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The Classic Marque

I have known Ashley Hinton for many years and have been privileged to be able to take people for guided tours of his factory. I doubt that he could squeeze any more machinery into the building.

My wishbone pans & kingpins are now over twenty years old on both of my Sprites. Failures are often due to lack of servicing. The early lubrication chart says to grease at 3000ml intervals but mine p...

Thanks! Will give it a go

How do wishbones fail?... catastrophically or wear in the 'threaded' bearing that takes the fulcrum pin. With regular greasing these should last a while. I replaced mine several years' ago. If l have to replace one/both l won't be too concerned where they come from...they'll outlast my Sprideting days...my guess is that as these cars start to get as old as their owners, as it were, their number on...

Many years ago, there would have been much higher demand for replacement or reconditioned wishbones, with many more cars - Spridgets and A30/35/40 - in daily use.

It’s now very much a niche market, with fewer cars travelling fewer miles. Many of which won’t even be MoT tested.

Probably not viable as a standalone business, with the cost of premises and all the equipment. Possibl...

Current situation reminds me of the Python sketch where the outcome of the by-election was being analysed:" coming second is when you win but don't return the MP"...

Surely this is just the sort of enterprise Ashley Hinton would take up.

Anamn, the King family made concerted efforts to sell the business as a going concern some years ago. I think we discussed it here at some length. In the end no one was sufficiently interested to take it on. So other than these few old stock ones we are condemned to accept the second rate offerings and poor quality of the main suppliers.
Hopefully the tooling will now be bought and put back to ...

As Willy says, there may be contact resistance which could stop the flashers working. I'm guessing you checked the switch with a DMM (meter)? If so, you may get continuity on that but it only needs 2 or 3 ohms contact resistance and, assuming you have 21W flasher bulbs, then a current of several amps will cause a significant volt drop across the switch contacts.

You're dead right Willy.

He's essentially capitulated to Iran.

So how the f*ck can the US ever stand up against China and Russia, if it can't fully put down a much less powerful Iran?

I had a similar issue after fitting a new hazard switch on a 1500, the next time the car went out all the indicators failed, I ended up searching through the bin for the old hazard switch put that back on and all good again.