A Few Small Wolesley Hornet Spl Jobs.

 

Previously we made a wind deflector for the driver's Brookland screen, as with all things on this car, we tried to make it appropriate to the period. As you can see below we had rather neglected the passenger, especially if he or she were grappling with maps!

So the following shows the sequence for making another almost the same, (but I couldnt find the nice brass profile I had used in the first), this time I simply formed corner plates from light brass sheet. We tapped the Brooklands frame to accept BA screws but there is little room to spare whilst avoiding the sandwiched glass. Leather is not shown here in the assembly sequence, it is 3mm saddle hide.

Fabrication.

Triumph Gloria Vitesse Cont'd

 

Along with other items for paint, here is one of the bonnet landing panels refreshed.

This fuel pump may not have been barely used but after sitting in storage the valves and diaphragm had fine corrosion dust from aluminium and ferrous items. Clean and check points and settings should sort it out.

Below we have the beginnings of a batch of trim fitting T bolts. They will each be cut from the row the heads are machined near flush and then slide into position on a painted brass hollow trim strip and fitted along the bonnet.

The previous ferrous items had corroded away and so these are non ferrous.

Odds and ends of metal strips refreshed for fitting, it is hard to see but they are dark blue and black where required.

This dark blue must always have a black undercoat / primer too.

Triumph Gloria Vitesse work through late summer and ongoing.... more to follow.

Above, bumper parts fettle and prepare.

Below: Chrome fettle and dress after plating to remove flash with a needle 

diamond file and Arkansas oilstone

We used her for Jacob and Millie's wedding (even though the fuel pump stopped), hence the discarded wedding veil and flowers on the side. 

As the wedding took place in their home venue, it was still part of the day in the beautiful Jurassic coast backdrop. The car is wonderfully elegant and rakish.

Discarded wedding veils 

In further posts, you will see this faux grain work being recovered in worn areas.

To be uploaded shortly.

A few touch ups at the same time as painting other small items.

Above and Below: The starter pull rod outertube had a crack around a 

previous repair, it is not very pretty but here I have swaged a counter bore 

and soldered a new sleeve partially overlapping the old. I had to work 

quickly to avoid melting the original repair solder.

Fuel pump clean and set.

1946 Studebaker rear main seal adaptation from a Chrysler

Here you can see the rear main bearing half lip seal. This has been a problem because after extensive searching we could not find the right one even in the US. Finally the owner tracked this Chrysler item down and with a little alteration and mandrel tooling we managed to fit this, allow it to progressively settle under a load and trimmed to give an initial large nip as with shell bearings and then after further time under load and with use of a mandrel made to crank journal size, we finally carefully shaved and oilstoned the seal joint face to give a nominal 0.004" nip.

 

Above you can see the seal before initial trimming.

                            Here we are using feeler gauges and micrometer blue to gauge the contact of thr lip to see its position and the amount it grips the feeler gauge. Access is tricky throughout.

Supercharger Adaptation Continued.

 Some more Supercharger drive over the last two weeks.

All very time consuming as the clock races as if supercharged toward Christmas!