My A40 has always had mirrors fitted to the wings - as was the normal practice in the 1950s & 1960s. If the mirrors are flat glass then they do only give a very limited field of view. They need to be the readily available convex type to give an adequate field of view - as I found when I erroneously ...

I agree - the presenter was affable enough but his clear lack of mechanical sympathy set my teeth on edge quite a bit! Hammering and levering with a screwdriver to unstick the valves is not good practice, and starting an engine which has sat for 40 years without changing the oil first is, to my mind...

And despite the presenter's statements to the contrary, I'm sure that the great difficulty he had in getting the engine started was because the ignition timing was too far advanced. Backfiring through the carb - of which there was plenty - is evidence of this.

To be fair to Herridge & Sons their website did note that the book wouldn't be signed, despite the flyer saying it would. I hadn't realised the sad news that explains this and I guess the flyer was printed before Clausager passed away. I've just received my copy of the book and it is excellent - a f...

And DVLA still insist that you "tax" the car each year - it's just that the cost of doing so is £0. I'm clearly not complaining, but you'd think DVLA could set up something like the SORN system, so you can make a single declaration that your historic vehicle is on the road and thus avoid the bureacr...

Just waiting for the log book as I lost the original so I can tax it or at least go through the motions to get her legal. All the best to all. Dave. If it's more than 40 years old, you won't need to pay anything to tax it, so long as the log book shows it's registered as an "Historic Vehicle". I fo...

I am indeed a member - rejoined recently and got my old number 189 back.
I'm logged into the Forums but only seem to have access to the Public one. The options i see at the top are: A40 Farina Club/Forums/Public Forum.
How do I get access to the Member forum?

I'm new to this Forum and realise I've wrongly posted a couple of car related technical queries in the wrong section: "Forum Problems Support", which I realise now is for questions about the workings of the Forum. However, I can't see a section appropriate for car related technical queries - what am...

Ahh thanks, but the problem I have is not with the pilot light bulbs themselves - these work fine when supplied with power independently. The problem is that the wiring loom connections from the flasher unit do not supply power to these bulbs consistently when the flashers are operating. I've worked...

A bit more research has turned up a schematic of the innards of the FL5 flasher unit. It appears that this has two sets on contacts on bimetal strips, arranged around a steel core - one to flash the outside direction indicators, the second to flash the dashboard warning lights. So it might be that t...