What the postie brought today!

[Flying Carrot Steve]

Yep you really should always use spigot rings if the wheel centre bore and hub are different sizes! Dangerous not to as Naranja_Al says. 

[p k]

4 hours ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

Yep you really should always use spigot rings if the wheel centre bore and hub are different sizes! Dangerous not to as Naranja_Al says. 

This is only true for hub-centric wheel fittings, lots of cars were designed  for stud-centric wheels , MG Midget hubs as used on westfield 11s are stud centric where the wheel is located by the taper on the wheel nut . 

[Naranja_Al]

Correct. Sorry I should of made this clear.

[Two7]

Ah that makes sense as the ford wheels have tapered holes and cone nuts, I assume a bit belt and braces having spigot ring and tapper cone

[Flying Carrot Steve]

On 03/12/2023 at 09:32, Two7 said:

Ah that makes sense as the ford wheels have tapered holes and cone nuts, I assume a bit belt and braces having spigot ring and tapper cone

I'm pretty sure I have had wheels on a kit with tapered nuts AND a spigot ring. I'll have to check as now I'm doubting myself 😂

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

28 minutes ago, Flying Carrot Steve said:

I'm pretty sure I have had wheels on a kit with tapered nuts AND a spigot ring. I'll have to check as now I'm doubting myself 😂

 

Quite possibly, some do some don't, as long as you have at least one of the two methods, that's OK, nothing wrong with having both, either, what ever you feel comfortable with.

 

FWIW; I've never had anything but the tapered wheel nuts on any of mine, including when I've had factory supplied wheels for the car, and never had an issue as a result.

[Two7]

5 minutes ago, Two7 said:

My omex itb kit arrived today.  Pre assembled and looking very smart. It has the o ring gaskets for the manifold and topright throttle linkage.  As it comes from omex it has the all important tps sensor adaptor cable, so plug and play with omex loom.  Now I need to get the garage reorganised so I can do the open heart surgery on the engine and possibly the bonnet fenestration.   Will keep you all posted. 

 

[Two7]

I will update my build diary with my experience of the installation 

[evosteve]

Very nice, I will watch with interest.

[Euan Hoosearmy]

New pedal box cover from Carbon NV. Needs trimming to size, so a good excuse to go and buy some cutting tools and an air die-grinder. 

 

Original cover was riveted and glued down so got a "bit" bent when I removed it to make changing the master cylinder a bit easier. Wiring loom went through a hole in it too! Certainly wasn't installed with any thought of future removal.

 

[Ansoeb]

5 hours ago, Euan Hoosearmy said:

New pedal box cover from Carbon NV. Needs trimming to size, so a good excuse to go and buy some cutting tools and an air die-grinder. 

 

Original cover was riveted and glued down so got a "bit" bent when I removed it to make changing the master cylinder a bit easier. Wiring loom went through a hole in it too! Certainly wasn't installed with any thought of future removal.

 

I just installed some stuff from them as well. A bandsaw cuts it very well. Frog tape on surface for drilling holes too

[Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset]

Not today, but a birthday pressie from Mum & Dad. To be fitted over the holidays hopefully.

 

Lets hope it doesn’t leak 🤪

 

 

 

[aeg]

Off down the garage to make the car moveable again 🤔 well !!! sort of ………. then we can put the engine and gearbox back in 🤣

[Andrzej]

Today and in last few days postie brought the tools I should have bought years ago. Maybe my wrists would be not so painfull today (air rivet tool! )  and every trackday I would not so worry re fuel leak (this really can reduce fun of trackday if someone like me thinks what can go wrong maybe fuel leak and fire... Maybe because I was witness of few car fire on track , and me experiencing fuel or coolant leak both from worm type and bolt type clamps  . 

 

 Hope those Oetiker with some Gates barricade hoses will do the job once forever. 

[Andrzej]

Thanks to @Naranja_Al got today pair of doors, so my "weather kit" is now complete . Hope no need to use it too often 90% of joy of open car seems to be gone with that. But supouse it better than to drive beeing soaked. 

Need to figure out where to attach door strap, how its soupoused to be attached ? (I got rid of those aluminium vinyl covered inside side panels, propably originaly there is a place for button-clip?)