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Hear, hear!

I would be really interested in seeing your modifications. I have a partially completed web site listing some of mine. I am always looking for new ideas!

-Evan

Thilo Kass http://www.mogsrus.com/ has made up some replacement for the metal partial ring thingie. It has a couple of teeth to keep the mechanism from sliding around. Around $10.00 as I recall.

-Evan

Are the float levels in the carburators set correctly?

-Evan

Jim, Thanks - that is what I suspected. Rebuilding the drive line will be a lot easier now that the body is off. At this point my teenage lackeys are still fascinated with the air powered tools, so they are pretty willing to help take things apart. It is mostly a matter of getting them to fit helpin...

I grabbed the ouput shaft of the transmission at the U-joint. There is some definite up and down movement with attendent small clunking noises. I also found that the bell housing internals are covered in oily grime and the clutch is slipping. I'm planning to drop the tranny tomorrow. Is the wiggle p...

Given that Jim tends to lean to the right, I commend his ability to answer a question that leans to the left... Anyway, from my perspective, as Jim implied, many odd problems arise from poor connections. It is a great investment in wheeling longevity to verify that all of the electrical on your truc...

OOooooooh....Bob...that is a visualization I did NOT need. I hope for the sake of all things proper, moral and "G" rated he paints with his clothes on. Unless, of course, "Todd" is actually short for "Toddette," in which case the idea of her painting in the nude is diff...

Could also mean this:

http://www.bigstupididiot.com/2009/04/h ... rinks.html

-Evan

Thanks!

Given my warped outlook on life, I kinda want to rig up the chassis so I can drive it around the block at least once without a body.

I have already driven without an exhaust. I don't think there is a cat on the block that didn't have the feline equivalent of a butt-pucker.

-Evan

Norcal, I am a bit behind you with removing the body from my 712. Relying on teenage slave labor makes schedules unpredictable. Did you disconnect the parking brake from the rear and thread the cable through to the front, or disconnect from the front and leave the rear intact? My only mistake so far...

Miles,

What is your tool of choice for removing paint from wide swaths of sheet metal?

I have the body detached from the frame, and I'm going to start cleaning up the body soon.

Thanks!

-Evan

Here is a picture of the cheap compressor I used, in action. You can see the protrusions on the top that fouled the body during installation, and the arc of the bolts that put mechanical stress in places you don't want mechincal stress. http://home.comcast.net/~hillmanpinz/SpringComp.JPG Before I mo...

Erik, It may also be a good idea to find friendly members of the lists you are on who live along the path. I have helped a couple of people I would not otherwise have met, and they would have been stranded. One guy on a British car list posted his itinerary and got quite a list of volunteers to cove...

I have had moderate success with a spring compressor. I "removed" the spring as a side effect of pulling the axle, so I dindn't need a compressor for that. When I used a cheap compressor to reinstall the spring, it broke under a lot of tension, sending both ends rocketing across the shed. ...

Chris, This one is about $14.00 http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/Product/Pr-p_Product.CATENTRY_ID:2004483/c-10101/Nty-1/p-2004483/Ntx-mode+matchallpartial/N-10101/tf-Browse/s-10101/Ntk-AllTextSearchGroup?Ntt=windshield+washer+pump Once you know the current draw @ 12 V, you can probably find a $1.0...