The wheel fix didnt work and was doomed to failure right from the word go, The centre hub is of course machine at each end to accept the bearing, it has a shoulder which it reats agaianst to stop it going further in. this would have been fine if i has a lathe, unfortunately i dont. So i had to come up with a plan B. what started as taking a second set of wheel apart to see how the hub on them was made, resulted in the realisation that the hubs were totally different, Long story short, by mixing up habs and wheel halves i was able to come up with a wheel that had a different offset and had a narrow enough hub to work with the existing axle, this will allow the Mk1 machine to stay mobile while i play with Dads machine.
I also tweaked the Carb today so now it idles nicely at a speed below which the centrifugal; clutch wants to kick in, but it also revs well, the foot pedal sits an a totally different angle to the left one though, and this hampered my attempt at a hot lap, as my "F" ed up leg and back dont work at those angles, unfortunately the back won today and i had to retreat to the comfort of painkillers before i could see if there is a way to adjust the neutral resting position. My temp seat of a few bits of wood and a cushion probably didnt help LOL
