Spitfire restoration steering wheel

Welded the little bars back on the outside and filled and painted >> one shiny steering wheel. Not looking as good as I was hoping but that will do for now.

Cleaned and painted the wiper motor while I was at it.

Steering wheel before the week end

Spokes are broken on right and left side

SU Carburetors like new

This time I had all I need...

 

 

The new parts I needed were mostly :

- the rubber holding the tank in place as I noticed they hold the tank at the right position and when it's in the wrong position the choke moving mecanism jams

- the butterfly shaft as they were really badly worn and surely creating a leak. The wear is impressive

 

Was exciting to put it all back together, I was worried I might forget what goes where and I did have to dismantle several times after I put back together as I did some steps in the wrong order.

I cleaned them best I could and they look really nice now. Notice on the left the bag of parts that have been replaced, even the needle is new.

Moment of excitement as I install these back on the car. Refilled the inside of the pots with 20/50 engine oil. Did some basic tuning, not sure how good that is but that will have to do for now. Looks so good and the engine runs weh eh !

I used the following technique to tune, from an article I found on classic car magazine uk. Thanks to them, that got me started and I found it simple to understand.

Sunset on carb parts

Unfortunately I won't be able to finish this week end because I realized there are additional worn parts that I need to replace as well : the butterfly shaft and the grommet connecting the chamber as it allows it to move causing the choke tube to stick.

To be continued in a few days...

Carbs rebuild

Second time off but this time with the carb rebuild kit. Lets hope i have the correct needles.