Side Tracked...

While waiting for parts another project has come my way, a very nice Series 2 FHC that needs a little TLC before it's passed on to it's next owner.  A dealer of high end motorcars, called me this morning to see if I could take a look at the car and sort out a miss-reading temperature gauge.  It was working fine this weekend in Sun Valley, however the gauge started reading high even when the engine was cold.

Started looking into it and found the sending unit to be reading 40 ohms at 85F where as it should be reading about 300 so it's likely a sender issue which sadly has been a common problem with aftermarket senders.  Just hoping that a new one will work as I have heard of them being bad right out of the box.  Drake would like to have the car ready for delivery next week so the pressure is on.

The car needed a few little things, the carbs need topping up with damper oil, the brake fluid was down below the 'fill' mark so topped that up (no sign of leaks, probably never topped up).  One of my pet peeves has always been the wrong installation of the windscreen squirter, folks seem to think they squirt out of the end rather than the side and often have the end pointed towards the windscreen.  This car was no different but I was able to turn them without loosening the nut  (very hard to get to with the dash on the car-even then one needs to be a contortionist with small hands) so lucked out.

This car has undergone an extensive restoration and is very nicely done as one can see from the pictures.

Windscreen squirters pointed the wrong way ;-)

Dampers needed oil, look at those shiny carbs!

Can't see it in this picture but this car even had the fragile plastic 'covers' for the fan electrical connections.