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You want 175 R16 tyres for the Somerset. Austone are a good choice as they don’t say ‘taxi’ or ‘cab’ in big letters on the sidewall. They used to be used on FX4/Fairway type London taxis. Extremely hard wearing and they hold the road better than crossplies, but at the expense of heavier steering at parking speed.
I’ve decided to keep my Hampshire on crossplies as I prefer how they look, and the steering is definitely lighter than my Somerset which is shod with taxi tyres.
No problem Johnny. Glad it all went well for you. So many people have problems bleeding these by pedal pumping (myself included) the pressure bleeder makes very light work of them.
It worked so well on the Austins I’m going to make an adaptor so we can use it on my mates Phase 1 Vanguard, which has a Lockheed master cylinder but similar problems with air getting trapped in the front brakes. Very very difficult to get a good pedal on it.
Yes that is all correct. This is one of the reasons these cars are a sod to bleed as it’s difficult to get all the air out of the front brakes.
I use a Sealey VS820 pressure bleeder. The supplied cap fits our Girling reservoirs but I recommend a bit of PTFE tape on the reservoir thread and also nice new DOT 4 fluid. Done two Somersets and a Hampshire with this system now and it’s a lot quicker and easier to purge the air than pedal pumping.
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