Thanks all for the good adviced.  Started with the cheap and simple, replacing the capacitor.  Let’s see what happens next.

Hope everyone had a good one. We froze ourselves at the Eagles game last night.

Long update on the Spyder work. Here we have the tub, aluminum-clad (mostly). Waiting on rivets now and preparing to travel for Christmas. Happy holidays to all!

The accusump that I bought is the small one with only a 1quart capacity. It’s basically used at startup to preoil the system. I push a switch and pressurized oil circulated through the engine. Once started, engine oil pressure refills the unit to be ready for the next startup. As it sits for long periods, there won’t be any dry starts. There are…[Read more]

If you don’t mind, Bill, I can field this question.

The Accusump is an oil accumulator: when your oil pressure is high, the tank fills up with oil. If or when your oil pressure is low, the Accusump injects oil into the engine, raising the oil pressure.

The idea is to prevent oil starvation, which can happen when you’re pulling a lot of G’s in…[Read more]

Half-inch plate isn’t “reinforcement” Bill. It’s armor.

When I had those symptoms it was carb icing. One of the little heater tubes that come from the exhaust manifold and go to the intake manifold had rotted away. It was hiding behind one of the bigger paper foil heater tubes that run into the fan shroud, so I did not see it for like a season. Eventually I just wrapped it with silver muffler tape and…[Read more]

Spent a few hours in the garage today. Pulled the transmission, removed the bell housing and clutch to drive the pilot bearing deeper into the crankshaft. Initial installation was tough. I had to pull the transmission up tight with the mounting bolts. Now it slides right in all t he way. While it was disassembled I finished the mounting of the…[Read more]

Here’s another from the Gateway Classics near me: http://gatewayclassiccars.com/fort-lauderdale/1991/mg/td-S563.html

Its a shame they included the photos of the bent and twisted front bumper. For the asking price it would be easy to replace it.

They claim a telescoping steering column. I wonder where that came from?

The Spyder gauges came yesterday. 914 units re-done entirely (and at significant expense) by North Hollywood Speedometer. Purely European spec: 250 kph speedometer, oil temperature reading in Celsius. As is correct for Porsche 550-0051.

I agonized about doing this. The kit came with a new set of 356-style Chinese repops, which fit the pre-cut…[Read more]

Hit me up. I’m not really good with electrics but I am slowly improving. As with the welder, which might could be employed to get those new pans properly affixed.

No reserve, man. I’m free all day on most days, these days.

Oh man…I’d forgot about the Chevette diesel. Late ’70s-early ’80s were dark days.

Progress. Impressive!