Re: Barries's 1950 standard 8

Posted by africapackard On 2008/3/12 2:50:32

Had a good weekend cleaning and painting the interior floor. Removed all seats and carpeting that was left. Luckily no rust through, only surface. It is now painted a nice black anti-rust.

Had a few serious problems with the driver side(righthand) door. First off the quarter window handle broke clean off. Was rusted solid....then while trying to remove the glass to repair the handle shaft the glass cracked!!! Luckily a friend of mine owns a glass cutting business and he could provide me with a laminated cut piece. I repaired the handle last night and it seems to work OK. Tonight will install the new glass in the frame.

The door locking mechanism is in a bad state and has already been repaired countless time (probable why the door opens when taking a left lol!!) I will be searching for a replacement but in the meantime will have to make do. The winder mechanism is in good condition.

While removing the cover over the pedals noticed that the clutch pedal shaft has a huge amount of play sideways. Hope there is a bushing on the pedal shaft that I can replace. The mechanism is strange here and might be interesting cause it is right hand drive. There is a cable running from the pedal around a pulley and then this cable pulls on the clutch shaft. While the access tunnel is open will also replace the gearbox oil and clean up all around it. Surprisingly it does not seem to be leaking at all. Maybe there is little oil left!!

Will post pics soon.