Worked late last evening to finally finish the gearbox. Looks to have full engagement of all the gears. All took a lot longer than I imagined. Keep lecturing the boys about the length of journey and rough roads on this journey from Peking to Paris..............it's a long long way! Jonathan Cobb called in in his AC Ace, a wonderful useable car. He suggested we consider putting a fuel bag in the tank. Probably very sensible, but now too late....... it's all put together with baffles in place.
Some discussion currently about length of splines on the Rudge Whitworth wheel centres. I'll speak to Peter Richards our wheel builder again today.
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One of the main reasons for my visit to the workshop at the weekend was that I had heard on the jungle drums that Oli Way had developed a revolutionary way of cooling an engine using super heated hot air. By placing the radiator in the engine bay behind the engine the stiflingly dry 40 degree air of the Gobi desert is heated further by the considerable heat being generated by the 8 ltr engine then blasted at the radiator. So far the idea would appear to be doomed to failure but here is the really clever part, by filling the cooling system with Champagne Oli has found that all the normal rules of physics are turned on their head and apparently the engine will cool perfectly.
When Oli has time on his return from the trip he is going to start work on a much larger scaled up cooling system working on the same principle to solve the World's problem of Global warming. Never has the sometimes fine file line between genius and nutter been further apart!!!!!
CJ
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