Four years have passed since the last entry and a fair bit has happened including moving twice in that time, but the one thing that has not changed is that I’m still working on the Wolseley Hornet Special. In the last entry I had just bought it and was going through the usual (for me) stuff of modifying the car so that I could drive it, usually by finding an extra 100 mm of legroom this and some roadworthy stuff was all done. But that was not the end of it.

The main problem was that the car seemed to be trying to kill me.

• Terribly vague steering
• Brakes pulled one way or the other
• Brakes had no bight
• Bump steered
• Didn’t like going straight
• Hated right hand bends

Lesser Problems

• Gearbox ratios were all wrong with a huge gap between 3rd and 4th and 1st only good for removing stumps.
• Oil leaked out of anything that had oil in it.
• Made a weird noise when braking, I thought it was the starter pinion hitting the ring gear (it wasn’t)

Things I liked

• The engine was smooth and it sounded great.
• The car looked good so I could forgive all the above.

So where are we today?

All the stuff above more or less was sorted except for the oil leaks and the weird noise and the handling wasn’t quite there yet…but better. So the thing I really liked was the engine, but it broke it’s crankshaft so I thought I’d start the blog back up and record that event and I may go over some of the work done to make the car drivable while I wait for the crank and rods to be made, which will be a while yet.