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Apr 28, 2020 21:54:47 GMT
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Do any of you ever wonder whether your grandfathers are watching you from the other side? I do. I keep the radio in the garage set to a jazz station - mostly because it is calm music so I don't try to move too fast. I mention this because my favourite time to work is Sunday evenings when they have the Big Band show. As I listen I always imagine that what I am doing is somehow connected to previous generations listening to the same music while puttering in their shops.
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Apr 28, 2020 21:38:02 GMT
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and of course a civilian car based on a military vehicle
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So even though I really am a very stable genius :0 I do at least know what I don't know and (mostly) keep my mouth shut about it.
I am not a mechanic and I don't play one on TV. But, was pondering this most of the day and I am now wondering if it is the engine?
Here is my logic. If you depress the clutch you essentially disconnect the transmission from the engine. So, the gears aren't turning, the clutch isn't grabbing and therefore it isn't spinning either as it is separated from the flywheel. So, this should in theory eliminate the thrust bearing and the spring. With the clutch depressed the only thing really turning is the engine, therefore....
I guess the question is, what then? and it might be as simple as turning up the radio and joining the auto club. If the car is running and it cost, what 100 pounds for the engine it might be worth just driving it as any repair is likely to exceed the cost of the engine. Another might be some chemical therapy - not sure if an additive would help here? I use Lucas oil additive with every oil change and it seems to make things run quieter and smoother - and oil pressure is higher. Not sure if there is a UK alternative.
Feel free to disagree as I really don't know a lot about such things but....
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well, I have been looking at this for a number of hours wondering about a relevant relationship. All I could think of my friend Ed who had a white one very much like the pic. In 1982 he and I took a road trip from Toronto to Tisdale Saskatchewan. 2672 KM 28 hours straight through. Because you do. We got there only to find that there had been a family emergency (cell phone what's a cell phone) so we spent one night at our friend's house and drove straight back. So, Saturday morning - Wednesday morning 5000+ km. bonkers. The only connection is that before he had the GTi he had a brown Super Beetle with a hurst shifter handle and flared rear fenders. It looked literally nothing at all like the car in the picture, but, still a connection. That's all. Oh and the reason I posted this is because having been reminiscing about the GTi and the trip almost 30 years ago, My friend Ed messaged me out of the blue this afternoon to see how we are doing.
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Apr 27, 2020 13:35:22 GMT
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delete - not sure what I did Trying to 'quote' only the pic with the dog in the car and the baby in the yard and note that it is a proper shop with security and a supervisor already in place. well done!
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Could the noise be a spring on the pressure plate or a thrust bearing? Hmmm, how would I check the springs? I can't imagine it's the thrust bearing. Had a noisy one on it before, it been replaced, and the sound would stop when you pushed the clutch in. I am only aware of it being a visual check - looking to see if they are out of alignment. do you have a stethoscope? sound could perhaps let you know if it was coming from the engine or transmission.
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Could the noise be a spring on the pressure plate or a thrust bearing?
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The poor old postie is overworked at the moment and as its a bit of a walk from the road to our door a post box by the gate would make life a lot easier for him and it means we can keep the gate locked, it also means he wont be bothered by the dogs if they are out Next job is to find a spring for the door and something for the roof Looks a great project. Do you have problems with porch pirates in your neighbourhood? We had a neighbour knock on the door last year. She had found a package for my wife in the park at the end of the street. Someone had grabbed it but were apparently so disinterested in two children's books and a CD of Come From Away that they just threw the whole box in the garbage without even vandalizing it. I guess my real point is to ask whether it can latch on one side and open on the other or
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Yup, about the only thing I would be left to do after being caught would be to fashion my stretched and battered scrotum into a hat....... I would have thought a coin purse for the missus would be more a appropriate end use. I'll take punchlines for $200 Alex. What is stroke it a few times and it turns into a suitcase.
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love this thread thanks for sharing your expertise!
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jpsmit I'm glad you enjoyed. There is so much want I don't really know where to start. Probably with '66 Polara, the Detomaso Pantera and the '32 lowboy hotrod. The Oxford isn't actually mine, morrisoxide may part with it though. sigh Canada is far far away and it is not lost on SWMBO that I have four cars and a two car garage and, she has estimated that it takes me 10 years per car which pretty much takes me to 90.
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Apr 25, 2020 18:38:27 GMT
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So many cars to love so much want! Cars I have never seen before (DAF/ ZUK) However if I had to pick three I would REALLY want in my garage. 3. Commer Camper 2. Thames Pickup (loved the thread too) 1. Your own conveyance the Oxford - it is stunning! There was a basket case of one for sale here about a year ago $800 CAD - I kept dreaming of putting it on a modern chassis with AC etc but alas it disappeared. Just as well SWMBO would have had me sleeping in it.
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Apr 25, 2020 13:42:59 GMT
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Impressive - but lighting is lighting is lighting isn't it? After all acetylene lights are almost as bright. Locomobile
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I termed "electronic weasels", because it sounds like the whistling warbling noises ferrets and weasels make when they're unsure about what they're sticking their nose into. Phil I love that I was reading this nodding to myself and thinking 'why yes that exactly what it sounds like,' as if I had the faintest clue of what weasels or a ferrets make when they're unsure about what they're sticking their nose into. I love this forum
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Driving Lights. I do love driving lights and one of my dream projects is to do an 1800 into a Rally Landcrab. Don't know why I love the look of this car as much as I do but..... (and may I say a mini leading to a landcrab is waaaaay cooler than an Atlantic leading to a Caribbean which would then have to go to a Chrysler Pacifica which is such a cr*p choice) so, well done mrbounce!
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It transpires that a few of the guys working for Lotus, or associated works such as Progress Chassis, collaborated to produce a small run of late VIs before the jig was broken up. When I say jig, I understand that it was an old iron bedstead with tram tracks. So before we go to the link, I must respond to this comment and note that when it came to the small run of late VIs - clearly the jig really was up! (or part B when they made it they really broke the mold) I love love love that Jag and, for the connection I chose rivets. Specifically rivets on a Bugatti Atlantic. Oh and people I can't be the only one killing time looking at cars when I am supposed to be working on the house. We need many more connections.
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Thanks for that clarification (what do I know of these things) Ah well time to swallow my pride and try again (see what I did there) So Jaaaaag if the previous previous was a 7 and the previous became a Jag, then how about a Jag 8? XK8 to be specific
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Apr 22, 2020 14:04:18 GMT
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Hmmm Lotus 7 special brings us to Austin 7 special
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Apr 21, 2020 13:26:25 GMT
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Crosleys amaze me - but, Sebring is Sebring and of course we then need a Sebring Sprite
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Apr 20, 2020 23:06:10 GMT
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1981. Bertha. 1962 Mercury Meteor. This isn't it but it was white though in my care we painted it maroon while keeping the top white. 170 CI straight 6 3 on the tree. Cruise all day long at 65 MPH.
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