Fuel Cap

Back in an earlier post I commented that the fuel tank cap was not a proper Ariel one:

Fortunately I had an old one lying around which I had dismantled by drilling out the siezed centre screw. The female thread in the cam plate was just about usable:

All I needed was a new seal, cut from a sheet of neoprene and a new centre screw which I bought from Drags

I made a new 'stiff nut' using a 5/16" BSW nut, a hacksaw and a hammer:

All together and in place. Looks the part, though the centre screw is too domed: