Ted Deakin

Price reduced to £40.00.

Yes, I do have a Brand new one.

Hi, I am pretty sure I have a brand new kick down cable for your Autobox, I will have a look this afternoon to see if I do have one. Regards.

For sale, Ford Lucas headlamps approx 7 1/4 inch diameter, found in Father in laws garage not sure what they are for loads of numbers on them by Ford and Lucas. £40.00 and postage. Thanks Ted.

Hi, I am looking for a replacement boot light/lamp for an Escort MK2 Ghia. I have managed to break it whilst putting stuff in the boot (I know, cack handed). It has smashed the plastic lens and the bulb, I have got the remains of the bulb out, and have a new bulb, but now looking for the lens cap or a complete light assembly. Hope someone can help out. Thank you. Ted.

Hi all, Escort now completed, 12 months MOT, just put 12 months tax on it so as I can drive it around legally, tank emptied, flushed out with cheap thinners and a gallon of un-leaded petrol, carb removed stripped and cleaned out, same with fuel pump, all put together with inline filter and set up on a gas analyser, now running very sweet. Car has been valeted inside, and hand polished outside with polish and seal. Have been advised that auction is best route to gain it's proper value, even though one member on here offered £2000 as it was, without MOT. I would like to say thank you to the people that genuinely helped out with good suggestions etc-etc, but I doubt I will get it to auction this side of the year, so will keep in touch via here. Thanks. Ted.

Hello, Those are not my wheels, they are my friendly next door neighbour "Youth" Frank, who kindly lent them me while I have a good go at cleaning up the original wheels, in hind sight, I should have had something done with the wheels while the tyres where replaced, but I never thought until it was too late. The original wheels do have the chrome trim rings, the rings are in very good order, but there is surface corrosion where the old balance weights have sat, and the black Pizza pie slice shaped bits are so thin, you can see through the black, so I am going the whole hog, and try re-painting them and have bought some vinyl sticker type black bits for the highlights, if I make a mess of them, there is a local powder coating firm, that will put them right (approx. £50.00 per wheel !!??).. Next thing is to have a look under the tank for this pipe to drain the fuel out, would be nice for it to run smooth instead of stalling straight away. Ted.

Hello, I have taken some more pictures with this phone, but not sure how to get them on to the site, this stuff is still new to me, I still listen to a valve radio, that is my interest. Ted.

Hello, WELL, it passed !!, but the guy did take me through the car, and show me things that will need to be attended too in the near future. One thing was the boot floor, even though the car is Ziebarted, it is drying out and cracking on the very flat surfaces of the boot floor, he recommends that the floor and everything is stripped off, cleaned back to bare metal where there is surface rust forming, and re-seal the bottom of the car, and not to be tempted to just put a new coat on top of whats there, as it would be sealing in any surface rust and make it worse. There was also both front steering rack gaiters, not split or leaking, but very soft and spongy and will sometime in the future tear, so that is something to look at. Engine still runs like a single cylinder, need to drain out the fuel and start again, the air filter was off in the picture as the fuel pipe was leaking from around the crimp type hose clip holding the pipe into the carb, this pipe was quite cracked, so I replaced it, there is also another carb pipe I would like to change, it looks as though it is an overflow pipe, but I have not found the other end yet. I did get a new bonnet prop grommet, and it was off Ebay, pain in the back side to get in, but once I had warmed it up in a bit of hot water it went in, so that is back to as it was. It is my long 2 week shift on now, so will not be able to do much else, maybe give it a good clean on the inside, as it is untidy and dusty from standing, really want to get the engine run clean, also fitted a inline fuel filter with the new pipe on the carb, but it did not make it run better, but if the fuel is off, then I don't suppose it will. Is there any easy way of dropping the fuel out of the tank, did not want to take the tank out, but could try to syphon it out with thin washer pipe tube !!??. Thanks for all the help guy's. Still plugging away slowly. Ted.