On my late 1939 TA the holes in the front valance are central on the curve and there are thick hard rubber spacers of about 3/4 inch diameter that provides the half round to match the valance curve and the flat surface for the number plate board. I suspect your valance is incorrectly drilled. I woul...

Hi Thanks to everyone that replied. Tom's assurance that only one spring type was used was useful and I can eliminate incorrect springs as the cause. I think I have found the solution to my problem. The angle between my pull cable and the choke lever was about 30 deg. Adjusting it to about 75 deg im...

My TA is fitted with an XPAG engine with what appears to be a fairly standard TC carb set up but the choke control is much too stiff. From the carb numbers they are probably TD period and have the slow running linked to the choke control rather than the TA/TC separate control. Other than that they s...