On the thread surrounding the wear of the pedal box unit at the cylinder
pickup end of things - if you don't repair this it will also wear the
forks on the end of the brake/clutch cylinder as well as the same end of
the pelads themselves.
Left long enough they will fail altogether and leave you stranded, as my
Spitfire did many years ago. With everything hidden under rubber covers
it can go un-noticed or misread as clutch sticking, etc.
You can easily remove all thse parts and have them fixed. Even brazing in
a length of hard stell tubing that will accept a brass insert to take the
waer will do it. I did this with stell tubing, a bit of copper piping
(plumbing stuff) and a cheap brazing kit from Canadian Tire.
This emergency repair when on, as they so often do, for years and years.
Once I got into serious restorations I got a good MIG setup and at that
point welded everything over solid and gronund it flush again. Drilled
out to take the proper bushing you're all set again, and the feel of the
braking and declutching will be SO GREAT after all that slop is gone.
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Now for my problem. I bought a new starter solenoid for the Spit 1500,
because the old one broke a contract. Now the thing is sticking. Some
days I keep in, turn the key and get nothing. Try the headlights... xero.
So, I get out, tap the solenoid (on the fire wall on the Spit) and away
she goes.
Yesterday it did this to me on the lunch hour at the park. BUT ... not
when I started it. Nope - it started fine and two minutes later the
engine just cut out on the main road. I didn't think this could be the
solenoid. It either moves over to the start the car or doesn't. However,
I got out, tapped the solenoid and away we went.
Last night I checked all the connections, grounds, etc., and it's all fine.
It's not a thing you can take aprt, and I'll bet it;s just a little burr
on something. Any suggestions other than replacement? You can't return
electrical parts needless to say. Is there a dry lub I can try to get in
there?
Thanks netland! Have a great weekend.
Chris Ball triumph@io.org
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