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Managed to get the broken one welded and ground. Reassembled the mechanism. Now the handbrake works
Whilst the bar was out made a detailed measurement of all the parameters. A local engineering company can make me a couple of new ones. Will have them made over the winter months when I can spare an original one as a sample. Unless I find a source of new ones.

I shall be sleeping well this evening after being victorious with my on going battle over the last few weeks with a high pitched front end body/suspension squeak when driving over undulating surfaces.
It’s been driving me nuts and I haven’t been able to locate or fix it. Grrrrr

I’ve had the cowl slackened off, grill out, one damper off, wing fixings checked, frame fixing tightened but nothing. Until today and one squirt of lube to the rear of the angled tie rod bracket/nut fixing that pokes through the front frame and bingo! It stopped instantly, what a relief....

Thought it worth a post….

Was that diagonal tie rod loose at all Rog?

I give mine a good heave when on the ramp as this is when they would be under minimum tension. So far (25,000 miles) they always seem rock solid.

I have started tracing/sorting some rattles and squeaks that have crept in. Yesterday I oiled the piping. Over the weekend I’ll be doing a spanner check under the front. Unlikely to be out and about in the car. GRRR. Fine weather and not out.....
One annoying noise is from the front passenger side dash/screen area. Something is moving and an annoying creak/squeak. I’ll check the dash fitting for security and rubbing against the frame/leather.

Yes Richard it was the diagonal die rod lower fixing. I think it’s just the natural flexure manifesting as a squeak on this floating fixing. All appears very tight but thanks I will check with the wheels off the ground too.

Well today I raised the front and checked the tie rods. On the face of it all seemed very tight indeed. However I thought I would just back off the lock nuts and check the actual tension. When I did it was clear there wasn’t any pre load or tension in the rods at all, on either side. There may have been tension originally when the car was built but that had now dissipated. This probably explains my original squeak!

So what to do? I thought it might be prudent to restore a little tension to improve the rigidity so jacked the car in the center such that the lower axle beam was spot on level (wheels off). I was quite impressed how straight the lower axle beam actually was. I then applied a little tension in the rods, about 1.5 turns of the nut each side. I have no idea if this is adequate but didn’t want to over stress anything. This was enough to changed the angle of the out board portion of the lower axle by around 0.2 degrees on each side.

So everything is nicely symmetrical with a little tension now. Previously the car drove very nicely anyway and this is only a minor tweak so hopefully it won’t change anything too much . A test drive tomorrow, we shall see how things go….

Polished up the Roadster 100 and took a lot of photos for Bonham's The Market auction site. I'm not up to the standard of some of the skilled snappers on this site, so I hope they are accepted.

That metallic green looks lovely in the sunshine

Discovered the other day before a quick spin out that I had a screw in one of the tyres, which accounted for the PSI of only 16.

Bought one of those self repair kits on Amazon where you effectively push in a sticky strip of rubber to seal the hole. Took more force than I imagined, but worked a treat. Plenty of more strips in the hand kit, now gives me reassurance should I pick up a puncture mid journey. Purchased a handy cordless compressor as well which takes up less space than a conventional pump, which automatically stops when at the correct PSI. Jobs a good un.

I hope Bonhams' bidders agree with you!