Welcome to our Austin 7 Ruby restoration video where we take the Austin Seven for her first drive and visit the previous owner. We promised when we started the restoration of the Austin 7 that we would bring her back to the former keeper when we had her road legal. He was very happy to take the Ruby for a drive and give us his approval for what we have done so far.
The first long drive was always going to be a special occasion and we made the most of it to test out our semaphore indicators that we have bought flashing bulbs for. We have also found that the Austins gearbox is changing gear a lot easier than when we bought her up the road to our garage. The synchromesh on second and third gear seems to have improved by using it which surprised us but if there was some old oil sludging things up we will change the oil as soon as possible.
We have found that our Austin 7 Ruby has the usual problem of the dynamo not charging. We will have to attack this as an important job.
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2 окт 2024
