2 weeks to go…who’s going to be there and what are you bringing?

I’ll be there with the beast. Arriving Thursday.

Clutch issue has been resolved. It just needed persuasion from a giant pair of channel locks. Body panels are now being installed.😁

Well, we replaced the Toyota slave with a much longer Land Rover unit. Initial installation made it almost acceptable to get into gear.

So I took it off the stands and pushed it out into the sunlight. The first it’s seen since August.

Such a beautiful day, we drove to my son’s house.

The exhaust is much too low for my liking, but there is…[Read more]

Good news! Congratulations.

Jack, now would be the time to consider opening up the horizontal portion of your cowl above the pedal assembly. If you would ever need to get to your stop light switch or pedal bushings, whatever, it will beat laying on your back through the door opening working blind by feel. (Can you tell I’ve been there?)

Looking good though. Keep it up.

Welcome! She looks good. I wish you luck on the search for the shiny grille shell. I needed to replace mine back in ‘08(accident) and finally settled on a damaged shell from an original TD and modified my fenders to fit. I recall a year or two ago, there was a fellow carrying one around at Carlisle trying to sell it. Just be patient, one will t…[Read more]

Very good.

What you don’t see, does not matter.

Fired it up again today. Reset the timing. Bled the clutch again. No Air. Cannot get enough travel from the slave cylinder to fully disengage the clutch. I’m contemplating a hair brained scheme to extend the original clutch cable. Haven’t made up my mind yet. So close…

Jack, I never had to cut the hat. It was used as is. It simply bolted to the small flange on the rear cover. Drill your own holes.

I stand corrected…video works.

It’s Alive !!!

This is a 40 year old wire harness. Colors have faded. Red with blue stripe closely resembles red with green stripe. Luckily, in 1989, I had a local Ford dealer where I used to work copy the factory wiring schematic for the Pinto.

Working  from the component back to the ignition switch I was able to put the wires back where…[Read more]

Well, last week I had every intention of firing this mother up. It had other ideas. She would crank but not run. Thought maybe the wires were off 180*. Changed them. Maybe I was off one post. Changed them again. Nothing. Finally got tired of that and pulled the right side rocker cover. As I was turning it over by hand with the rocker cover and…[Read more]

Really looking forward to seeing this in person. Come on, Carlisle!