The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

Bought a ‘new to me’ set of bellows, and connected it to my FLAPS!
(In the closed position).
See what the difference is…

 

How have you adjusted them?

 

Discovered why the handbrake had stopped working while on holiday...a horseshoe clip had come off and allowed the handbrake bar to fall off its pin.
Put a new one on... they are strange little things ....found the remains of the old one in the drum... now wafer thin.

 

Tell me more. Sounds like something I should know. I followed a guide by attaching to the rod cold, then attaching bracket to the block, giving me around about 1 cm gap, between bottom of bellows and top of the place on the bracket where they sit. Then pulling the bellows down into the bracket and fixing with the bolt.
Is that right?

 

Slacken the thermostat bracket a bit, screw on the stat (check the straight-sided bush at the bottom is correctly aligned for fitting in the bracket), then shove the whole lot up firmly so the flaps are fully open. Pull the bracket down so that it touches the top of the stat. That’s your stat in the fully expanded position, with the flaps open: the important bit. Tighten the bracket nut. Now pull the stat down and bolt it to the bottom of the bracket. The flaps will partially/fully shut.

That’s it. Should have a bit of a gap at the top of the stat, until the engine warms up. Then the stat expands until it hits the top of the bracket.

 

Tell me more. Sounds like something I should know. I followed a guide by attaching to the rod cold, then attaching bracket to the block, giving me around about 1 cm gap, between bottom of bellows and top of the place on the bracket where they sit. Then pulling the bellows down into the bracket and fixing with the bolt.
Is that right?

Just got back in from a ‘test drive’.
The thermostat is open fully to the top of the bracket. When cold, the thermostat is fully compressed.

 

Is the rod as far up as it can be?

 

That’ll stop you smoking in bed …

 

Did I just hear of a washing machine fire in the new forest....

 

Four houses in Fordingbridge demolished in exposion, apparently. More news as it happens...

 

Good point. I was also wondering.. screw the stat on tight, or a turn or two loose?

 

Loosen the bracket and shove the rod right up

 

Righto.

 

just won the bidding for these beauties....happy days, thanks for the pointer Mark and others

 

Bargain!

 

If your still lioking we got a set from Schofield at Tatton they might have more..

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Do you make the flap brackets for the late type 4 hangers?

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The current material prices and the cost of laser cutting doesn’t really make it worth my while .. I will see what I have .. but I’m sure I can sort something if your not in too much rush .. send me a pm