Welcome, John.

Very pretty car. Love the color scheme.

Don’t know where you’re from, but the big meet at Carlisle is coming up May 14-15. If you can make it we’d love to see it.

Originally these were not painted. It’s gel coat.I painted mine in ignorance. The gel coat could probably have been brought back to life.

There is a thread or two in the forums.

Welcome…Enjoy!

Check the connections before replacing the switch. Grounds are gremlins on TDrs.

Also make sure the car is actually shifted into reverse. When I was putting together my Spyder the backup light gave me a heart attack when it wouldn’t work despite my shifting it into reverse to test. I checked the light, the wires, connections and even the switch…[Read more]

Same hotel. Probably no banquet again this year cuz it’s on me and I have not had the energy to do what I’m supposed to do. Will advise.

Al, that usually is covered by the Speedster group. Once they negotiate the dates and rooms they will post. Most likely we’ll be back at the Marriott in Mechanicsburg.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Don’t forget to register as a member of the Speedsters Owners.

Beats me. Im guessing the bolt worked loose causing stress on the non threaded portion.  I don’t know if the bolt was torqued properly by the previous TD owner, or Chevette owner for that matter.

What feeds the hot-ignition side of your fuse box?

(By memory; grain of salt) my car has battery + running to the big starter lug, Battery – bolted to the frame and feeding a grounding buss under the dash. Fat red 10g + wire from battery to the key switch at 30, then two wires that test + go from that. The key-on + wire goes to the fuse box to…[Read more]

Weird that it broke. Why would a pulley bolt break while just driving?

Update on broken pulley bolt.  Was able to extract the threaded portion of the bolt from the crankshaft. There’s a crankshaft spacer behind the timing gear on the crankshaft, and it had slid forward out of the engine block about 3/4 of its way out to prevent the timing sprocket from keying onto the crankshaft.  See the enclosed pics.

I was a…[Read more]

Took longer than i expected to post these. Computer programs upgrade and change how everything works just as you get comfortable with them.

Anyway, the final photos of the upgrade.

The panel being finished.

The finished panel.

Didn’t turn out too bad. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough for who it’s for.

See you in Carlisle.

Bill, I am always amazed!!!!

On mine, the rear bow slides into a sleeve sewn into the top. There is an opening in that sleeve near each end where you take that strap and loop it over the rear bow. Then just loop it over the front bar and adjust with the buckle to where the top looks right.

We ran a new 8ga cable and everything works just fine. With everything turned on there is no smoke escaping. So on to fixing the hole in the side panel.

A trip to the local craft store supplied a Styrofoam ball.

Enlarged the hole to allow clearance for further adjustment if ever needed.

Cut a section off the ball and shaped it to resemble…[Read more]