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Is the Beergas bottle just a pub CO2 one? I'd be googling something like this, or contacting these people to see if they can do anything with your bottle or provide you with something else suitable. I assume you will have a normal CO2 regulator- I think you can get adaptors for argon bottles, or argon regulators themselves aren't that expensive.

I don't disagree with that at all. I just think if I was going to write a petition for it, I'd make the main issue that of safety (which I genuinely believe is the main issue) rather than cost or the possibility of losing out on trading something that is owned by Doovla anyway; owning a classic car is, for nearly all, a non-essential hobby, and with many of the cars this relates to being worth tens of thousands of pounds (and more!), a few quid on the car insurance premium or on an event's public liability insurance shouldn't really be that much of a concern.

I expect I am in a minority in having a car that this effects that's worth less than a couple grand and used on a regular basis so perhaps my views aren't quite as well heard

This pic appeared on Facebook after the Area 52 play weekend. I thought I'd share it. Credit goes to Diabolu



This is the gloriously blue relay used to replace the awful old Lucas one. I broke the bracket It'll get mounted properly when I do the fusebox



I've had a look at them flashing and I don't think I'm too worried about them staying white now that they're separated out from the sidelights



And is my warning light working now?

Yes


No



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No





Something that came up in conversation at the weekend was the retro-tat steering wheel cover. Bruce seemed to strangely like it but I thought it was 'orrible, especially having driven with it on.




I knew the condition of the wheel was poor but since it's inkeeping with the patina of the rest of the car, I'm happy with that



Nasty splits in the plastic (bakelite?)



I gave it all a wipe over with white spirit to get any grime off but found it to be surprisingly clean

Some fuel hose arrived today so I'll relocate the filter when I next get a chance..

It's not the being blocked in that is an annoyance (as Dan says, there are ways of getting things moved in a worse case scenario), it's the complete lack of courtesy, common sense or consideration for anyone else that gets me..


I can think of worse things to use than a pair of E30s as ornaments ;D

I'm very intrigued by the sound of this Guisness. The espresso coffee element sounds interesting and I'd love to try a stout soon.

I put on 3 gallons or so of cider last night- quick and dirty, about 60% cheap juice, 40% premium cloudy juice and I added some very strong tea and 300g of sugar for tannin and a tiny alcohol boost.

I also got given a 1 gallon red wine kit at christmas so I thought I may as well put it on while I was sterilising stuff. No idea how it'll turn out though.

I have nothing to show for it and totally neglected to get pics of anything, but quite a bit of time has been put into this car this weekend.

The 10 took its maiden voyage to Area 52 after work on Friday. I never realised the a37 from Yeovil to Bristol was entirely comprised of hills, despite having driven it many times..

The drive there was largely uneventful other than stopping at a Petrol station that I spotted had a load of NOS Lucas bits on the shelves. I'll be going there to stock up soon.

Arriving at Area52 on Friday evening, I cracked open a cider and set to work on the easiest bit- I now have a modern flasher relay that flashes reliably and makes my warning light work as it should.

From there, the headlamps were removed, the sidelights rewired (2 or 3 times over the course of Friday and Saturday ) and new H4 headlamps fitted after a bit of trimming and fettling. The problem here, other than me managing to catch wire in the engine fan.. was that every time some of the 60 year old wiring was disturbed, something else would stop working and need to be chased. Indeed, my oil pressure light appears to only work occasionally now following disturbance of the wiring so I will have to have a look at that ASAP

The headlamp switch inexplicably failed and Jrevillug jumped straight in, stripped it down and rebuilt it for me. It was the original from 1955 so it's done well and is working perfectly again now.

There's a bit of a running joke that Jrevillug, despite being in his early 20s, is actually from the 1950s ;D With this in mind, I handed him the cranking handle to see if he could use it to start the car.. He managed it too! I had a go and failed miserably, opting to make sure I either have a charged battery or am parked on a slope Unfortunately, our attempts also led to the bottom of the radiator being hit quite hard and the brass splitting.

The rad was taken out, flushed for good measure and given a temporary/permanent repair of some chemical metal type stuff. It appears to be fine but I'll keep an eye on it.

James also had a poke around to see if he could see where my electricity was falling out. Turns out it was the 'sense' wire of the alternator that I had connected to the battery losing a couple hundred milliamps. Connecting this to an ignition live had it fixed and my losses are around 1 microamp. I can live with one millionth of an amp!

VIP pony expressed a differential down from Seth for me and that will be fitted once I'm confident that the engine is all running how it should. It's a 4.1 (or 4.11? from an early Herald).

James actually helped with loads of other bits too; he jumped in and got stuff sorted before I even knew what was going on! It would have taken me weeks and months to get this stuff done on my own so I'm really grateful to him and everyone that helped at A52 over the weekend.

My drive home was a bit harder work. I decided I'd sit in the slow lane of the M5 because I fancied an easy drive. I suffered really bad fuel vaporisation though and had to stop for half an hour or so on the hard shoulder everything to cool down and my fuel to recondense. I'm going to relocate the fuel filter and see if that's enough to sort it, and if not will reroute the fuel line a bit to keep the temps down.

I like that you weren't allowed to take the cover off for fear of wetness when it's that rotten ;D


Fantastic find, Paul. If 'er indoors will not allow it then perhaps she isn't the one for you

So you need a pair of slotmags in 4x4" for the rear and a pair in 4x3.75" (Triumph Herald/spitfire) fitment for the front. You're unlikely to get stuff that fits both, but may be able to get one pair redrilled if you buy a set of four of either fitment.

I've just checked and I appear to have lost about 0.3 volts over the course of 24 hours of non-use. I wouldn't even have noticed if this was a daily but since it could easily sit for 2 weeks at a time it's something I will need to get to the bottom of








Or disconnect the battery in anticipation of layups of more than a couple days