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Curiously enough, I expected a replacement tank I got from Jbugs to be coated inside. Like you say, that’s what is usually said about them.
There was a note saying it was sent without that coating, and yet their web page has a prominent warning about the coating needing to be cleaned out.
https://www.jbugs.com/product/113201075AB.html
Wish I could locate the note it had upon delivery. Something about the manufacturer no longer used that coating. It only had foil seals (were not airtight either) on the filler and fuel sender openings.
Wish I could say with 100% certainty. I still haven’t installed that tank, or cut and welded the filler neck. Just took a look inside again and I see nothing that would indicate a special coating, looks like bare metal to me. Don’t know why I didn’t leave that note with the tank (stored indoors), but I sure remember about that note saying it lacked the coating because it surprised me.
Maybe it was a California thing…? Jbugs is located there. I’ve just now asked about it on their web page for the 1961-67 tank using the Q&A. Hopefully a reply will show up.
Fun to see that.
Glad your crash wasn’t like the other car that rolled. I looked at it a few times and thought maybe I could see the car bounce, so was thinking maybe that was what made the rear wheels let loose. Hard to tell. You would know better than I.
And the car that rolled did bounce some before steering into the curb, but no way of knowing what was actually taking place behind the wheel. Looked like the driver steered into it. However you could say that of yours too if not for seeing your steering point of view.
Thanks for sharing the pictures and videos! You were doing great on the wet road, good racing.
Thanks for that, Ed! I probably should edit it again to remove all the middle and leave only the beginning and end. I forget it only makes for putting things on the minds of other people.
Other edits were done to fix errors when I reread it. You sure wouldn’t want me to talk in person, I don’t even do well about ordinary talk. LOL
It’s just awful the things people must go through. Many years ago I realized I was affected too much by news stories or reality TV (for instance COPS), so I stopped the constant watching for bad news. No newspaper and I throw out the occasional free ones in the mail.
I would visit my Mom and Dad to find them watching local or cable news, the COPS show, Dr. Phil, court shows and such. I always mentioned maybe they watch too much of those things trying to get them to change to other things. But I should talk, I still do a daily local news check myself. Things I can’t do anything about. There’s something about it all, like having an open wound already and pouring salt in, if you get what I’m saying.
Last night when I went to a public fireworks show and pulled into a church parking lot, trying to find where I could park, a very nice woman was welcoming me to use a space there. I had been by earlier to see how the park was getting ready and that church roped off most of their lot except several spaces along street out front. They were having a barbecue and tables set up out there. When I went back later on I looked to see if any of those other spaces were still available, they had removed the ropes and the place looked full. She was happy to give me a space although I said I was going to the park next to them for the event. Maybe because everyone from the church was already there, don’t know. She also gave me a bottle of water I tried to politely refuse. I talked to her a little bit more, and I realized how low I was feeling before that. Made for a better time, just talking with a stranger who was happy to talk about whatever.
Sympathies to all.
Tragedy is nothing new to me personally. I’m anti-gun because, although my grandfather (born early last century) hunted up until I was a teenager I was never a hunter myself and I was shot in the arm at my first job at a hotel by unknown person. I didn’t even know it was a bullet hole in my arm (only very painful). Just wondered how such a deep hole got in my forearm when stacking chairs in the middle of the night. Bright metal flecks appeared around the scab. I could only guess maybe a bullet was shot from somewhere in the building, hit the metal of one of the chairs next to my arm.
A close friend got a handgun and threatened me (and parents) when drunk in the middle of the night just because he wanted me to go outside with him.
My younger brother’s friend Jerri was going to her first job interview from a newspaper ad. Was phony and the guy shot her several times, dumped her unclothed body in a nearby lake. I had told her it wasn’t anything to be nervous about when she stopped by on her way there, just tell them why you would like to get job and answer their questions. Her father called us that night looking for her and I was the one who answered the phone, and that’s all I could tell him about it. While the Green River serial killer murders were going on FBI thought that was another but wasn’t.
A mugger wanted my $18 pocket watch from a K-Mart while I was going to a University of Washington night class. Shot me in the side before I took gun from him and shot him in the face. I didn’t realize what happened and still went on to class.
There were many other incidents unrelated to guns yet I still had to fight for my life with another serial killer who asked me to look at something under a freeway overpass outside of downtown Seattle late one night. I also didn’t know what had happened until much later, remembering eventually I had been able to get out of the choke hold after he jumped on my back. He was showing me what appeared to be bodies of other people, seen only by my matchlight when attacked.
Another time while walking along Green River Road outside of Kent WA, a girl driver with 2 teenage boys pulled up to me and wanted me to buy them “booze”. I refused and one of them from the back seat with car door open pointed a gun, as well as I could tell, so I got in. She drove wildly not far from there as I was saying it’s Sunday and I don’t think alcohol is sold anyway. Going fast around a curve she lost control and a group of 4 or 5 little kids on bicycles were there. She ran them down. I don’t know what I saw from there on, only that I was walking across a bridge over the river. I read the news story with her picture in it, Dorothy Judge was the name, and I wasn’t sure what was real or not as I thought about it.
Not many years between all that, and not many afterward when I moved back to Alabama, people shooting guns all the time around the old farmland I lived on, which was bought by my father from his oldest brother (a 24 acre property he owned but not lived on). And I couldn’t deal with that very well, so when they were shooting along the edge of my yard 100 feet away I called police. Later on the family at a house 1/4 mile away were shooting a shotgun at me and my home, pellets raining down. Hit me in the leg, I was on my tractor digging a shallow drainage ditch. This being before I was fully aware of all the things going on with my life in a fairly short span of time. The main thing on my mind was my brothers girlfriend being shot to death and I hated guns. I was in a rage and went to their house, confronting them at the door. Next thing I know the 11 year old kid said, “The police said you’re trouble”. Obviously because I had been calling about gunshots where I lived. Yeah, believe it or not.
Many more terrible events before I moved there, like a suicide of a guy I didn’t know but had stopped me on the sidewalk asking me what people would think if he killed himself, and I came across him near same place hanging from public park swings. I couldn’t lift him out and knocked on doors of houses looking for help late at night, then I don’t know what after that.
I had mental blocks going on, as I would recall things then immediately forget again. I eventually started writing them down, along with approximate times or years.
Then more happened, during a night I couldn’t sleep I went to walk around at a boat launch on a creek waterway. Found what looked like shoes and legs in the brush waters edge, think I tried pulling the legs out. Don’t know what from there. Next day a coroner car and police were there when I drove past and I told them about being there before. Found out a woman was decapitated by her husband or companion once it was in the news stories.
All that during the 1980’s (which began for me with Mount St. Helens erupting and being there too). I lived like a recluse for the 1990’s while my older sister died from complications due to respiratory distress after being stung by a yellow jacket. Her and some other family members had stayed in Washington. I was asked to go see her in the hospital, where she was for 3 weeks, but either my fear of flying or subconscious worries of what to believe if I went back there or both prevented me. All the while I prayed for her from home, but I also wasn’t sure what to believe anymore if real or not. Was just before my Halloween birthday.
Along comes 9/11 a few years after that. I still hadn’t finished writing all the things I wasn’t able to bring to the forefront of my mind, except briefly. In more recent times, I had a little girl walked up to me at an outdoor shopping mall while sitting watching kids play in the water jet fountain. Was a couple months after my Mom past away from brain cancer, June 2008, when the Casey Anthony and Caylee news was prevalent. She only said “Not my mom.” I looked over at the two Hispanic women nearby that seemed to be with her. I didn’t know if she meant me or one of them. Far-fetched, I know, but I might resemble Casey Anthony when my hair is long, so either way. Not that I thought of it at the moment but as time went by I wondered again and again about that. The girl really looked like Caylee from TV pictures, albeit with perhaps darker hair, but it was partially wet too.
And just within past few weeks, police were hoping to find out about a body someone found along a tree line, only saying there were red gingerbread man printed pants. I had recently remarked about that to myself when I saw a girl walk past me with a couple other people, at either the same outdoor mall or a couple different carnivals/fairs going on just before that. I just thought it was unusual to see a gingerbread man pattern on pants. I felt I couldn’t call police to tell about that, one reason being it wasn’t much to go on and another is local people have been persecuting me for just going to public parks and watching ball games. Suspicious stranger kind of thing. Anyway, as that story turned out it was a 13 year old Hispanic girl and her grandmother was missing whose body was found later. Both killed by a couple of Hispanic men they were able to find and they said the murder of the 13 year old was “brutal”.
BTW my 2nd job was as security patrol car driver for an area including 4 towns. I was always considered observant, and as much as I liked the job it wasn’t good for me, a lot of pressure, and I quit after a year and a half. Everyone who knows me knows how passive I am. Maybe a secondary thing in my life, bad news stories, I read and see them with numbness, sickliness.
Also was just months ago a 3 year old girl was shot through a wall of the house, she died soon after. That house is 7 away from the one I lived at when I was 3, same street. I went to talk with them after their candlelight vigil for her. I seriously don’t know how I continue on with any sanity myself… well, that’s another matter. Questionable sanity? I’ve been on Social Security Disability since early 1990’s and not because of physical problems.
It all really takes away from what would otherwise be highlights of good things in my life, just feel I don’t have that. I was able to live next to Cape Canaveral/Kennedy when I was a kid, seeing the first moon launches. My Dad became an executive with Boeing Aerospace and ultimately managed part of the International Space Station for Boeing. He was a Great Depression era baby, born 1933 in an old slave quarters of a plantation after his family house burned. They were very poor (redundant, sorry) and he was last of 13 siblings, 3 girls which died after birth. Him and Mom married at 17 and 19 years old, living in a tiny house alongside her parents house that they built, and were together for 57 years. Korean War Veteran. An average family of average families to be sure, from my point of view exceptional maybe because of the other families I knew when growing up with so many problems.
As you can see by now, this is actually a tirade or words I’m spouting because I wanted to give a response. I try to refrain, to be sure. Somewhat unintended, I just believe you should hear what these things are to people like me. There is an onslaught being perpetrated on everyone, anytime, by anyone. Those of you able to cope, still must do just that. I never want bad things to happen and it always hurts, others and myself. I was happiest when very young and ignorant, and all that is long gone. What keeps me going is a stubbornness to seek out the good things and have fun. My usual advice to others. Whether or not I keep getting knocked back down myself.
Mine were filthy with a tendency to lockup easily, and one or two (forget now) needed adjusting too.
Brake cleaner on the pads and drums (avoid hub bearings) and a screwdriver to turn the star-wheel (adjusters) is all that it took to fix it. Fairly simple thing, DIY job, just not something you want to get wrong either so I won’t try to explain it.
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Bob, I just took a look at Google maps. It appears to be just a matter of distance. If you cross the Geiger Bridge, the drive to Schlicher’s Bridge is nine miles. If you backtrack as the brochure map recommends, it’s 2.7 miles. And apparently, the Jordan Creek Ford at Trexler Nature Preserve is meant to be driven across! Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UaIGCnuEac
I’ve never seen a place made to be able to do that, on purpose anyway. Drove a ’69 Toyota Corona across the rocky shallows of a river once with a couple girls on the roof to get across to a gathering of people with 4X4’s. I’m seldom that brave but the water only reached into the floor of that little car and I had the extra weight to help me.
I’ve seen now that “The Ford” water crossing is a One Way drive, but still possible to go to Geiger’s Bridge and turn around in the parking lot on the other side then backtrack out to head north on Game Preserve Rd to Trexler Nature Preserve, which eventually goes to Game Preserve Rd again after The Ford crossing. Follow that west and south to Schlicher’s Bridge and continue from there out to the route your map shows.
Not only would I like to see those bridges if I ever get up that way I would have to drive through the water just to say I had done it. Better yet if in the MGTDr.
Bob
Hey Paul, that looks like a quick and easy tour with all those covered bridges so close together.
When I saw the two at NW part of the map I almost didn’t think it strange how the route backtracks. Had to see if it was for a reason I encounter here, closed roads and the general way these kinds of bridges can be in rough terrain.
Looking at maps.google.com using satellite view they apparently aren’t cut off from surrounding roads, so I wondered why your map goes back out and around to the NW? Unless for a more scenic drive.
I was looking at how there’s a zoo between those bridges and to my surprise I saw a “ford”, a roadway going through shallow water. Is that really intended to be driven through all the time? If you know what I’m talking about anyhow.
Bob
I think mine is the standard circa 1970 type with both switches, but I think only the forward one is connected/functional. Thought I had a picture of it from when I was trying to find out why I lost brake lights (loose switch connections), couldn’t locate that to be sure about the wiring.
Hey Lrh, If you made the small town of Roscoe, NY (pop abt 600)(in the Catskill Mountains) your hub for a day or two, there are nine covered bridges that I know of.
That’s a good idea too. I only thought about a direct route via metropolitan areas so I could see all the usual tourist places, so a scenic route would be better than doubling back. Main consideration is time, I know it takes a while going place to place as it is, and more so on those winding country roads to the isolated spots. But I also like to make the most of everything so it would be my loss if I didn’t try to go everywhere I possibly could while there.
Looked at the satellite map of Roscoe, and then a birds eye view. Sure enough, there was the RR caboose. What a little hamlet that is, out there surrounded by beautiful wooded hills! I always have to remind myself New York is not just the city of same name.
I keep telling myself, ‘someday I’m going to see the northeast US’. I’ve been across the country from southern tip of Florida to Washington state (only stepped into Canada there), north to Ohio and Washington D.C. but not into the NE corner of the country.
I’m going to try to plan a long touring visit whenever I do get there, so events involving old cars should not be overlooked. You’ve only intrigued me more by mentioning covered bridges because I had been mapping out and sightseeing them locally (Alabama and neighboring states), along with railroad caboose cars set aside in public parks and such.
I used Google Earth to do that and maybe someone else might find it useful. The locations and info were gathered almost entirely from a few sources I found on the ‘net, not to be considered 100% accurate. Not only that, the definition of “covered bridge” is considered to be everything from slightly more than yard decoration (across ditch) to old ruins. Internet search of possible destinations potentially helpful in that regard, something I’ve learned for every sightseeing adventure and events since they change year by year.
Only thought about it because my still new car has one and it has been useful in parking lots or backing up close to things. But that’s with a car that doesn’t have much of a view out the back, I don’t have any trouble seeing behind the little MGTDr. Hmm, wait, maybe I should rethink that. I backed my tailpipes into something the first day I had it.
I know someone who was using the backup camera of a new car (not mine) and backed into a closed garage door trying to leave the house. needless to say (yet I say it here) there’s some learning involved, you can’t just use the camera alone. Just like mirrors.
I get the “distraction” thing, since it’s like a big lit up mirror in the middle of the dash, so for nighttime it really takes some getting used to.
Almost useless in rain, especially at night, but still helpful for seeing if anything/anyone is right behind the car. Otherwise it can be better to just look over the shoulders, and that’s the important thing about trying to get comfortable with my backup camera. I had to relearn to not forget to do that enough to keep careful. The camera is only another way to look around, together with the other two ways.
Got to ask… why not power via reverse light/transmission switch? Noticed you were telling about powering it from another source. I think I would be watching the backward view too much if mine was able to be on all the time.
I checked the tail/brake light sockets. Both wires going to the socket are the same diameter wire.
Hi Allen.
David said “filaments” inside the bulbs so I’m not sure if you misread what he was saying.
I believe there would be 2 contacts for the brake bulb so it can act as both normal light and brake light, therefore 2 wires going to it. I’m thinking maybe since you say “both wires”, meaning 2, that could mean one is the brake and other is for the 2 separate bulb sockets.
Might be easier to figure out testing for power while applying brake pedal instead of wire color.
And if you were saying the 2 bulbs and sockets are single contact it must be different than I would have expected, but then I don’t know MG or VW or whatever these kits might be using.
Bob
Well news to me. First I didn’t know anything about the MG TD, much less replica, and now this. Been learning more and more since getting my MGTDr.
I see that dash board on the work bench. Any chance of those being octagonal, like originals?
Wheels seem to be original type. But I can only go by pictures I’ve seen.
Hope you get it on the road next year and not wait until the next. Should be plenty of fun driving.
Bob
MC sometimes leaking into the inside of the tunnel. My dual brake MC is leaking at the top where the two hoses from the reservoir connect. I’m thinking of using a reservoir that connects directly on the top of the dual brake MC.
Food for thought.
I’ve loaded my hood compartment with so much stuff, I worry about the reservoir getting jostled by loose tools and container boxes. Of course it wouldn’t take much to enclose with a little protective shield either, just thinking about those short lengths of blue hose being possibly older than 32 years.
Only sonic warning I have is from one of my truck brakes, and it’s more like a dog whistle. No squeal yet from braking, but been through that before so I don’t trust sounds to warn me when they don’t always do so.
No way of knowing if low pressure was ever a factor here since first thing I did was refill brake fluid. Those wire connectors were incredibly loose. I’m surprised wind while driving didn’t pull them off.
No signs of leakage on brake lines. Going to watch reservoir for now, maybe it’s a hose right there going into the carpeted hood interior.
Heh-heh, yeah, or powered by a squirrel wheel. Sometimes seems like mine is anyway.
I don’t think there’s spare wheel venting for mine, solid round panel inside, and the car did well during the summer on 90 degree days too. Oil temp showed up to 230 after 10’s of miles going 70 MPH, usually around 220 to 225 on the highway.
Let idle about 10 minutes on a hot day (talking with someone, I was too stupid to switch off) and that was the only time I noticed the engine seemed sluggish until moving again a couple minutes. Oil temp was probably trying to go above 230 but I know it wasn’t excessive either, if the gauge is to be trusted at all.
Missed seeing about this until your reply secretagentcat. Yeah, I was wanting a Corvette since 40 years ago. Got to mean something to at least want one.
Just this past January I finally bought a ’77, last year of the flat back window, and first year they were available in black (without a special order anyhow). Mine was and is black but shows signs of repaints in orange and red.
It’s in bad shape, was worse before new tires, brakes, radiator flush, differential oil, etc. Still needs power steering, or go manual instead. Whole interior needs restoring. Seats, door panels, upper dash pad, steering wheel, carpet… ugly tattered mess. Paint is faded and deeply scratched all over. Original engine, burning oil. I won’t be doing much more with it, hope to get same thing someday that’s already fixed up nice.
I almost bought a C4 instead, thinking cost-wise for decent driver car, but the ’77 and earlier ‘vette’s are what I like most.
Enjoy your Vette, greg-press!
Bob, I’m still trying to figure out how to download pictures. I don’t see an image button with mountains and a sun.
I didn’t know the forum changed the way it’s done, sorry. If you look at ACTIVITY atop the web page here you might see my message where I was able to add a picture of the image button I was talking about. But unfortunately it doesn’t work the same as it did before this forum changed its format. Used to be able to simply select a file after pressing the image button. So for right now I only know it can be done using the ACTIVITY link, then the camera+music-note button there.
Hope I can learn how to get pictures into message postings again myself! If at all possible.
Bob
My kit is a CMC/Fiberfab and unlike most MIGIs, the front of my two front fenders come together in front of the grille. MIGIs have a piece that covers the fenders in front of the grille.
You taught me something. Thanks! So that must mean I have a CMC here too… unless there’s more to it than just that. 🙂
I guess we’re still hoping for pics, wannabtd? More than the little profile picture I squinted at already. Ha ha! Looked like your convertible top fits down behind the seats better than mine does, if there is a top folded back there.
Bob
To upload pictures you just need to use the image button (tiny mountains, sun) and go through the process of selecting them from your device and sending them here. Or look at gallery section.
It’s probably a MiGi but I don’t know the specifics on what makes them different from others.
My Fiberfab has the windshield cowl brackets and I don’t see that on yours in the profile picture. Each builder did things differently.
Headlight brackets would probably be flat bar crescents, like mine, instead of like the original real cars with tubular brackets. London Roadster mounted headlights directly to sides of grille (not fenders).
I don’t even know if Fiberfab body kits were used for the many other variants, but I suppose someone here does.
Bob
So with my tank filler being on the driver side front what would be the downfall of the tank from parts geek, Part Number: 17321-05442102. Thanks.
Probably would require a hose put onto the horizontal inlet tube that can reach above the top of the tank, 90 degree elbow for example, and a way to put a cap on that. Likewise for the smaller tube opening next to it, or plug it somehow. So getting it above the top of the tank and positioned solidly might be the most difficult thing to do.
I’m only guessing. You really need the advice of someone with that particular tank setup or has done it before.
That’s the type with the filler neck on that shallow end angled corner I was talking about before.
You would either need to find a way to connect a filler hose leading out to somewhere, or remove that neck and move it to the opposite corner.
To have it the same way ours are (passenger/windshield corner) means welding a plate over where that low forward facing neck is (assuming not installing backward) and cutting a hole for it into the deep corner.
BTW, can’t recall ordering from Parts Geek before.
The fuel outlet is angled slightly, at least is on mine, a little toward shallow end or away from filler neck. Mine is (rather was, out of car now) same as yours and others say, filler on passenger side windshield corner.
Although I have seen pictures of tanks with filler necks on that opposite corner and I wonder if that’s what you might have seen too. In fact, looked to me like some had been there, removed and a plate welded over it, then moved onto p.s.w.c. If I’m remembering that right anyway.
{Oops, rereading and editing myself. Need to add that the tank orientation itself was still with deep end at windshield. The plate (if really done that way) would be vertical at the angled driver side corner.}
However, thinking as I was reading here, I did see that driver side forward orientation someplace. Just don’t think I’ve seen more than one or two. I tried searching for that just now and came up ’empty’. Ha. Too late, said it. Empty… tank. I’ll groan for us all.
I removed my leaking tank and still need to get a new tank. Been using a portable plastic tank, a little 3 gallon size, for a year now. 50 mile range without worry and haven’t actually been motivated enough yet to get the new metal tank.
MG Magic has the correct tank and instructions for cutting and welding the filler neck so it will fit under the hood. See their page:
http://www.mgmagicclassicmotorparts.com/gas-tank-vw-mg-td-replacement/
Must be sure you get the correct tank if you buy someplace else, there are larger tanks and vary by year too. I can’t say if nothing but one type will fit or not but apparently a larger (10+ gallon?) tank wouldn’t. I’m just going to get the one like MG Magic sells.
The air vent tube can’t be used for VW version. Need vented cap, which you probably have already.
I believe a new tank will need to be cleaned before using them or welding too, something about rust preventative in them I think.
Bob
