Very impressive, sir! They look brand new.

Rich. Was just talking about you today with Greg (“Wolfgang” on the Speedster forum). He’s thinking of towing his mess to the show & having us keep working there on it. Said I was game but didn’t know if we might be under your car–or Paul’s (apparently not). Anyway, glad you’re up and running. Assume you checked all your fittings and couplings…[Read more]

Dunno, Rich. Maybe late summer, but you’re the first to respond so, when’s good for you?If recollection holds true, Stoney does his roast beef dinner with yorkshire pudding on Saturday eves. He’s a scotch fan but mostly also a bar owner, so you’ll get vodka if you want. Keeps a keg or two of Guinness on site too.

No oil leaks puts you way ahead of me & Bridget. Good call on the tires too. I should’ve done that last year, and it won’t be done until next week. I’ll let the wire-wheel-havin’ guys address your “each spoke” question.

Paul, my man! If you’d care to slum, you can ride w/ me when Karen is napping, as I’m betting she’ll do at some point.But how ’bout this idea? Get yer tow bar and hitch the MG to the Volvo or whatever, throw the new mill in the trunk (of the tow vehicle), drag it in and put us monkeys to work on the Carlisle grounds. What’s to lose?No matter how…[Read more]

Bummer Paul – I was hoping you could bring your car – it looks like 2 or 3
cars max again – come on guys – anyone else?
Looking forward to seeing you anyway Paul – You can right seat w/ one of
us.

Bump.Also, sorry for your trouble, Denny. For sure next year, OK? Guessing Montie’s not making it in from Ohio? (Ohio was it?) Or are you in with the webbed seat trick?That still leaves the usual suspects–Schu, who as usual has his stuff together, apparently; Mossberg–Paul, have you regained access to your shed, car and 1776 long block? Need any…[Read more]

Yeah, Rob, that’s gonna be a cool rig. I dig that Cobra too. 

Terry, sorry you have to sell. You could post pics here too if you’d like. Make sure they’re no bigger than 500mb. Hit that “tree-up-arrow” icon hanging off the upper right corner of the “Post Reply” window. Put a complete description too. What year pan is it on? Do you know the engine size? Which kit manufacturer is it? Stock drums or disc…[Read more]

That is such a clean looking TD, Mel. Love those wheels.

OK, got it done. Calafer, thanks. Used your jack-the-allen-wrench technique. Got the top adjuster almost all the way home.This was after taking both upper arms out of the spindle. To my surprise (but not Mark’s, I’m sure), they popped up and out. They were not pre-loading down on the lowers, they were fighting the lowers. Shot some WD-40 into the…[Read more]

Think the way forward here is to pull out the top ball joints and just turn the top trailing arms up and then tighten the adjuster locks. I want to add a pinch of negative camber to try to “tuck” the tops of my wheels under the fenders a tad, so the ball joints have to be loosened for that anyway. Thinking that’ll help keep the driver’s side…[Read more]

Thanks guys. Roger on the allen-wrench-as-prybar trick. That’s been my SOP since the beginning. Didn’t try jacking on it yet, but, maybe…. Seems like either it’ll work or break.Already disconnected the shocks, so that ain’t it.I got more slot visible above the top of the wrinkly curved lock plate still, and I know the mechanism moved in its full…[Read more]

Yeah, it’s an adjustable beam. And my above musings are bogus–at least in terms of musing # B. The way it’s made, pretty sure you can’t miss the divot. Can’t get the springs in wrong either–it’s right or it doesn’t go. For more on adjustable beams, and suspension adjusters, do a search for Pinkmg’s posts. He set his up nice and is generally a…[Read more]

Thanks, Mark. I was hoping you’d chime in. Indeed, the top adjuster moves–it went way low when I lowered the car with the adjuster nuts loose. But when I raised it back up, max rise, with the wheels and tires hanging, the top adjuster went only so far. Maybe three quarters of the way back. The nose is all assembled now, and the grill is in the…[Read more]

Update: tried to lift the front end a bit with the adjusters; NG. Got the lower one dialed in as high as it will go. That got me about 3/8 of an inch. But the top tube adjuster won’t turn up beyond where it was before. Assume I’ll have to disconnect the upper trailing arms to get it to go, and that’ll preload them and give me some extra height.…[Read more]

HA! Found it. Grounding wire is binding on the fiberglass. I’ve got the horn rigged elsewise so I’ll just rip that sucker out tonight.Then I’ll jack ‘er up and adjust the suspension to give me another inch of down travel and hope that gets it.

It works good in the shop, jacked up and on the ground. Flat floor.

Finally got her all assembled today (front bumper back on, etc.) Took her for a spin with the windshield down just, you know, to be cool.Figures, eh? I loved it anyway, even though at one point a traffic light changed suddenly & I got a whiff of burning fiberglass/rubber as I pulled her to a stop. See my other post for details.
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On my V-dub someone just bent the pedals. Didn’t do them any harm, it seems.What’s the Chevette setup look like? Seems to me you could either bend the pedal stem or relocate the whole thing, including the master cylinder.You might also consider the gas pedal and options for making it more compact. Original TDs had very small foot boxes, and the…[Read more]