Thread: What have I done! IIa sitting out front.

Been and gone to the UK for a couple of weeks to see the Olds ( and just happened to pick up a coil whilst I was passing Dingocroft )

Whilst I was there Dad and I went to the Imperial War Museum airfield at Dunsfold in Cambridgeshire. Amazing place. They have SO much really cool stuff - the first test Concorde, a Blackbird, a B52D Superfortress, Vulcan, Canberras, Tornadoes, Harriers, etc it was awesome, plus a load of old engines to stare at.
There also a cool Land Warfare display in one of the buildings, whats really good is the building opens to the outside on 3 sides, so all the tanks, trucks, etc are given a run every once in a while, in the mud!!
Whilst I was there I saw a SAS D90. Apparently these are nicknamed 'Dinky' as they're the smaller version of the 110 Pink Panther ('Pinky')
Here's a couple of shots...

Haven't done anything since before going to the UK to sort out the hesitation on accelerating, but I have chucked on a new coil and put a new spade on the ignition wire.



I'm wondering whether it might be worth fitting a relay to that ignition feed and running a thicker wire to the coil, might give a bit more oomph to the spark.

The main reason for not trying to sort out the running was because my canvas truck cab arrived







Its not a simple install (there were no destructions for starters) and you need to install some extra tiedowns on the back of the tub





And rivet the metal leading edge of the canopy to the windscreen surround, plus adding fittings to hold the tonneau bar. None of it hard but it took a couple of trial fits and a bit of time to get right.





but I'm pretty happy

And I forgot to to say that whilst I was at Dunsfold, they were setting up for the AirShow on the weekend. I got to hear a Rolls Royce Merlin engine at full bore from 50 metres away as they were fine tuning a Spitfire ready for her fly past on the weekend (anniversary of the Battle of Britain)

And I also forgot to mention...

Chatting to Tim at Dingocroft, I mentioned the differences between the clutch release bearing and tophat sleeve (see a few pages back). He seemed to think that my original parts are part of the fully sealed clutch withdrawal unit found on the later gearboxes.
The giveaway is the seal inside the tophat and a smooth input shaft, rather than the usual spiral version.

Wonder why my gearbox has a A suffix?

Originally Posted by Ozdunc

And I forgot to to say that whilst I was at Dunsfold, they were setting up for the AirShow on the weekend. I got to hear a Rolls Royce Merlin engine at full bore from 50 metres away as they were fine tuning a Spitfire ready for her fly past on the weekend (anniversary of the Battle of Britain)

Very cool indeed. My boy and I went to the Battle of Britain Autumn Air Show at Duxford last year. What a hoot. The Spitfires were fantastic, but the Sally B - the only operational B-17 in Europe - was the highlight of the day for me. Here is a 2 min video of her that I shot.

I'm curious about an image in post No 83, image No 2 showing the 'Dinky' and in the background is an International 4 x 4 as designed & used by the Australian Army, makes you wonder why/how it got there, cheers Dennis

Sally B was sitting on the tarmac but sadly for me she was unmanned. Beautiful plane though, up there with the Lancaster.

Dennis, that part of the display was on the Gulf war and the whole display contained trucks and tanks from all nations. It starts at WW1 with trains, horse drawn carts and towed guns, and evolves through WWII with US, German and Italian through to the current day. All* the vehicles have seen active service, apart from one Tiger tank which was a repro built for 'Saving Private Ryan'

* It might not be 'all' but most the vehicles and planes in the display had personal histories of where they were deployed and in the case of the planes the dates they were flown to Duxford

Replaced the new carb with the old one (after giving it a bit of a clean) on Fri night.
Turned it over took a while to fire up, and sounded a bit off when idling, so I checked the timing it was about 2deg ATDC. I can't have tightened the dizzy too well.
Anyway, reset it back to 6deg BTDC and took it for a spin.

WOW!!!! Its got some power!!!

(Power being a relative term, mind )

Didn't have a great amount of time but did about 6km, enough to warm him up. Got back, nice idle, but chuffing from the exhaust a bit too often, checked the timing again sitting at ~8deg BDTC
Its running nicely with no pinking, and from what I've read about electronic dizzys they allow a fair bit of extra advance over points, so for now I'll leave it as it is.
Gave the idle screw a 1/4turn out to reduce the chuffing to about a chuff/min (that's a registered term of measurement)
Then I ran out of petrol. Luckily Bill was idling in the driveway when it happened. Fuel gauge has suddenly stopped working How does that happen?
Come to think of it the temp gauge isn't working either, maybe theres something afoot with the voltage regulator thingy behind the dashboard. Hmmm...