Absolutely!  See my new thread - Unethical?

Methinks this should be in a thread of its own, @Nick Jones? However, I'll double check the choke, though I tend to only use it on the warm up, and by the time I drive it's well off (and when time allows I double check on the carbs). Also, she's on HS6's, not Stromberg's.

I'm home now, and wanting a quiet evening in, I'm watching Channel 4's "Pile Up".   Cranfield University set up a fleet of remote controlled saloon cars, had them driven by uni.staff and ordinary punters down a runway, at 70mph to sub for a motorway, into an artic lorry "that had crossed the reservation."  No surprise, all vehicles were wiped out. None or the volunteers were told the crash would happen. IMHO, this is unethical.   Volunteers MUST  be told what an experiment will involve - these were not.   Watch it on 'All4'.  See what you think. John

This….. Strombergs have a summer and winter setting for the choke valve. The summer one limits it’s travel. Does it definitely spit back out of both carbs or could it just be one?  Just wondering if the link tube between the two carbs is blocked/ kinked? Edit: it occurs to me that as an early car it may have the early carbs with the rather woeful “piston-lift” choke. This only really gives any additional enrichment while cranking and at low idle.

Alec, I have the 1968 'Revised'edition of Smith.  No mention of a TTra manifold. In which chapter is it in the '62? John

Damn straight! Nothing smart about smart motorways.

If it’s got to go. That’s the best place, better than a 4 lane smart motorway with no hard shoulder !!  

Not a huge amount of progress recently but this is down to the car doing what I want it to.  I've installed an electric fuel pump in the boot (powered by the speeduino and with inertia switch). Blanking plate for mech fuel pump made and installed too. I've done a good bit of driving, including a trip to Nottingham and back with the new grp hardtop on. Travelled there during the hottest part of the day with no temperature issues, at least not in the engine bay. Driver was a different matter  I set off back home in a torrential downpour and only had a few drips from the drivers side window so I'm calling that a win! The oil pressure would dip under braking at the end of the outward journey. I think this is hot oil, and low oil level due to the consumption habit.  I've ordered some parts to make the blanking plate into a second breather. The improved breather should help reduce oil consumption, and sump baffle should help prevent oil surge.  I've the start of one I'm the garage, but the project stalled.  Hopefully I'll get that moving again! The oil cooler is tempting me from it's box in the garage, but there are several pipedreams which should come first!

The bearing that got you home  .  

Ill look for that, Pete, thank you! But as King Claudius says in Hamlet, "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!"   As I turned into my gate at home, a trailer wheel fell off!  Looks like the outer bearing broke up.  So "complete change of wheel bearings" must be on the job list!  Along with suspendion investigation. But just now, it's G&T time, with cat on knee! John