Thanks Terry,
Just come in from the shed, so will have another go at the brakes tomorrow. What you say makes sense and I have had a refresher course on how the assembly goes together this evening as when my assistant was doing the wheel nuts back up, one of the studs snapped off
. Not really his fault as the studs are pretty ordinary. Looks like several (including the one that snapped) have been cross threaded before. They were hard to get on straight and the one that Mat snapped broke when it was only half done up.
Pulled the hub off the old Gnome subframe to pinch a stud and took note of things as I did it. I suspected (and was right) that the Gnome would have short studs whereas CB has long ones. Still works though with plenty of thread on the nut IMO. Would just make it very hard to line wheel up if you had 4 of them as the end of the stud finishes about flush with the face of the mag. Any problems with this?
After (not) adjusting brakes today, thought they would need a test run anyway
so grabbed a kid and headed out 20k or so up the road. Found some nice quiet gravel roads and had some fun scaring said kid
. Misses a bit when cold (and even lukewarm) even with the choke, but on my way back into town I took it up the road to the lookout which is pretty steep and my benchmark for testing out cars after playing with them (when I had my 253 Holden which I used to service myself I knew it was right if it could pull all the way up in 4th gear - only took a slight problem to make it struggle). Well, CB didn't exactly go up in 4th gear, but it went very smoothly in 2nd with short bursts of 3rd, so I was happy with that - no missing etc that I got when it was cold.
The gravel road highlighted another job I need to do before going anywhere with it. The tray rattles very badly on a rough road. It's a tipper which only has a pin holding one side of the front down at present, so will go looking for a couple of catches tomorrow that will actually pull it down tight to the body.
Newie
PS. Thanks for changing the thread title - I had thought it would need to be improved on before we go public