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Put Christmas back in the loft today, and decided to get some mundane tasks done. Needed a new 2D bulb for the porch and some bulbs for the living room. Take the Westy to Toolstation seemed the obvious answer. Off with it's wrappers, started it up and off we go, it's only a quick 15 minute run, and the weather was just nice enough to enjoy the roof off without feeling too cold. By the time I leave Toolstation, the sky had turned grey and the first spots of rain were landing on the interior ! That's it, long way home it is, if I'm gonna get wet, I might as well get wet having fun. Couple of pleasant hours past, people pointing and laughing ( not sure if at car or me getting wet ) saw a few bikers on vintage machinery, waved and got some nods back, nice to see there are other idiots about ! Got home, unpacked my stuff and threw the roof and cover back on, just in time for the sky to turn blue gain ! Fitted my bulbs at home, then uncovered the Westy again. I have a half hood, and am about to fit a boot tonneau, and want a neat solution to all the poppers and don't really want to use gypsy double studs as I find the don't hold well. So moved the poppers for the side hood loops onto the roll bar, they actually work better here too, and don't pop off as easy when tensioning the hood. Still awaiting a reply form SBFS about boot tonneau, so not fitted that as of yet. I'm thinking of adding a 2nd set of 4 poppers to the rear tub just below the stock ones, so the half hood can be deployed with the boot tonneau on without disturbing it. If the weather is nice tomorrow, I'll do first run of 2018 and look into that I reckon. I've really enjoyed the end of 2017, and getting a Westy is one of the main reasons, I've had faster, comfier, quieter cars, but none with quite the sense of occasion that the Westy provides, and none of them that were quite so scary at speeds that you have a chance of retaining your license doing. Roll on 2018

Yeah thanks for that at Blyton the other year

Different species, but we acquired Marvin just before Christmas, he was a stray who adopted my daughter at uni. She bombarded us with photos saying she couldn't leave him all alone. He's now been "snipped and chipped" and is now allowing us to live in his house.

Have a great day

I hang mine from the garage roof using the hinge pins! Well out of harms way..

You were, and always are, more than welcome buddy! Not the first and won't be the last

I am not sure that Craig does running judging by the photos of him

Belated Birthday Best Wishes!

The old Morgan three wheelers used to lap quite impressively at Oulton Park, when I watched them in support races at different events. But as you say, they were two wheels at the front, one at the back style. They were also quite compact, and compared to the current Morgan, I believe, very light. HOWEVER, would you want to be on a track day with tin tops in something like that, makes even a Westfield look a paragon of safety!

I imagine a reverse trike might handle better than a normal trike. But not my idea of fun. As an ex biker I always figured trikes had all the disadvantages of bikes mixed with all the disadvantages of cars!

Blimey - no wonder I felt cr@p! I didn't realise until recently that the trouble in the Caribbean back in the day was started by the scramble to commandeer a tropical paradise, cut down the forest and grow sugar cane.

Happy Birthday Craig.

Have a great day @CraigHew

Didn’t ‘operation yewtree’ Lock up all the Bent Feelers I now recall I did mine with the engine on a stand with no manifolds so didn’t have this issue

As well as looking great, JKs are unbelievably comfortable seats. On our Alps trip I did a few 10-12 hr days sat in them no problem.

A lot depends on how many runs you get. With the bike engined car it has a two gallon tank. I'd fill it for the start of the event and depending on the track that would usually do me for the two practice runs and sometime 1st timed run too. I usually carry a.20ltr can to an event which is usually plenty.

MHR hope you had a good day!

As mentioned you can apply some light upwards pressure from a jack or similar, but easiest way is to put a number of washers under the nut so you can nip the nut up, without the nylon (nyloc) insert biting on the thread, to make the taper lock. You'll find it won't take much torque on the nut to make the taper grip. Then remove nut and washers and tighten up with just the nyloc nut. Or without washers, just use a plain nut first to pull the taper in before replacing the plain nut with the nyloc.

Happy birthday bud, another year older and wiser

Its once again been far too long since I gave a progress update on this build thread. My summer was largely spent block paving the driveway at my girlfriends house and now I'm mid-way to refitting her kitchen but theres still been a little progress on the JW4. First up was the fuel tank. The JW4 ran two fuel tanks, the main tank was in the nose ahead of the drivers feet and the second smaller lift tank was fitted in the engine bay. The fuel pump was mechanically driven by a cam off the rear axle and would pump the fuel from the nose tank to the engine bay tank only when the car was in motion. The fuel would then be gravity fed from the smaller tank to the carb. As my intention is to only use the car for sprints the smaller tank should be enough for that purpose and i will be fitting a crash box in the place of the main tank. Way back in April before Stoneleigh I'd sketched out some ideas for the tank to try and mirror the design for engine bay tank originally fitted and made plans to see the fabricator once I returned home from the show. Plans however changed over the Stoneleigh weekend when by chance I found a small air reservoir tank on one of the auto-jumble stands that would almost be perfect. It had a few holes that needed plugging and was obviously missing a fuel filler but it had enough potential to be useable for the build. After I got home it was dropped off with Martin at .mjs Fabrication and he set about transforming it into a fuel tank for me. The before and after results. The other major progress albeit not with the car is that I've now had all the drawings scanned for the JW4 and Johnny Walker's other projects. In the end it amounted to some 250 drawings covering the various cars, prototypes and Karts that emerged from his factory between 1965 and 1968. Having everything in an electronic format will make things easier for me when sending drawings to have parts made and also searching for drawings as they're currently stored in about 20 tubes.