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For what it’s worth, Hayter called them Twikclips pt no 2304. A quick Google is not helpful but time spent with an old Kelley’s Directory or similar may be.

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Another question : how do u remove the cylinder type exhaust if the body is totally corroded. Also do the carb fuel pick tubes just pull off or do u have to prise the small clip ? Cheers for all the help

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I’ve been facing almost the same issue recently…

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The most important thing is that there is a gap of at least what is specified, otherwise when the engine is hot the valves may not close fully, so causing the valve to burn and reduce performance.
Obviously there is not much that can be done with too wide a gap, as the adjustment is to grind the end of the valve! I’m my limited experience the valve lift is quite high so performance is less affected Though if tuning for performance you will have to fit new valves.

One issue with over gapped clearance is that many small engines have a decompression feature that involves lifting a valve ( usually the exhaust) to aid starting. Consequently an over gapped valve may reduce or nullify that feature. It is important when checking clearances that both valves are “ off cam”, particularly where a decompressor, which may be a “bulge” in the cam, is concerned; gap the valve when it’s still “on cam” and you will end up with a wide gap and an engine that snatches or kick back when starting is attempted.
In the absence of engine specific information, a good rule of thumb is that both clearances should be checked when the piston is a quarter of an inch down the bore AFTER top dead centre.

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Thank you for your kind words, the displays were good fun my friend Anthony Brennan played a major part in the set up for Malvern as did many other contributors and most of all the people who travelled from far and wide with MG machines. Healthwise I am told I should make a full recovery but having so many tractors and parts would have been a major issue to anyone but me having to clear them and it was frustrating to see them all just sitting there when as we see daily there are dozens of young enthusiasts desperate to get hold of crawlers I have really enjoyed meeting up with many of them and supplying parts to bring more machines back to life.
With regard to the WR4 and WR8 machines, Ransomes developed both machines and produced them for market for some time but then for some reason they passed production and marketing over to Whitlock, Whitlock were the taken over and production was stopped. The Morish skimmers produced today were I think directly derived from the Ransomes machines presumably because Ransomes failed to take development further. When you look at the MG crawlers which were developed to make the dumpers ,loaders and skimmers in the early 1960’s, how sad that it took many years before other companies build similar machines which went on to supply the world, Bobcat skidsteers, Kubota Karrier dumpers being prime examples. It seems that so many British companies produced superb machines but then failed to develop them and capitalise on their potential, was it poor financing lack of market initiative or what ? In the 1980’s I bought one of the first Bobcat Skidsteer loaders in UK fitted with tracks to work on the peat at Kirkbride.

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Very good thank you.

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The clips are off Hayter Hayterettes from the mid sixties. Normally I would not worry so much and just use circlips instead, but in this case the ‘hub caps’ are secured by fitting over the clips.

Hayter stopped using this type of fixing and moved to nuts, when they moved to the single lever height adjustment in the early seventies.

I had considered using Starlock fixings, the ones that have a plastic cap moulded around them, thus negating the need for the clip and the hub cap. But am once again struggling to source items of the right size in black from the UK. That is unless I want 4000 of them, in reality I would like 20 or so.

Any help or thoughts appreciated!

Thanks,

Scott

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Really good calendar with interesting pictures from days gone by. Just a thought, would it be worth producing the calendar to sell in the shop. Well done Robert

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Images will help, but when you pull the chain, are you pulling against spring pressure ?
Sounds to be a similar set up to my Wanners. Cold and dark out there now but I’ll take an image or two tomorrow.

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Just downloaded the VHGMC 2021 calendar, a lovely, almost calming, professionally high standard presentation. My only concern in seeing it was that, to do it justice, I would deserve and need to be printed to an equally high standard. A good quality ink printer using anice heavy paper or card? Looks great on screen, congratulations to all involved in the work that went into putting it together.

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My archaeological dig around the old Trusty keeps revealing old relics, badges, unknown letters and numbers. Keeps me engaged when I can’t really get started on doing any clean-up or work on the the tractor.

Back to the day job today, horticultural work in glasshouses. Preparation for the salad and veg growing season ahead.

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All well here thanks, just trying to make all the available work, take up all the available time.

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Love it; shades of metal stitching a cracked cylinder block.

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Even I can see that this is not the best arrangement for a good spark!

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Following on with the question of Trusty hp over it’s life span, I’ve just picked up on your comment that the tractors would have first been used for ‘rowcrop’ cultivation? This would be light work, straight lines, level ground, minimum soil disturbance? What we’re the documented cultivation equipment, if known? Something like the cultivator you are repairing with your Trusty? And what is the history of crops being cultivated? This would mainly have been in the South of England? The London food belt of that time even? Its a very interesting social history factor, all these added layers of history that go with these many old farm machines!

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