Dave Adams's Blog (114)

I had a spare gasket at home so it got swapped today and this is what i found.....

you can see the gasket is also failing at point 1 and it is going at 2 as well

on this picture you can see the gaps in the gasket face.....

car is…

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Any one out there willing to put their hopefully standard (as near as possible) Dutton Phaeton (or a Malaga B+) on a show stand for the duration of a show with 20-30 similar early kit cars at Donnington?

The car should be as early as possible with a tidy appearance and on as near as possible contemporary wheels and as close too the factory design as is feasible, it does not need to be a concourse car  just tidy. Something to show us all in a good light. Suggestions please.

MY car used to have the geometry as follows...

Front;

Castor N/S  1 degree 55 minutes

          O/S  5 degrees

Camber N/S -ve 2 degrees 02 minutes

            O/S -ve 1 degree 19 minutes

Rear;

had a slight thrust (steering) to N/S of 0 degrees 28 minutes (had worn bushes, so i thought that was the problem)

Today i have just had it checked on the same machine and got the following......

Front;

castor N/S 6…

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Our two when we got them august last year......

since EVERYONE else is doing show and tell.

At stafford last year i was approached by the regional secretary of the robin hood owners to see if we are interested in a track day. they would like to share costs if we can get enough interest. however they prefer a week day as its half price at about £15-20 a car. their preferred venue is Curborough (litchfield) are there any members interested?
The ROCAR SEC. also owns a Melos and uses it. so he is a fan of Duttons as well.

single speed motor, a bit of work and it will look ok. if it is any good it can stay.

here is the tow bar i made for my car, it also has my spare wheel attachment on it. the long bar bolts to the chassis and sits under the boot floor, it bolts to the wider of the two cross bars welded to the tow bar assembly its made in a giant "U" shape to go around my fuel tank the taller of the  cross braces is a steady brace when the spare wheel is fitted and is not used…

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/pair-front-coil-over-suspension-units-Dutton-kit-car-/260865220511?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3cbcc75f9f

 

if anyone is looking for some adjustable's on the cheap..

well i have said i am going today.....and it is a little inclement....just a tad that is.....actually its been peeing it down since 3 or 4 this morning and i need to go today to settle a bill i have with Adrian, who wont be there tomorrow apparently which promises to be a much better day. hope i am not the only one to show up. I don't fancy a lonely day in rainy Newark.....

Well it went through at the second attempt, failed on O/S/R suspension bushes, O/S hand brake inop. (Poxy linkage butchered by previous owner) these are normal for my dutton, and the N/S inboard rack joint has some play in it (very successful bodge sorted that one, but it could do with a new rack (triumph spitfire) until i can fit the Cortina wish bones and the ford rack.

so now its ready for Stoneleigh.

 

My car will have a whole new front end on it next year, from the triumph front end (with ford adaptors) is going and will be replaced with a Ford Cortina set up ala Ron Champion's book. But i want to make the camber and the castor adjustable, the camber is easy to figure out but what methods has anyone out there used for castor adjustment?

I can think of several ways of doing it, but some seem overly complicated to achieve.

and if your wondering why i want to change a good working… Continue

My friend is scrapping a Sierra with a 1600 pinto and 5 speed gear box, he wants £90 for both, they will have to be collected from barnsley let me know if your interested on 07850773394 or snowy2 at gmail.com

Hi all as some of you may well know, Sandra and myself went to the German Dutton owners annual get together on the 8/5/10. Having made the trip to stoneleigh and back with out a murmur, we expected no problems. to be honest i have spent loads on the car in sorting various problems on the car, and thought there was nothing left to replace. 39km out of europort in Holland we hit a big pothole at speed on the motorway and snapped the top off the O/S rear shocker. Tom from Germany recovered us,… Continue

A work colleague of mine who lives in the bolton area has a Marlin (swb) with a 1600 in it for sale plus he says he has a spare engine which is a 2.0L fiat twincam it is registered on a Q plate but needs sorting for MOT etc. he's asking £1200 i have details if anyone is interested.