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Bringing it home... Runner and driver but various body woes :-)

Well it is cetainly in bits. Good luck.

You can't put them up with the original three (the way things work at present).
As Tim said you can add them through the thread, or if you want them at the top you will have to start a new thread...

John.... It has a ways down to go yet! .... Starting again from scratch with the bare chassis. :-)


Graham.... I'm fine with them being through the thread.... Means I can caption them easily. Apologies for the fuzzy pic... Didn't realise how blurry it was til I posted it.

Need to get my finger out.... My wife is wanting us to drive down to Portugal in October in it to spectate at the FIA Hillclimb Masters.... Will have friends competing there..... Remains to be seen. :-)

K

Keith, great that you are really getting in amongst it now. Thanks for the pic too, be assured you have plenty of TM flies on the wall willing you ever onward.... I too have breathed in more than my fare share of rust, welding fumes, cataloy dust and thinners of all types for more than 40 years, both on my cars and m/cycles of all sorts. Were it not for lens stabilisation or tripod use all my pics would look like your last...you can improve whereas it seems I can only get worse... (-:

Been through the top corner of Portugal in the Morgan while touring Spain from Santander down to Los Romanes in the South and back up...fond memories... great adventures ahead await you...(-:

Power to your elbow Keith.

Thanks Luddite..... I really want to get it down to the bare chassis.... While that's away being blasted I'll finish checking and painting the cross frame /suspension and the rear axle/springs.... That means that when the chassis comes back it's a short job to bolt that stuff back on and have it on its wheels .... And voila! Psychologically you have a car again to bolt refurbed stuff back on. Always found big jobs like this are a lot about managing motivation.

FIA Hillclimb Masters is in Braga October 9-11, 2020.... Won't be fast enough in my older racecar to qualify but will know everyone in the UK team.... Loads of the racers go over to spectate, heckle and party... Just after the end of the Hillclimb season so it's a bit of a racing driver's 'works outing'.... Not betting on whether the Morgan makes it but I'll be there by some form of transport!! :-)

Cheers

K

Things are progressing fine.... Have the car mostly stripped awaiting removal of body tub to free up the chassis.... As the bits come off they're checked, cleaned and sprayed ready to go back on.... Have a nice, and growing cupboard of shiny bits ready for the rebuild.

More pics soon hopefully.... Have been pulling the ancillaries off the engine ready for its new coat of heat proof paint.... Have been scratching my head about the cooling fan..... Pic below (hopefully)... Proper Ford part.... No damage or missing blades so someone has gone to great thought and effort to deliberately make it asymmetrical (in fact I can't see any position in which it is symmetrical around a diagonal) .... Anyone here know why they would go to the trouble (some worry about harmonics or not wanting to create a noise that 'beats' with some other engine frequency??).. Just idle curiosity really but do like to get to the bottom of stuff like this!! :-)




Cheers

K

Yep, exactly that - supposed be quieter that a equally spaced fan. It prevents resonance.

Probably the same reason that tyre tread blocks while appearing identical are not all the same size (hetrodyning?)

Measuring tread blocks will make a change from counting louvres!

Cheers Guys... Guessed it was something along those lines, but sometimes there's oddball reasons outside my logic.... Shows the attention to detail when they do the development of even something like a fan.

K

OMG!!
A whole new craze just starting