Re: Barries's 1950 standard 8

Posted by africapackard On 2008/1/14 1:36:47

Update of the past weekends progress.

Removed all the left rear door inner workings and thourougly cleaned them. Surprisingly very little wear on the parts for the lock and window winder. Just old caked on hard grease. Also cleaned all rubber moudings on the quarter windows and treated with a rubber cleaner.

After a 2 day search found a size replacement for the oil filter locally. Will have to see if this is successfull, but it fits all right.

Noticed that the carburettor is a double throat Stromberg made in Australia!!?? Works fine.

Bled the brake system and the peddle is good, but the right front wheel cylinder seems to be frozen. At least I dont have to stop with the hand brake anymore.

Fixed the indicator stalk. Really only needed a cleanup.

Next will still be the cleaning and treatment of the door sills and cavities. Do not look forward to this!