in the boot of a car I bought years ago, sat in a corner taking up room, they probably need rebuilding. Collection is from Hull, it's far away from most places.
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Feb 19, 2023 18:57:36 GMT
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I'm having a clear out, anything that doesn't sell will be going on eBay as an Autojumble job lot. I believe all items are working. Collection is from Hull, it's faraway from most places, so I'm happy to post. Box 1 Ford stuff 2 Bags of assorted relays and a box of bits £50 Box 2 Radios faceplates and cages £50 Box 3 and 4 French stuff £40 Box 5 Sony and Kenwood Head units and a Kenwood Disc changer £100 Box 6 German stuff £50 Box 7 Mostly ariels £30 Box 8 Japanese Stuff £30 Box 9 Vauxhall stuff £20
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Feb 19, 2023 18:06:02 GMT
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The shed got painted sage green, and a temporary roof to see it over winter. and winter is nearly over, so it's new roof o'clock, well it would have been if the boiler hadn't of played up, and If the wind hadn't been blowing quite so hard, so that will have to wait for next weekend. Craig said he was coming over to help, after he had been out for a run, brunch seemed like the best place to start and form a plan. Instead of shed roof, having a clear out and sort out of my old workshop (which became another dumping ground while my back was bad), where the Bond is currently seemed like a good use of our time, It went from hardly being able to move to this. Now I have a pile of stuff to get rid of, see the selling pages. I can also get to the blasting cabinet, I think ill start a separate thread for that. Dan
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Feb 16, 2023 21:44:34 GMT
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I'm looking for a pair of Triumph Vitesse front springs for a dry build on my bond. Dan
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If I was building a 4 pot yes perfect, but I'm planning on a straight 6. Thanks anyway Fast Road, Lowered Low fitted height - road spring, spring rate of 330 lb/in, fitted length of 6.875", part number TT4302 www.british-car-parts.de/Downloads/Spitfire.pdf page 36
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Feb 14, 2023 20:56:08 GMT
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thinking out loud (please feel free to pick holes or discuss anything)
At the moment the scrap bond shell is still on the chassis, letting me do a dry build of the suspension to see if any body mods are needed, this will also let me work out the fitment of the spit tank and fuel filler arrangement.
let's talk about weight, Bond GT4s curb weight of 737kg Spitfire 1500 curb weight of 815kg so the swing spring should be close enough, I could use some of the air assist shocks from a corvette I read about in, Paul Geithner spitfire performance enhancements page if it needs stiffening or buy a GT6 swing spring. The straight 6 will also need to be fitted, as that's a heavy thing.
Rear Suspension
I have most of the parts to rebuild the spit 1500 swing spring ordered, inc some polyurethane thrust buttons
Now I know the half shafts are OK it was the bearing position that caused the rubbing, I'll try to put it back together in the right place, and rebuild the other set of short half shafts with new bearings (what are the current supply of bearings like?) and UJs, later as the current diff has small flanges but the 3.63 that's planned to go in it has large flanges {stop sniggering at the back}
Front suspension
I currently only have spit 1500 or herald front springs, probably too soft for the straight 6, so vitesse or GT6 springs? Has anyone got a spare set they don't need?
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Feb 13, 2023 21:01:41 GMT
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Bolts acquired, Sam's genius plan executed. Have to say it works a treat. It looks like the bearing was pushed too far on to the shaft. Causing the upright to be off set.
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Feb 12, 2023 19:00:37 GMT
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Monday night was Club Triumph Hull area meeting, Great night (first Monday of the month, from 6.30 at sandpiper pub in melton just off the A63, all RR's welcome) Sam who lives in Halifax, came over to pick up the dolly glass I had picked up for him a few months ago, he also has some spare drive shafts, both a long and a short set, long drive shafts are not the easiest thing to find, so I grabbed them and passed on the short set seeing as I should have a spare pair in storage as well as the ones I took off the bond. Saturday was to say the least a disappointment, the plan was to strip the original hubs off the half shafts and swap them for the upgraded M12 stud hubs, I gave them a quick jet wash, coz it was minging Bolted on the hub extractor and tightened it up, this one didn't make the satisfying crack the last one did, instead stripped threads on all 4 3/8s wheel nuts, resulting in this Seeing as I intend to drive this car, I think this proved my point, and the spare pair of half shafts have disappeared. I was not a happy bunny, luckily I had a service on my mate's van and fault-finding the non locking tailgate and the destroyed AUX belt to distract me. In the evening I had a family party to go to in Keithley, just down the road from Halifax where the pair of short drive shafts I had cleverly said passed on were, but Sam was in Scotland looking at a house, he was back in time for me to pick them up on the way home. Sam also passed on a useful tip for getting the half shafts out of the rear uprights, take a front hub, unbolt the brake disc bolt the hub to the upright and use the hub puller to push it out, GENIUS. Sunday morning I headed out with some hope in my heart, went to pull the now M12 studded hub off and found some Acclaim wheel nuts, but they are an enclosed nut but not for long, once attacked with the angry grinder and the untapped bit at the bottom duly tapped to M12, the hub practically fell off, the brake backplate didn't put up much of a fight, anyone would have thought these parts had been reconditioned less than 10 years ago and dry stored. A pair of front hubs were stripped and converted to M12 which was so easy, unbolt the disc pop it on the swing press and the stud was out, refitting was just as easy just using a punch to seat the stud, less than an hour's work including removing the hub. next was enacting Sam's genus idea for removing the half shaft, except I don't have any 5/16 UNF 3"1/2 long bolts, FAIL Instead, I converted the swing axel to swing spring, couldn't find a few bits I thought I had for it, top pad, through tube and bolt, but no matter they are easy enough to get. Then I pulled out one of the short shaft and held it against the one that wasn't right, and..... I wasn't, from the centre of the UJ to the cup on the good shaft was 13"1/2, the not right one was 13"3/4 to the cup and over all the shaft appeared to be a few mm longer. Oh and I ordered the footwell pan and body mount for the body shell.
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If you are fitting bigger rubber on the front it would be level? I didnt want to have the tyers fouling on the chassis on full lock, so was planning on keeping the low profiles at the front.
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Today I visited, waterside tiers on bankside in Hull, top chap got talking about his grass tracking career and the 2 HUGE shelves of trophies, half of which were his brothers for stock car racing.
I picked up a pair of part worn, Good Year Efficient grip 195/60/15 for £20 each fitted and balanced, not that they look part worn the centre ridge is still present. 195/60/15s are a 15mm ride hight gain and 5% speedo error.
Saturday I hope to rebuild the rear drive shafts, and then we will get to see how they fit.
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By lowering the rear I was wanting to avoid putting rake in to the body. Dan Thinking about it 25mm over the length of the car wouldn't be that noticeable. Dan
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I think a 'slight' increase in rubber height would look better, but not lowering the car after. As above, radiusing the arch to match the rim/tyre radius 'probably' would look good. Maybe one of the clever photoshop guys can do a quick mock up to see? By lowering the rear I was wanting to avoid putting rake in to the body. Dan
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Think I can see where you're coming from Dan but don't think fitting larger tyres is the solution.. Comparing this pic to the first with the 13" spitfire wheel's and the one on page 10 with the 15" Minilites, there's a distinct difference of amount of tyre visible between rim and arch.. Here it look's like the suspension has collapsed, fitting a larger tyre whilst inreasing the height at the bottom, it would only protrude further into the inner wheel arch at the top and keep the rim/arch view the same.. Fitting lowering block's could make it look even worse and run the risk of fouling the inner arch.. Maybe now's the time to start reprofiling the arches to get the look you'r after as per page 10.. I'm sorry to criticise other peoples idea's and work it's one thing I hate to do, just trying to be helpful and possibly save you some wasted time and money.. Good luck Pete The pic on p10 unfortunately is a very good photo shop and I guess was done to look right rather than to scale. I was intending to reprofile the wheel arch and possibly have to re tub the inner arch. Your not criticising, your adding your views and opinions to the debate, something I personally enjoy and learn from. Dan
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The more I look at this pic, the more I think it needs a bigger tyre 195/65/15s seem to be a really popular size, that would give me a 25mm ride height increase, then I could use a 1" lowering block along with the swing spring and long drive shafts to correct the camber.
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Wait, no longer horrido. This is a 155/80/13 spitfire rim The wheels I have are 185/55/15 and 205/50/15, which are very close to the same rolling radius as standard tyers, the 185s are MOTable but the 205s are toast, which is fine as this car is a long way off an MOT (not that it needs one). The passenger side was easier to get to, everything was going fine till I tried to undo the half shaft to diff bolts, they were sized, but they proved no match for the angle grinder. Refitting for once was easier than the strip down, the replacement hub, upright, half shaft and radius arm all bolted in with little fuss or bother, I fitted the 205, but will it foul the body work Surprisingly enough no. I like that, can't wait to do the fronts, (and put a bonnet on) So I cracked on with the other side, which was pretty much the same as the other side except the one of the bolts had sized in the diff flange and really didn't want to come out, but when I fitted the wheel the tyre fouled on the radius arm, so I rotated the radius arm, still fouls, change the wheel for one of the 185s not fouling the tyre now is just scraping the rim and stops dead on the balancing weight. Bottom biscuits. As a temp measure, I pulled the weight off and rolled it back in to the garage. The po had even coated the shocks with a layer of fibre glass I also unearthed this hidden under a bulge in the filler Dan
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Another small step forward today. Anyone who works on small chassis Triumphs should know getting the rear hubs off is a pain in the backside, normal pullers just bend the flanges, a special puller is required, I've never seen one for sale second hand for sensible money. They retail for £100-200, (if anyone has one they don't need, please feel free to PM me) Luckily I'm in Club Triumph and just happen to know a man who has one, and even better he was happy to lend it to me. I rembered to ask him for any tips, to which he said tighten it up and hit it, hard. Well I tried that and failed, twice. So I called on reinforcements, and visited Mr Makita's 3/4" 110V Impact gun, whom just so happened to be visiting my mates house Which totally failed to shift it. Then we invite Mr Scafpole to join in the fun. He was a little more persuasive. Along to the press so these could be replaced by these It beggars belief, that these Land Rover Freelander mk1 studs, fit so perfectly the splines align and the drums fit back on with no modification Next step, removing the original axels and fitting these, so I can finally fit the MGF wheels. Dan
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I was over to my mate's place today making use of his facilities, and he showed me the Stag cylinder heads he had just got back from vapour blasting, they look amazing, Amazingly corroded, that is. They are deeeeeep, apart from JB weld, the only thing we can think of is TIG welding to backfill the holes and skimming. Dose the RR brain trust have any other suggestions?
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Jan 19, 2023 16:23:56 GMT
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I'm still waiting for the return postage slip to come through, but the replacement ones arrived 27mm seat Vs 24mm (measured with a tape so allow a little for carp measuring technique)
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Jan 16, 2023 17:56:42 GMT
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That looks really good Pete. The wheel studs arrived last week, but the nuts turned up today, looking at them I thought they look a bit small. Yep their a bit small, eBay return started. Dan
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