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The Classic Marque

You're saying singular "front wheel." Is it just one wheel or are both front wheels locked? If just one, I wonder if the hydraulics are OK but the flex hose to the caliper is constricted. That may have already ben suggested and eliminated but I can't remember so just checking.

Jud

I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense. However the pedal pressure is much lighter than some of the 9-spring clutches I have used.

Ha yeah. I remember those blokes on fairground rides Guy. Hopping from one car to the next; esp' if there were birds in the car, to 'ave a butcher's at a bit of skirt. 😅😅

Can you imagine the elf n safety uproar if they did that today? 🤣🤣🤣.

Good on yer Alan.👍

I would hate to have to get rid of my Frogeye as I have had it since 1969. I still use both of my cars (Frogeye & Sebring Rep). I am just returned from a Battlefield Tour (Normandy) that I organised for my car Group. We also took in the Cabourg car show. A change of cars and I am attending Caux Retro (Normandy) in July.
Looking toward September I am planning to attend the Reims Gueux Circuit C...

Yep. Understand completely Guy. It comes to everybody.

My uncle's Spitfire. His 3 Velocettes. And with his Velo's, the sale value has really plummeted, because at 82 now, he's not alone in selling his treasures. The market's awash. Once £15/20 thou bikes, are selling at a £few/4 thou; assuming a buyer can be found.

It's the trouble with our generation. We've been so good at ext...

It's only a little bit of a twist, Anamn. I said a 1/4 turn but it's probably not nearly that much. Just a slight roll with your fingers.

Which reminds of me 16 year old. 'helping' at the dodgems when the fair came to town. Jumping from one to the other collecting fares, holding the power pole and rolling a ciggy, one handed in one of those little roller machines. Oh so cool! Never did lik...

Aliexpress👍 and Temu as well.

It's the calculations that phase me, Dave.
I can work out what 'lift' is needed by finding out how much the bonnet weighs.
But it's where to locate the strut fittings - don't want to start drilling holes in the bodywork until I'm 100% sure where the brackets need to sit.

Watched a YouTube video with someone fitting the kit to an MGB. Unim...

Not using it anything like as much as I used to. Hard to justify it and the Frogeye. And just a part of the 'downsizing syndrome' that comes with an excess of birthdays. That inevitable horizon isn't pushing away so freely as it once did!

I've spent a bit more time on this now, it appears to be an 'evolving situation '...

1) Engine off, pedal with an inch or two of movement and no need to pump up the pedal as before (air seems to have gone now...), hydraulic and air systems tight. Front wheel clear of ground to check for locked brakes.

2) Start engine, pedal moves once normally then goes hard, engine off. Front wh...