Good evening Dennis.  I live in NE Ohio and my FF TD is in NW Ohio with almost two hours separating us!  Regarding your question about the gas cap seal – I think I did to allow air to pass.  I’m going to bring the car home this weekend if the weather is good. We had snow on the ground this am and it is supposed to hit 80 Thursday – I love livi…[Read more]

thank you Gregg and yes it is a life long project. i am only worrrrrrking on the tdr for 16 years and my bgt for only 22.  did you puncture the rubber bladder also ?   i had “finished’ my tdr , until feral cats got in my shed and destroyed the car.

If it’s a VW tank, any foreign auto store will carry a VW cap for whatever year you have.  Also Amazon and the huge number of VW on-line businesses. Then, there is always MG Magic which has all kind of parts for MG kit cars.

Hi DENNIS, I put a new tank in last year and had the neck cut down as far as possible. Of course, the vent tube is eliminated. The VW’s cap is unvented, of course. I followed my shops advice and drilled a very small hole (1/8”) in the top of the gas cap so air can bypass the seal and I also leave the tank about three or 4 inches low.  (I alwa…[Read more]

OK so: I’m planning on handing out cruise directions via text or email so you can just hit the link on your phone and open the turn-by-turn navigation. This will require the (free) Google Maps app, which I suppose many of you already have and which I downloaded for the first time onto my iphone a couple weeks ago. Seems to work fine.

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Very close to perfect…and…Good enough for who it’s for…Words to live by.

“very close to perfect”….  words of encouragement for when I get done with this project!