Recent content by John Oxborough

Further to Andrew's posts on this thread, my post related to the position that the club appeared to be taking regarding Stoneleigh Show. To quote from Chairman's Chat in Fortification Issue 94 "there is quite a strong consensus that we shouldn't attend Stoneleigh any more because we no longer...

Hi Ten 40s attended today along with enthusiastic club members with cars in build. Thanks Ian for booking the pitch and thanks to the owners for bringing their cars, all presented to an exceptionally high standard which as usual proved very popular with the visiting public, well...

Hi The club have not listed this show in the events listing, however on the shows own website the club has been allocated pitch 18A as in previous years. Hope to see lots of 40s there on the Sunday, previous years have seen as many as 25 cars, any chance of 50 this year? Kit built cars are the...

Dave, The Donington event is over 3 days, Saturday,Sunday, and the bank holiday Monday, I intend to go to Donington on the Saturday ,Stoneleigh on the Sunday and then back to Donington on the Monday, may do the Saturday in my Cooper S , it is great to drive and easy to park, see you there...

Hi Steve, For the past few years the Sunday has had the greater turn out of GT40 cars, I intend to be there on the Sunday this year, I do not know if the club has booked a dedicated club space for this event, I do hope a space is available, members running and building cars from kits form the...

Hi, Received 101 yesterday ,a bit later than usual, but the areas where most of the committee and scribes reside have suffered dreadful flooding this year and their day to day lives have been turned upside down it is commendable that this issue has been sent out at all, well done!!! Mr Catt has...

Hi I have made up inner wheel wells using flat premoulded sheets of fibreglass cut to shape and then bonded in and further strengthened using more mat and resin. The sheets of flat laid up fibreglass were bought from a local fibreglass moulding company, I used the smooth mould release face on...

Richard, The mk1 and mk2 Granada uprights have a taper type hub bearing adjustable via a castle nut under the dust cap on the outer end of the stub axle, the mk3 Granada upright is the lower end of the strut type suspension used on most ford cars etc, your GTD fabricated/modular uprights only...

Richard, you have the GTD modular uprights, these use the MK3 Granada hub bearings, non adjustable, double ball races,replace as a bearing assembly. I have replaced these on Granadas and still have had some play detectable at the wheel, so buy gen ford or GKN quality bearings. consult MK3 manual...

Richard, Fuchs/Silkolene Silktran SYN 5 oil is recommended by Quaffe for their ATB diffs, I have used this oil in my car for 12000 miles and can recommend this High quality product. Our Renault gear boxes are operating at the higher end of their design criteria so look after them by using the...

Rob, When you have taken out your tanks, drill a couple of holes in the lower sill panel in line with the clips on the flexi water pipe connecting hose, very handy if you have a leak here just to retighten the clips through these access holes. The CAV I built in 06/07 came with alloy tanks in...

Alan, Had another trip to Silverstone (Ford Fair)200 miles and all is ok with my Teflon fuel hoses, no fuel smells, no leaks, Teflon is the way forward! John.

JimmyMac Thanks for the link to the fuel hose article, everyone running our type of cars should read this and replace/upgrade their fuel systems without delay, cheers John.

Rob, consider the alloy tank option as Frank has suggested, the ethanol content in modern roadside fuels is destroying rubber and nitrile rubber fuel lines, it may be your bladder tank leak is due to this ethanol fuel attack. Check with the tank manufacture that the tank is suitable for roadside...

John, The joint in your picture is a "ball and trunnion" type, this type of joint was used on Rolls Royce Silver Shadow cars 1965 onwards, The joint in Bobs picture is indeed a "triplode" ,so called due to having 3 bearings/trunnions. On the Rolls Royce the joint was filled with EP90 oil via a...