Hmm. TDr is under 4 feet high; you could raise it 6 feet in that place, which would give you room enough to park any car and most light trucks ‘neath it.

Geez! I forgot about the idle shutoff. I had a problem with mine a few years ago and defeated it by cutting off the little plunger. ……it ain’t no fun etc etc[EMAIL= ][/EMAIL]

You may, by turning up idle speed, be masking a vacuum leak. While idling, you can squirt engine oil around the throttle shafts and intake manifold at the base of the carb and where the manifold mates up to the heads. Squirt, and listen carefully for changes. Don’t hurry. Any change indicates a vacuum leak. The engine may not respond…[Read more]

BUMMER. I don’t own a lift either, for the same reason.

Kent, I’m very jealous. I hope you planned enough ceiling height for an eventual lift.

VW says 900.

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I believe that the float would have to be WAY off to experience this. More likely, assuming it is not an intermittent electrical prob is that the carb mixture is too lean, and when you take your foot off the accelerator pedal to apply the brake, the throttle butterfly goes shut and starves the engine. Back off on the mixture screw a bit (see Rob…[Read more]

When I replaced my carpet over the summer, some of the panels I put in place with snaps. Easy in, easy out.

The main pipe is aluminized 1.5 inch exhaust pipe I had a muffler shop bend. I also have several bits of 1.5 rubber radiator hose and some stainless “flex” pipe I got from one of the on-line hotrod outlets. The connections to the radiator reduce from 1.5 to 1.25 ID.

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OK, engine back in car.

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I had originally used the lamp from a GEO Tracker mounted to a simple bent piece of flat aluminum. After the repainting I now have an LED as the center cap of the wire cover on the spare tire.

Hey great progress.

That windshield kit looks viable. But remember, your cowl is probably not the same width as a TD.

I used a single trailer light mounted atop the license plate bracket. Can’t hurt, I figure. It’s a plain 2-filament bulb that lights with the headlights and lights even more with the brake lights. 

For you purists who just have to have a TD folding windshield:http://www.ebay.com/itm/201196473028?item=201196473028&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME:SS:SS:US:1120&vxp=mtr
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Julie & I lived in southwest Fl, on Pine Island for a few years, and those raccoons got so bold as to come in our house at night (through the doggie door) and root through our kitchen cabinets, the refrigerator and the pantry until they found something tasty. This was not uncommon. Eventually had to housebreak our elderly and spoiled dog, just…[Read more]

Speedometer ought to read 0 when the car isn’t moving, whether the engine is on or not. 

Raccoons?

Reading from a 1977 Daytona MIGI sales brochure:….”we produced the FIRST MG-TD fiberglass replica body, which I named ‘MIGI’, in February 1975.” Signed LaVerne Martincic, President Daytona AutomotiveSomewhere else I read that Daytona kits were sold to London Roadster to assemble as factory manufactured “component cars”, but I have not been able…[Read more]

Whoa. Someone Sharpied their Lambo?