Cheers, I'll investigate today, snow and rain here so no good for paint .

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Will it?

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Miracles do happen...sometimes.

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A bit more work to do on these compression spring things.

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The spring's gone on this too,(basically it's gonna be Winter forever). Luckily thanks to this site http://2cvco.canalblog.com/ and it's Google translate facility, I can see and understand what it is supposed to look like.

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Found some spring steel, put it in the woodburner and had a mug of rosie.

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Just need to harden it etc.
Work tomorrow with the Volunteers, hope it stops raining .

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Whole thing had to be warmed up to break the rust seal on the cups.

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Needle rollers rusted in. Nut is essential.

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Anyone who's done this will know what it's like
Flaming nightmare
And that's only half of it...

I had to do this on an old spitfire I had.

I hope the nightmares don't start again.

On one occasion(long tome ago) took the angle grinder! to the trunnion.

It crossed my mind to use a slitting disc.

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Got the Flamer!
Hiring an engine crane for next weekend, plenty to do before then.

Flamming cutting disc ...

A Dremel to clean up the rusty edges, does help. I did put my driveshafts with the universal joint in a bucket of diesel for 2 weeks. Everything came out easy after that.

Yep, lack of forward planning on my part

Look at these, it's amazing what's available now. https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/collec ... rsion-5-9v
Might be a squeeze to get them into the shell though.

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Well there's £30.00's worth of weekend hire sitting doing nothing

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New rubber finally, post Millenium