Sure wish they made a easy hook up tow bar for my Ford based auto.   Oh well still lookin for a trailer.

Ditto – Best aftermarket investment I made for my car.

Well said Ed – A five minute hook up at most

“My thinking is it won’t hurt metal lines and rubber hoses are OLD, so you’ve replaced them already with neoprene or whatever new fuel lines are made from.”

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My thinking is it won’t hurt metal lines and rubber hoses are OLD, so you’ve replaced them already with neoprene or whatever new fuel lines are made from.Right? ‘Cause it costs like $10 and takes a half hour. Right?And I don’t know from fiberglass fuel tanks. Is that even legal? But whatever your tank is made out of, I think there are several…[Read more]

Respectfully to VW guys: our cars are their own trailers. Get a $80 tow bar and move on. What are you trying to save? tires?

Hey ED your bottom line should say Don’t worry be happy 🙂

Ed, did you notice that you can add stations if you know of any near you?  What bothers me most about ethanol is what I have seen it do to rubber hoses (like the fuel line hoses).  I don’t think that i would put it in a fiberglass fuel tank either based upon experience.  In other words, my concern is not so much engine life as these other co…[Read more]

Roger that, Smitty. I’d run it too, if available.

Buzz, that’s spectacular. All the old T series people say redoing the rotted wood is THE major PIA with most of the “barn finds” and other old examples advertised. Looks like you’ve got it mostly licked. Hat’s off.BTW yesterday, on the way home from a funeral, I spotted a ’53 TD on the Merritt Parkway in Hamden. Cream fenders and green (yeah,…[Read more]

Yeh ED your probably right. I like to use pure gas because I get better mileage and it stores a little longer.

Top cylinder lubrication in an L-4 engine is a different thing than in a flat 4 like ours. With an XPAG engine like the MG TD had, all the cam oil has to pump up and trickle down. The engine was crude and the zddp probably made up for occasional starvation. Type 1 VW engines have their cam & lifters in the bottom of the case, effectively in an oil…[Read more]

I checked that pure gas list. Nothing near me around Balto–looks like mostly Eastern Shore.Still. I think y’all E-10 worriers are worrying a bit too much. We’re near a decade past the MTBE era now & yet to see huge problems with old air cooled engines–other than the normal grenading you always see when they punch Type 1’s out over 2.2 liters and…[Read more]

There is a station about a mile from me that sells only pure gas…87 or 98 octane. I knew about them because there are a lot of dune buggys that go there for their gas and I started going there with the Ghia. Most of the stations locally sell there gas with the note “may contain up to 10% ethanol.” On the corner about 1/4 mile there is a Shell…[Read more]

Thx guys.. good info

A flat tappet motor needs ZDDP oil. Many companies make it. I wonder who Hemmings gets their’s from? They don’t make it themselve’s. A good ZDDP oil designed for flat tappet engine’s will work. I did notice that after I changed my oil for the first time , the engine seemed to run much smoother. The prior owner was using standard 40 weight oil.

     It seems that I sleep much better with my head in the sand.  You guys have me worried (again). 

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I use BRAD PENN OIL ZDDP. The Green oil

The hardest part was finding the correct angles and mesurements for all the wood.Plenty of pics on the net of rebuilding a “TUB” but no dimentions.I did finally come across someone that did post this needed info with his pics.

I have most of the wood in place,Have to fit and secure two pieces for the rear(hopfully today)then it’s sanding time to…[Read more]

To think that once, in the early 80’s, I was considered a cumpeter guru?  Today I have no clue why or how these things work.  I guess you do have to start from the home page.  Thanks.