I need some help

[Rosebud and Bill]

Hi,

 

My name is Bill Bastian, I’m brand new here and trying to learn how to use this site.  I am presently restoring a FiberFab 1952 MGTD Replica.  I wanted to post pictures of the car as it was when I purchased it in Nov. 2013, then later when I have finished it, hopefully next month June 2014.  How do I upload pictures, I can’t find any place to upload.

 

I am in Southern California, and would love to hear from any other members in the region.

 

Thank you for any help you can give the “New Guy”.

 

Bill

Bad Bill

[Royal]

Bill, welcome. This site has a lot of help and we all are willing to give advice.   I would recommend spending some time exploring the search function. The icon that looks like a tree is the one that lets you upload pics. When you figure that out, don’t forget to register.
Not to sound trite but, the more questions you ask, the more answers you’ll get.

[Montie Henderson]

Bill, for me the tree icon does not work to post my pictures anymore.  I’m not sure why?? same goes for these emoticons, I have to right click-copy and then right click-paste on the new page.  That’s the only way I can get pictures on here now.  Montie.. Oh and welcome to the forum..

[billnparts]

Welcome!

Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"

[secretagentcat]

Hey Bill

 

Good to hear from a fellow member in So-Cal.  I live in the Huntington Beach area, how about you?  I drive a Classic Roadsters LTD. MG TD Grand Duchess (Eliza Jane).  She’s a blast to drive and a real attention grabber.

 

I’m Currently replacing the entire wire harness and upgrading some cosmetic components.  I hope to be back causing some serious MAHEM on our streets in the near future.  I like to think of Eliza Jane as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s evil sister.

 

Talk with you soon.

[edward ericson]

OK. Bill. 

The process for uploading pics here is a little wonky and, as you’ve seen, it doesn’t seem always to work for everyone. But if you have a full sized or notebook computer running recent Mac or Windows OS, and a Chrome browser, or Safari, or Firefox or Internet Explorer, it should work.

You hit the “Post Reply” button at the top left of the thread and then click the tree icon in the little panel above the  box. That brings up a box that looks something like this:

If you hit the button marked “choose file” you’ll get another window, and this will show stuff that is on your computer, like this:

Navigate to the image you want–and it has to be less than 500kb, I think–click on that (or highlight it and press the button marked “open”), then hit the “upload” button on the original box. It will take a few seconds to upload. Then the pic will show up in the right hand pane of the box marked “preview” above (the one with gibberish in it. I don’t know why it defaults to gibberish text when there is no photo to show). If you hit “OK” the photo should now show up in your post, right where your cursor was.

If it doesn’t, either the file size was too big or some voodoo is afoot. 

I hope this helps & sorry if it doesn’t. People on this forum are of various degrees of computer savvy & so more and better help will show up soon if this doesn’t get it.

[gordon pollard]

Hi guy’s I am also new and have just purchased FF Ford pinto based car. I have an issue with the rear end. I have watched the assy video on the MG Magic site and cannot understand my issue. The right had wheel/offside sits out aprox 1.5/2 inch more that the left side. Tire and wheel are the same size, no spacer I don’t get it??? Help

Gordon

[secretagentcat]

Welcome Gordon

 

Sorry I can’t help you with your project, my kit is VW based.  I just wanted to welcome you to the club.  Don’t worry, you should have an answer real soon.  The members here are real smart and helpful.

 

Good Luck!

[billnparts]

Install an adjustable panhard rod. With that you can adjust the car side to side. It will also make the car handle a lot better.

Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"

[Bill Gould]

Always great to have another Bill join us. You should have plenty of nice weather to enjoy your new ride, although I suspect there will be some days in Southern California — like here in Houston — that look great but have smog levels too high for comfort or health. Still, neither of us has to deal with snow and ice, like so many of our fellow TDr drivers do. Anyway, welcome!

1981 Lafer TI
1600 cc Type 1 engine

[Melvin Collins]

This is for Flash,

You may have a centered pinion yoke, sometimes ? one axle side is longer than the other. My 8 inch is that way so when it was narrowed I asked for centered pinion resulting in one axle longer than the other.

I’ll post a photo on tommietd later

Melvin

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