two 50 lbs blocks of dry ice dumped in the deep end will drop ‘er a bit.As a kid I tried to ‘fog in’ our pool for my birthday party.Not much fog but mom was out of the pool for a couple of weeks.Redding, CA summer time air temp 110 to 115 degJust a thought…people in Las Vegas have coolers on their pools….

I was not happy with fat, modern-looking Chevette steering column. So I built a upper carrier and took the splined hub from the Chevette and built an adapter. Basically I cut a circle out of steel and bolted to the hub on one side and to the steering wheel on the other.So now I’m looking for an brass acorn nut for the shaft.

Pool at 106 degrees?   Bummer.  I lived in south Florida for about 6 years (Pine Island) and after a year, installed an in ground pool only to discover that in the summer when you really wanted to cool off, it was too darned hot to get in.  Tried running the solar panels at night hoping that they would radiate enough heat to cool it off.  No joy. …[Read more]

I like the look of the Forever sharp banjo wheel with the flaired rods and the oblong rings in thek middle. Not MG authentic but looks pretty cool.

We’ll definitely see you on Wednesday and Thursday.

here’s a start  I love my  banjo wheel –

Bump.

That’s some nice looking rubber you got Bill. Are they just for hill climb use?

Aha! Progress. Good on ya. Now rest the hand and come back to it tomorrow. You may see that you won’t need the extra washers.

Had a Hillclimb official stop and give the car a pre tech inspection tech inspection. I didn’t want to be turned away at the event for forgetting something. The car had some minor items to correct.(place covers on the battery cable ends, grind the upper corner of the kill switch plate into a radius and get a fire extinguisher with one with a metal…[Read more]

Hi Guys.Well 4 days without doing anything is enough. The idle vale has been changed out with no improvement to the gas dropping into the cylinders on shut off. Fuel pressure lowered from 5 pounds to 3.5 pounds.  No change, placed an extra washer under the needle vale in the float chamber. Again no change but noted that  the valve was not the orig…[Read more]

Something else to consider…

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It’s difficult to tell from the pictures, and this is going to be hard to describe in writing, but I think what we are seeing here is typical of hand built cars.

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The bumper and fenders move together on the suspension. What you want ideally is a bumper that is level and both fenders even, in relation to it. Neither issue is related to ride height.

To further clarify/confuse the issue here are some pics:The car is sitting slightly downhill on the driveway, no driver or passenger.Yes, it does look like the pass. side is lower in relation to the bumper.  I suppose that means that it is about right with only the driver aboard.  😕

Kall2015-06-15 23:04:56

Don’t think anyone has attempted. Just to know: the MG hub is a small spline shaft, certainly on some oddball British standard. The way to adapt it, I think, would be a hog-out and weld (or epoxy)-in method using whatever spline pipe you salvaged out of an original Chevette steering wheel.

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Would putting back one or two torsion bars raise the body height at rest or stiffen the suspension to resist body roll in hard turns?”Putting a couple of torsion bars back would do both.  But, it involves quite a bit of work.  You may want to experiment with “coil over shocks” which would allow you to raise the front and do a certain amount of l…[Read more]

As far as matching the original…a four inch cut in the VW front beam gets one very close to the original TD spec.

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The bodies from the various manufacturers do vary, but I’m not sure a narrowed beam would fit under my Duchess’ fenders. A two inch cut, maybe. But with a four inch cut, I suspect the VW shock towers would be hitting the fiberglass. Gonna crawl under there tonight and take a look.

PMOSSBERG2015-06-15 15:37:45

I agree that a narrowed front beam would put the wheels in a better position. There might be a slight widening of the turning circle because of reduced clearance between the tire and frame at full lock.I have not yet determined if the tire is rubbing on the inside of the fender or if it is rubbing on the outer edge of the fender when the wheel is…[Read more]