So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:15 am
So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
I thought it was not recommended to use the handle/ornament/flash for a bonnet lifting rope. It isn’t robust enough. It’s safer to have a rope that loops under the bonnet.
1969 1098cc Convertible “Xavier” which I have owned since 1989.
Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:15 am
So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
I thought it was not recommended to use the handle/ornament/flash for a bonnet lifting rope. It isn’t robust enough. It’s safer to have a rope that loops under the bonnet.
That's why it's string not rope, the weakest link, a mechanical fuse
Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:15 am
So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
I thought it was not recommended to use the handle/ornament/flash for a bonnet lifting rope. It isn’t robust enough. It’s safer to have a rope that loops under the bonnet.
That's why it's string not rope, the weakest link, a mechanical fuse
On your head be it!
1969 1098cc Convertible “Xavier” which I have owned since 1989.
Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:15 am
So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
Sounds a bit of a Heath Robinson arrangement - unless this is another leg-pull..........
Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:15 am
So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
Sounds a bit of a Heath Robinson arrangement - unless this is another leg-pull..........
It's a bonnet pull not a leg pull sorry it was a few days late in posting but it is still April
Bill_qaz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:15 am
So the piece of string attached mine running through the pulley block in garage roof and then to the garage door that lifts the bonnet when I open said garage door was missold to me at a morris minor auto bonnet lift it's in fact an ornament puĺler
Sounds a bit of a Heath Robinson arrangement - unless this is another leg-pull..........
It's a bonnet pull not a leg pull sorry it was a few days late in posting but it is still April
Oh dear, don't say we now have to endure an April Fool's Month now, along with all the rest of them!