Pembleton mkII - Tin Tub
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Ambleton said:
Can confirm I need lumbar support/back cushions. 
Sat in the car in the garage or driveway the seats were quite comfy. After an hour or so smashing around the country lanes my back is now in tatters
There's also an annoying flat spot between 3500 and 4500 rpm - right in the cruising zone.
Additionally, I'm going to need to make some screens. I did battle with a few wasps/bees/flies yesterday and can confirm that one t
tting you in the face/forehead at speed hurts....And finally - I need to order some DynaBeads to balance up the front wheels at speed.
Having said all that. I had an absolute blast.
Edited by Ambleton on Monday 4th September 10:11
Should probably update this thread.
Didn't get a whole load of running done towards the end of the summer but got some done.
Made some fly screens from some brass and perspex sheet, which help a lot with wind abuse and (imo) look better than brooklands screens (they're bigger too)
I also got my bottled catches fitted. As can be seen in this image...
And this image (not mine, I don't like the filter)
Had a few minor teething problems but getting there.
Also got one other issue, which is really a minor, but at the same time a major.
I went to a lot of time and expense to fit a rear wire wheel. Bought a brand new wheel, had it powdercoated the same as the fronts, modified the rear suspension so the offset was the same and made the bodywork to expose it... Now the rub...
When pushing on you can feel it flexing and loading up like a spring, then when it gets unsettled it shimmies about, not confidence inspiring at all.
Maybe at some point next year (or the year after - once the A35 is done - ha) I'll look at changing it to a larger steel wheel with a wider, lower profile tyre, possibly a 16" van steel or something.
Didn't get a whole load of running done towards the end of the summer but got some done.
Made some fly screens from some brass and perspex sheet, which help a lot with wind abuse and (imo) look better than brooklands screens (they're bigger too)
I also got my bottled catches fitted. As can be seen in this image...
And this image (not mine, I don't like the filter)
Had a few minor teething problems but getting there.
Also got one other issue, which is really a minor, but at the same time a major.
I went to a lot of time and expense to fit a rear wire wheel. Bought a brand new wheel, had it powdercoated the same as the fronts, modified the rear suspension so the offset was the same and made the bodywork to expose it... Now the rub...
When pushing on you can feel it flexing and loading up like a spring, then when it gets unsettled it shimmies about, not confidence inspiring at all.
Maybe at some point next year (or the year after - once the A35 is done - ha) I'll look at changing it to a larger steel wheel with a wider, lower profile tyre, possibly a 16" van steel or something.
Edited by Ambleton on Tuesday 12th December 22:25
Popped down to the NYD classic/vintage car show in stony Stratford today.
Was good to blow the cobwebs away.
Lots of seriously rare and expensive metal on show! Was so packed I was relegated to a little side street but that's fine, I was in some good company as there was a stag, an interceptor and a cobra on the same street.
(There was a Bugatti T35, Amilcars, GN, Lagondas, Bentley's and rolls, Humber's, Talbot's, Aston's etc) the T35 rolled in on this bad boy...
This peel was fun.
1902 Gladiator
1898 Leon Bollee
Was good to blow the cobwebs away.
Lots of seriously rare and expensive metal on show! Was so packed I was relegated to a little side street but that's fine, I was in some good company as there was a stag, an interceptor and a cobra on the same street.
(There was a Bugatti T35, Amilcars, GN, Lagondas, Bentley's and rolls, Humber's, Talbot's, Aston's etc) the T35 rolled in on this bad boy...
This peel was fun.
1902 Gladiator
1898 Leon Bollee
Edited by Ambleton on Monday 1st January 12:59
Seems to be behaving quite well at the moment... Looking forward to the summer and nicer weather. Popped along to Galosine Juice for a coffee and cake, loitered around the yard a bit then carried on to a nice little pub in a nearby village for a Sunday roast.
One of my wife's favourite past times (in the summer) is me chauffering her between country pubs in the summer as she tries to sample as many ciders as possible
Happy days, and good times to come!
One of my wife's favourite past times (in the summer) is me chauffering her between country pubs in the summer as she tries to sample as many ciders as possible
Happy days, and good times to come!
Edited by Ambleton on Sunday 28th January 15:59
Gearbox oil changed, bit more carb and ignition fine tuning. Getting there!
Still got a few more jobs to do, including making back rests and a cockpit cover. One thing I have done though (that's been bothering me for a while) is I have fitted a choke lever on the dash. This now means I can actually start the damn thing without a tonne of hassle
Still got a few more jobs to do, including making back rests and a cockpit cover. One thing I have done though (that's been bothering me for a while) is I have fitted a choke lever on the dash. This now means I can actually start the damn thing without a tonne of hassle
Edited by Ambleton on Monday 15th April 07:49
Played around a little more with carburetion and ignition.
Changed the advance curve, better.
Changed the main jet up a size, better.
Raised the needle up a notch, even better!
I think I'm getting very close now. It's driving tonnes better, more eager, pulls better throughout the range and no flat spots and keen to spin up.
I'm a happy bunny.
Yesterday I also got round to making some proper seat back cushions, boy do they make a difference. Finally feels like I have some decent lumbar support and whilst they're not mega deep and squishy, they are very comfy. Wife supplied the sewing skills - I did everything else
Got a few more little things on my list, biggest of which is to make a tonneau cover. Everything else is relatively small fry.
Changed the advance curve, better.
Changed the main jet up a size, better.
Raised the needle up a notch, even better!
I think I'm getting very close now. It's driving tonnes better, more eager, pulls better throughout the range and no flat spots and keen to spin up.
I'm a happy bunny.
Yesterday I also got round to making some proper seat back cushions, boy do they make a difference. Finally feels like I have some decent lumbar support and whilst they're not mega deep and squishy, they are very comfy. Wife supplied the sewing skills - I did everything else
Got a few more little things on my list, biggest of which is to make a tonneau cover. Everything else is relatively small fry.
Next on the "to do" list is a tonneau cover. This will mean I can actually use the car on trips further afield or overnighters.
I'm doing it in a heavy duty synthetic plastic backed canvas type material, with a centre zip (to allow passenger side only to be covered over if I'm caught out in the rain) and lift-the-dot fasteners.
First job was to cut it very roughly oversize and get the zip in and the flap & poppers to cover the zip over.
From the underside:
Next was to fit the lift-the-dot "knobs" to the bodywork. Some new holes, some "existing" holes where I drilled out a rivet.
I pulled the fabric taught and marked where I wanted the keep plates and fitted them one at a time running outwards from the centre front, then back. IE front centre, rear centre, front under screen, rear shoulder location etc.
Where there's two layers over a stud, I used a large eyelet in the lower peice, with the top peice over the top to secure. You can get double height lift-the-dot studs but they look a bit weird imo.
Next job is to mark out the perimeter, trim and hem.
I'm doing it in a heavy duty synthetic plastic backed canvas type material, with a centre zip (to allow passenger side only to be covered over if I'm caught out in the rain) and lift-the-dot fasteners.
First job was to cut it very roughly oversize and get the zip in and the flap & poppers to cover the zip over.
From the underside:
Next was to fit the lift-the-dot "knobs" to the bodywork. Some new holes, some "existing" holes where I drilled out a rivet.
I pulled the fabric taught and marked where I wanted the keep plates and fitted them one at a time running outwards from the centre front, then back. IE front centre, rear centre, front under screen, rear shoulder location etc.
Where there's two layers over a stud, I used a large eyelet in the lower peice, with the top peice over the top to secure. You can get double height lift-the-dot studs but they look a bit weird imo.
Next job is to mark out the perimeter, trim and hem.
Done. It ain't perfect. But for a home made effort I'm very pleased with it. Was tricky going round the aero screens as they're so close to the edge and the fabric didn't really like being folded and hemmed around curves as there's virtually no flex in it. Contact adhesive made life a lot easier as I could glue everything exactly as I wanted it and then sew through.
Edited by Ambleton on Sunday 28th April 21:14
Toot toot. Spring is in the air!
Eagle eyed amongst you will notice the latest addition is a little deflector between the two aero screens. The gap between them meant that there was a beautiful channel of air directed up and over the bonnet, up the scuttle and perfectly blasted into my face. This little centre piece fires it up and over my noggin.
Eagle eyed amongst you will notice the latest addition is a little deflector between the two aero screens. The gap between them meant that there was a beautiful channel of air directed up and over the bonnet, up the scuttle and perfectly blasted into my face. This little centre piece fires it up and over my noggin.
Edited by Ambleton on Sunday 5th May 08:33
manmaths said:
Great work on the screens! Love the brass
Thanks. I did plan on adding a load of brass design touches in the bodywork when I started the build but that soon got sidelined as a frivolity.I still have a large sheet of brass that I need to work out what to do with it.
I'm thinking about removing the black edging strip from the bottom of the aero screens as it's quite an obvious "border" and I think the centre one looks cleaner with no bottom edging.
Something to think about anyway....
Edited by Ambleton on Tuesday 14th May 22:42
I've had a few people ask me about the connection with the rabbit emblem on the bonnet and I'm not sure I've covered it here before.
When I was a kid my first "proper" pet (excluding goldfish) was a pet rabbit. She was a french lop called Pogo. My wife has always had pet rabbits too, whilst mine was an outdoor rabbit, hers have always been house rabbits. When I married her she accepted that building/restoring cars was my vice, and I accepted that small indoor fluffies was hers.
Since we've been in our house we've had 3 rehome guinea pigs and two rehome house rabbits. Rabbits are underappreciated pets in my opinion. They're more like indoor cats I think, they have real personalities and affection, but they also get "the zoomies" like dogs do.
Our current pet rabbit (Rupert) is part lionhead and is a golden colour, he's fairly majestic but he can be a bit of a dhead when it comes to destroying furniture and you have to be very aware of any cables. He'll go through any flex in a single snip.
As a result of this I always knew I wanted a rabbit bonnet emblem, as a little nod to my OH. It was just a matter of rummaging through antique/vintagey type places and charity shops to eventually find a little brass one that was just right, it took a while because it needed to be the right size and stance (and brass). Anyone who's had a pet rabbit will be familiar with this pose, they also do a "loaf" pretty convincingly too.
I believe this one came with three or four other little brass trinkets from a charity shop for about a fiver. The others went straight back. I drilled and tapped two holes in the bottom and fit M5 studs with loctite. Cleaned, polished and lacquered.
Here he is sat on the sofa observing his kingdom.
The same stance as the brass ornament (he probably spends 20% of his entire life in this pose)
Think I'm pretty much done on the Pembleton for the moment so unless I'm driving it I'll probably be over on the A35 thread - although there's very little progress to show there as I'm just doing lots of stty welding jobs. Welding up holes, gaps, trimming flanges, welding seams, capping open bits, rebuilding returns etc.
When I was a kid my first "proper" pet (excluding goldfish) was a pet rabbit. She was a french lop called Pogo. My wife has always had pet rabbits too, whilst mine was an outdoor rabbit, hers have always been house rabbits. When I married her she accepted that building/restoring cars was my vice, and I accepted that small indoor fluffies was hers.
Since we've been in our house we've had 3 rehome guinea pigs and two rehome house rabbits. Rabbits are underappreciated pets in my opinion. They're more like indoor cats I think, they have real personalities and affection, but they also get "the zoomies" like dogs do.
Our current pet rabbit (Rupert) is part lionhead and is a golden colour, he's fairly majestic but he can be a bit of a d
head when it comes to destroying furniture and you have to be very aware of any cables. He'll go through any flex in a single snip.As a result of this I always knew I wanted a rabbit bonnet emblem, as a little nod to my OH. It was just a matter of rummaging through antique/vintagey type places and charity shops to eventually find a little brass one that was just right, it took a while because it needed to be the right size and stance (and brass). Anyone who's had a pet rabbit will be familiar with this pose, they also do a "loaf" pretty convincingly too.
I believe this one came with three or four other little brass trinkets from a charity shop for about a fiver. The others went straight back. I drilled and tapped two holes in the bottom and fit M5 studs with loctite. Cleaned, polished and lacquered.
Here he is sat on the sofa observing his kingdom.
The same stance as the brass ornament (he probably spends 20% of his entire life in this pose)
Think I'm pretty much done on the Pembleton for the moment so unless I'm driving it I'll probably be over on the A35 thread - although there's very little progress to show there as I'm just doing lots of s
tty welding jobs. Welding up holes, gaps, trimming flanges, welding seams, capping open bits, rebuilding returns etc.EmBe said:
I've always assumed that the rabbit was a Pembleton thing, I didn't realise it was your own addition.
Lovely work on this car, thanks for sharing the process. I'm quite tempted by a T24 now.....
There's not much "standard" pembleton in this build tbh, not that there's really such a thing as a standard pembleton. Lovely work on this car, thanks for sharing the process. I'm quite tempted by a T24 now.....
It's 25years of the Pembleton motor company this year and they're having a big bash at Prescott towards the end of summer. There'll be loads of Pembletons there if you're genuinely interested.
EmBe said:
Ambleton said:
It's 25years of the Pembleton motor company this year and they're having a big bash at Prescott towards the end of summer. There'll be loads of Pembletons there if you're genuinely interested.
I am. I may be selling the Cayman shortly and it should provide a large chunk of what I'd need to get into a T24. I like the idea of a 'modern' cycle car, and it would be ideal for trips up into the Dales, where we live.I'll see if I can drag the family down to Gloucestershire for the meet up later in the year.
Details of the even are on the PAG forum and the PMC website
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