You'll probably have guessed from my recent posts I've been having some trouble with the clutch and the Overdrive on my SPRINT recently.
Quite some time ago the OD stopped working on a trip to a car show, about 2.5 hours away and it was absolutely no fun driving home without it. A mate and I tracked down the problem through a process of elimination to the inhibitor switch, so I bought a new one. As I was planning a time to install the thing, the slave cylinder packed it in too, so I did some research, found that it had the wrong one on the car and bought a new one of those too.
Now, like a good few who visit these pages, I am of a certain age and suffer from Osteoarthritis. But I have it all over the place, including in my neck and shoulders. Its become impossible for me to bear my own weight on my arms and getting under cars (& back out from under them) is almost impossible. I knew of another local mechanic who is sympathetic to older cars and he agreed to do the job for me. When he'd finished and because its on Historic (limited use) registration with a log book, he called and asked if I could take the car for a drive to check if the OD was now working as it should.
I filled in the log book and noticed that it had been about 15 months since I'd driven it last.
It was so good to be behind the wheel of this magic little car again. It drives so nicely. Its very responsive and handles really well with excellent road holding. Can you tell that I was chuffed? I'd missed it.
BUT, the OD still wasn't working and it turns out that when the new switch was being installed, he'd accidentally snapped one of the silk wires to the gear lever in/out switch. I cant wait for it to be made right, so I can do some serious driving again.
My thanks to those of you who took the time to answer my recent questions and especially Kiwi Geoff, who provided helpful photos on his posts. A pictures definitely worth a thousand words.
Cheers,
Rob
_________________ "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it". HENRY FORD
1915 Ford "T" Speedster (Evangeline), 1921 Ford "T" Tourer (Anastasia), 1955 Zephyr 6 (Purdey), 1975 Dolomite SPRINT (Daisy), & a couple of moderns.
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