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by Mike M
Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:26 pm
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: 36 Ten - grease nipple size
Replies: 2
Views: 3900

36 Ten - grease nipple size

Hi All! I'm trying to prepare my Ten for the MOT. The Luvax Bijur chassis lube system has stopped working and the plan is to charge all the oiled joints by hand using a nipple and oil-bearing grease gun (my Wanner gun takes oil). I am having problems locating a nipple with the correct thread. 1/8thB...
by Mike M
Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:04 pm
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system
Replies: 10
Views: 13196

Re: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system

Tony, Thanks for that. Common sense was that the hot flow from the motor wouldn't be delivered to the top of the radiator, surely? But that was what appearred to be the physical set up - presumably evacuating the head from the front draws cooler liquid from the bottom of the rad in to the back elbow...
by Mike M
Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:34 am
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system
Replies: 10
Views: 13196

Re: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system

OK - thermostat housing cleaned out and system flushed (no more green antifreeze), the engine will run happily (fast tickover) for over half an hour. By pass system is working - heats up fairly promptly until stat opens and brings in the radiator until the whole cooling system is more or less at the...
by Mike M
Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:41 am
Forum: Veteran/Vintage Rovers
Topic: SU carb flooding
Replies: 4
Views: 7928

Re: SU carb flooding

Bill, Researching via the Net shows that the early sloper carbs' float level was regulated by a leather bellows, but later versions (courtesy of Morris Motors) used a brass float with a bottom, attached float needle. (There is a video sequence on You Tube demonstrating adjustment). The needle is pre...
by Mike M
Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:31 pm
Forum: Veteran/Vintage Rovers
Topic: SU carb flooding
Replies: 4
Views: 7928

Re: SU carb flooding

Bill, No experience of a sloper SU, but the float chamber is surely much as later types? My general rule of thumb is that the level in a full float chamber should be sufficient to guarantee the correct height in the main jet - too low and the main jet supplies weak mixture, too high and it supplies ...
by Mike M
Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:35 am
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: Pre War parts
Replies: 1
Views: 2859

Pre War parts

I have recently come across a very useful seller on eBay (seller name billhughes) who has a quantity of new, old stock items - in my case, specific wiper arms for the car (such a variety from model to model, year to year).
by Mike M
Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:20 am
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system
Replies: 10
Views: 13196

Re: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system

Hmmm. OK - the stat housing is of some crude alloy, the casting elbow on the back of the head is similar (but has nothing inside it). I've had previous problems with mazak door exterior handles which wouldn't rechrome. I'd left the antifreeze in whilst the car was dry-stored (but not frostproof) dur...
by Mike M
Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:39 pm
Forum: Veteran/Vintage Rovers
Topic: 1931 Rover Repair Manual for download!
Replies: 4
Views: 9219

Re: 1931 Rover Repair Manual for download!

FWIW, I have a copy of Tony Holder's, RSR-produced 1970's "P2 Workshop Manual" and a wodge of pre-War Rover Service Sheets. I could scan and send odd bits as email attachments, should anyone need any.
by Mike M
Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:18 pm
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system
Replies: 10
Views: 13196

Re: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system

Tony, Thanks for the reply and thought. I drained the system down this morning - crystal clear, fluorescent green antifreeze solution. Removed the thermostat housing and was amazed to find it packed with a part gel, part crystalline green deposit (gel looked just like Swarfega) completely blocking t...
by Mike M
Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:41 pm
Forum: Wilks' cars P1 and P2, thats cars up to 1947
Topic: 1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system
Replies: 10
Views: 13196

1936 Ten Saloon Cooling system

Gentlemen, Having fired up the car after a lengthy lay up, it seems that the water pump is emptying the block in to the bottom of the radiator, but getting no water back in return - as the engine runs, cold water gets pushed out of the overflow after a minute or two. The return pipe from the back of...