My mate bought a restored Austin-Healey Sprite Mk IV in Hungary and we will fly down to Budapest on Friday morning to get the car and drive it back home.
Should be some good fun driving from Hungary through Austria (visiting an old friend of ours) then Germany and Luxemburg
So far the weather seems to be good and there shouldn't be a problem to find enjoyable roads
Before he bought the car we went down to check it over from A to Z, that was 3 month ago with to body work just finished.
Now the car has done 1500 km and all the small problem seem to be sorted except for an oil leak fom the gearbox (design fault).
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Does look tidy, so its a k-Series engine conversion next? You can even BUY a kit for that
Well for the Midget anyway!
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we had the problem that the gearbox lost its oil really fast through the oldfashioned scroll seal at the front of the box ... and the straight cut first gear was VERY noisy.
So we decided to take the box out during winter and fix the issues ... new first gear and modified front plate with seal.
Everything back in the car ..... but the day after we have about half of the gearbox oil on the floor
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