My part of the world (formerly) south Oxon, its beech woods and Chiltern Hills. Stoke Row is famous for an amazing looking cast iron well donated by a Maharajah for some reason and a pub, the Crooked Billet that has no bar - drinks just served from the kitchen door. The Crooked Billet is a posh eatery now so not really a pub any more. BTW car looks great, good that the gear thing was trivial.
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Seems I have a plethora of U/J's with splined sockets and a dearth of rod's with splines on ...No Bother Paul , always happy to have comments on here , especially questions , they can slide off the steering wheel end , or rather the shaft can slide downwards
probably off to Car Builder solutions as mine are 19mm and not probably not a size found on most cars now days ?
Can't find any 19mm 48 spline stuff on the site just 15mm 36 spline Escort stuff ?
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oh, ok. i wasn't sure on shaft size so thought i'd mention it.
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Indeedy , the maharajah of benares , i lived in stoke row for 20 odd years , nice woods ,,,pushed my bsa bantam around them for miles lol. played pool in the crooked billet a lot too .
little bit done on the gearshift gizmo ..
here is the plastic bush that died ..
and i decided to make one out of metal .
found an old hunk of steel ,machined it , and thin disc-ed off the bit i needed ..
found an old exhaust flange for the plate ..
slotted plate , and started slotting the bush..
once slotted i will weld the plate to the bush ,and machine and fit and see how it shifts .
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robert
Small world! You'd know the Black Horse at Checkenden and the Rising Sun at Witheridge Hill too I guess.
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yes , when the bikers were kicked out of the highwayman we all went to the 4 horseshoes , and sometimes those ones as well .
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well , new gear shift bush made from steel instead of plastic , and fitted .
boy oh boy what a difference , side play reduced to zero , up and down play down to a few mm , i was not expecting such a total change , it feels like a short shift .
very happy with it .
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robert
boy oh boy what a difference , side play reduced to zero , up and down play down to a few mm , i was not expecting such a total change , it feels like a short shift .
very happy with it .
regards
robert
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Good work with the new bush Robert :tup:
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Thanks Phil , it really is nice and firm
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Well , tuesday was MOT day .
Luckily it was not pouring down with a CAPITAL P, and all was well , found a slight brake light infraction , which turned out ,after i had just about dissemboweled the dash , to be a beak in the wire under the heat shrink next to a soldered joint down by the switch , so i crimped it .this took a long time to find .
good news was the emissions were pretty good ...
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and to celebrate another year of mot'ness , i popped on my new name plates ..
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noicy noice noice ... i like em !
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robert
Luckily it was not pouring down with a CAPITAL P, and all was well , found a slight brake light infraction , which turned out ,after i had just about dissemboweled the dash , to be a beak in the wire under the heat shrink next to a soldered joint down by the switch , so i crimped it .this took a long time to find .
good news was the emissions were pretty good ...
and to celebrate another year of mot'ness , i popped on my new name plates ..
noicy noice noice ... i like em !
regards
robert
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Does Veronica mind being called a saucy minx?
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She DEMANDS it !Does Veronica mind being called a saucy minx?
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oooooo....
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i wonder if it will even get noticed !
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debossgarage.com
i wonder if it will even get noticed !
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Well you have 1 vote nowoooooo....
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i wonder if it will even get noticed !
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