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Hello,
I’ve checked the club’s records and I’m afraid I can find no trace of this car. That’s not to say it’s not still around – it’s just not known to us as having been owned by a member.
Your theory about the cap on your brake bleeding kit is almost certainly correct, and it may well continue to leak, though I’ll stand corrected if any ‘Counties’ member has successfully used such a kit.
Assuming there’s no fault with the master cylinder or slave cylinders, I don’t see why the manual method of brake bleeding wouldn’t work (using a tube with a non-return valve attached to the bleed nipple). You’d probably use more brake fluid to do it, and you’d need two people, but on the positive side you’d end up flushing the whole system through with clean fluid. Even starting with a completely empty system you could still bleed the brakes in this manner.
Hello Paul,
Glad to hear you got it started, which I would say confirms it as having been converted to -ve earth. One of the advantages is that -ve earth cars rust less due to a property known as cathodic protection. A positively charged body, and salt on the roads in winter, are a pretty corrosive mixture!
As for the ammeter, its possible that it has simply been disconnected rather than reversed. It would be worth following the wires to it to see where they go if you can.
Hello Paul,
Have you done all the usual basic ignition tests – e.g. take off a plug lead and (holding it with a thick cloth or insulating gloves!) hold it near the block whilst turning the engine to see if you are getting a spark?
As far as the car being negative earth is concerned, it may have been converted from positive to negative earth – though most aren’t. Given that you’ve connected it the negative way around, and assuming that the ammeter had been reversed to accommodate a previous change, then you should see the voltage drop when you turn the ignition on. If it has not been converted (and therefore the ammeter not reversed) you would see the voltage go up (from a mid-point of zero) when you tun the ignition on.
Does the car have a modern radio? This is sometimes a telltale that a car has been converted from +ve to -ve earth.
Other than that, if you’re sure that the carburettor bowl has petrol (and that it is fresh fuel – it does degrade over time), and that you have a decent spark, then the only other possible issue is ignition timing.
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I would estimate that there are few, if any, commonalities between the two. There may be some Lucas parts that are common (I can’t think of any off the top of my head), and from the manufacturer’s point of view the merger between Austin and Morris into BMC didn’t take place until the very end of the ‘Counties’ era, some time after the design of the last ‘Counties’ vehicle.
Hello Mike,
The air filter is only supposed to have a limited amount of mesh in it – it isn’t stuffed full of it. The idea is that you dip the exposed part of the mesh in a bath of oil and wipe off the excess, the oil then catching impurities in the air.If your filter is in particularly poor condition, it might be that the club’s used spares representative Graham Potts may have a better one in our stock of used spares. However he won’t be able to get to most of these until the current lockdown conditions are relaxed.
Hello,
I’ll get you some photos of the rear lights on my Sixteen – hopefully tomorrow. That should explain all!
Pete S.
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