If you’re stuck you could get someone like Venhill to remanufacture one. Paul Burridge will no doubt be able to guide you in the right direction regarding fitting, he knows the manuals inside out 👍
They arrived today and I’m very happy with them – thanks again Paul.
Oh dear, that’s unfortunate. The AA didn’t do better when I used them last year. I’ll be interested to hear what you suggest as an improvement to the pulley, I remember hearing about a similar occurrence a few years back but that caused more damage IIRC.
Thanks Peter.
I’m pleased to report that American Paul has sent me two brackets with apparently minimal rust on, so that’s a great way forward. Thanks for your help.
Hope you went full American and linked a ‘bing, bing, bing’ alarm into it 😉
Email sent, we’ll see what comes back.
That’s great Paul, I can see four or five candidates there. I’ll email tomorrow. Thanks again 👍
Peter – they’re plain chassis black so that should hide a few minor sins.
That’s great Paul, they’re the two red ‘Lucas with screws’, I have new lights as they’re also used on several British cars of the same era (Lucas L692 & L467). If any of your contacts happen to have good plates then I would be interested. The visible part is the opposite side of what you can see in the photos so I should be able to reinforce one side and flatten the other side using epoxy as per your / Peter’s guidance. Thanks again 👍
Thanks Paul, I’ll take a photo later but for now I’ll explain a bit more. Imagine a thin pressing with complex curvature and a variety of holes which is generally wasted. The pressing is visible from outside the car. I know galvanising can add significant thickness and similarly hot metal / thermal spraying may be an option but wondered if there were any other alternatives. If the pressings weren’t visible then I would do exactly what you say. An alternative would be to make sections of the correct profile then plug them in to cover the whole face but this would take a large amount of time and skill – if there’s an easier option then that would be preferred. I know some people have converted their cars to the later lights but I like the ones it has!
