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  1. 2 hours ago, Horn Draoi said:

    That is a beautiful little car, but they were intended for spirited drives on low-traffic roads or I guess maybe track use; I know, I have a wonderful Miata reserved for Hill Country zoom-zoom.  Makes me anxious to drive it into Austin or DFW cell phone obsessed/weaving 18-wheeler traffic.  Hope your paint job is perfection!

    I drove my first one for 10 years - five as primary car. Sold it and bought a Miata in 1990.

  2. 9 hours ago, Modessit said:

    What shop are you using and what did they quote you? My Spider is similar in size and I'm looking at options.

    Using a classic shop in Holland Michigan. Quote is around 20K which is huge but it includes a lot of body work before painting. I probably could have saved a few grand by doing it locally but I didn;t know anyone and in this case the people doing the restoration know the shops and have complete control of the process

  3. On 2/27/2023 at 5:26 PM, Armybrat said:

    Only the 2nd MGA I have seen on the road in Round Rock since we moved up here 28 years ago. Unusual customized configuration. A throwback to an early 1955 racer.

     

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    You have to be kinda crazy to drive at anything resembling speed limit with that racing windscreen.

    In other news my MGA is somewhere in the body shop getting prepped for paint

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  4. 1 hour ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    I have a hard time imagining Auburn is getting Florida along with Bama and UGA.  That's rough.

    Until the early 90's with 2 divisions that was what Auburn had every year almost back/back/back.  Auburn, Georgia and Florida played a mini round robin starting Halloween every year. Auburn got Florida then Georgia, someone for homecoming and then Alabama. Coach Dye called it Amen Corner

  5. On 1/29/2023 at 9:46 AM, TexPx said:


    Changing the water pump on a ‘79 Ford Fiesta in a bank Parking lot off I35 in August was a miserable experience.

    Changing the water pump on a 73 Vega on the side of the road was unbelievably easy. hardest part was waiting for Dad to show up with new pump

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  6. On 1/18/2023 at 6:27 PM, blacklab said:

    Changed the oil on the FJ today.

    Great job by the toyota engineers.

    Go from:

    • unscrew one plastic thing
    • rub a little oil on the new one
    • screw it on

    To:

    • take off rock shield
    • take off little metal flat piece
    • shove plastic piece in to housing and spray oil everywhere
    • get special tool and take off housing and spray oil everywhere
    • drain and clean housing
    • replace gasket on housing
    • put filter in housing
    • screw housing in
    • replace gasket on outside of housing
    • put metal piece back in place
    • replace rock shield

     

    You forgot the important step - the plastic housing breaks in half.. I have a spare on the shelf for that reason :)

  7. On 1/10/2023 at 9:07 PM, blacklab said:

    Went to Tahoe last week to ski. While standing at the little office in the parking garage an employee pulled up in a 4runner.

    Lady asked me if I wanted the 4runner or ... and I cut her off and said 4runner.

    It was absolutely the best thing I have ever driven in the snow/ice. Never a hint of spinning wheels or getting squirlley. On the way down the hill one night I was behind a jeep and keeping 50 or so feet behind it. The jeep and the car ahead of it both started fishtailing as they were approaching a corner. I softly applied the breaks and the ABS kicked in and we stayed in a strait line. The car behind me started fishtailing and ended up in the snowbank across the road, missing me by inches.

    Another time we were going up the hill and behind a small car with chains. Dumbass driver slowed down too much going up the hill and started spinning his tires. He ended up having to turn around. I had no issues starting from a dead stop and easily made it up the hill.

    I now know what I'm going to get if we move up there and the FJ kicks the bucket. Also curious how much of the tech in the 2023 4runner is different than a 2012 FJ. I know toyota slow rolls a lot of stuff. 

     

    I guess they fixed the traction control software. I had one as  rental about ten years ago and it would not move from a flat parking space. My 01 was a big improvement over the early 3Gen's. Someone on the forum described traction control as "Toyota decided they wanted to kill every driver of 4Runner so they added traction control and ABS"

  8. The Midget was what the name implied. No clue why British Leyland decided to make a smaller MG than the MGB. It was about 10% smaller in general and really had no redeeming qualities. 

  9. Finally getting ready to send to paInt shop.  It's being worked on in north Michigan since the shop specializes in British cars. I posted a while back but it's been in the family since 1980 but sat under a deck for almost 20 years. I got it from my brothers estate and it needed everything mechanical and a lot of body work. On and off for 2-3 years and getting near the end. Keep learning things about it - someone before 1980 had run the front end into something and that took a lot of sheet metal work. Dad painted it in early 80's but never totally fixed the front end damage. Also apparently someone switched some of the rims. Had correct 1962 rims on rear and incorrect 1955+ rims on front. No clue why. The two are very similar though

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  10. Very fancy but good grief. You would need to be a small business to recover the cost of that setup. My setup might be 15 bucks - rubber holder for shaft, knife blade and large glass container to recapture solvent. I think I mentioned that I once did my woods in a Residence Inn hotel room with a kitchen knife

  11. 2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

     

    yeah, that was me. some news station in lubbock published it without hornfans attribution or attributing it to me at all.

    looking back, i might have written it a bit differently, but i was younger. 

    and a much better writer. jesus.

    found the news station in lubbock, they still got it! haha.

    https://www.kcbd.com/story/2463125/so-i-met-coach-leach-in-honolulu/

    and pos rep for saving that GD photo. i have no idea where the hell a copy of that might be.

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    he was such a gentleman and was keen to talk my ear off, like many of the stories in this thread - that was him, it wasn't a put on. i met him for, what, 10 - 15 minutes of my life, and i'll never forget the impression he made on me - not just the skimmer and the hat, but just how much time he had for me to discuss football, the museum we were in, etc. i never want to be that guy who takes people away from their family, but he never made me feel weird for talking to him. he made me feel weirder for ending the conversation - like he had so much more to be said and he actually wanted to say it to me. like i was that important in that minute, even though he didn't know me from the museum lady hollering at him, but he didn't care.

    i dunno - i will say that experience, as trivial as it was and makes for a funny story, did change the way i thought about things in a way, and made me more closely follow the dude through his career.

    they always say never meet your heroes, but he wasn't my hero when i met him. he was just a coach that was kind of quirky and annoying because his teams were always a pain in the ass. but he was a presence. and we are all now lesser that he's gone. rip, coach. 

    No idea why I saved a single photo from 18 years ago but I am glad I did. Was thinking how to use it in the thread when someone else asked. Kinda shows the power of Surly. One person had the text and another the photo.

    There was another photo a little later I really wish I had. Someone else ran into Leach at a museum in Key West  and had a really cool picture of him sitting in a pirate chair staring down the camera. That photo would be perfect now

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  12. 8 minutes ago, AUinHsv said:

    I think so. I saved the picture. It was described as a ridiculous long pole and correct

    tried to edit but time had expired so reposting for background. On the sub at Pearl his son's hat blew off. Leach walked past the security people and rummaged in a storage are for the pole with a net and then walked past them again to fish the hat out. Basically Leach being Leach and marching to his own drum

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  13. On 12/3/2022 at 5:54 PM, Gil Bang said:

    Vega's were a horrible design.  Aluminum pistons, aluminum block.  Seizeville.

     

    My buddy had a fiat spider.  Even in Socal, it rusted like a motherfucker.  You could look down at the floor and see the road. 

    Not exactly correct. I got 125K on my Vega without issues. The design issue was aluminum block without steel sleeves for piston. Any temperature issues warped it. Dad bought several for 100 bucks or so and sleeved the engine and they ran fine after. Delorean's book said the beancounters removed the steel sleeves. However the body rust issue was real. They learned the hard way that certain metals rust when touching - like the clips holding trim on. However any mid 70's car was a mess as they tried to go from horsepower to fuel economy overnight

    The Vega was fine for me. Also had 2 Fiats which were not fine. We also had a couple of Corvairs which were fine since they were after 1964.

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  14. 15 minutes ago, Jasper_Jester said:

    Please do not edit this.

     

    Note: I would prefer to be the only QB that has won a superb owl vs one of so many that have won super bowls

    Actually laughed at it and then remembered that Super Bowl is trademarked so you can't use it in advertising. Wonder if you could trademark Superb Owl?

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  15. Love the old eye2's but after 30 years there have been a few changes. Most of the big gains are in woods but irons have enough for you to look at. First you get a lot of shaft choices. You mentioned reshafting the Pings but the original clubs had 2 or 3 at best. Second - everyone is now going to stronger lofts and shaft length. Your old 7 iron is now 8 or 9 iron.  Third - eye2's were famous for heel/toe weighting but newer clubs have really tweaked it.

  16. 1 minute ago, AUinHsv said:

    If you use the vice make sure you get the hard rubber insert to hold the club. Otherwise you just dented the shaft. That scraper works well. For some reason every Callaway club I have regripped in the last 20 years has industrial strength factory grip tape. No clue why Callaway uses such strong stuff

     

  17. On 11/4/2022 at 3:21 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    Vice or golf clamp makes it easier but ive regripped a single club or putter standing up. Very easy 

    hook utility knife is nice but regular one works good enough. The worst is the old grips just caked on the shaft, and having to scrape that entire grip off. 12 or 13 times 

    If you use the vice make sure you get the hard rubber insert to hold the club. Otherwise you just dented the shaft

  18. 7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:


    Great feel, love the more tapered design. Yes, they last a very long time 

    Find one of these or something similar, makes the job much easier 

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    get two way tape. One long piece over the end and as close to the bottom of the grip as you can get. Do you a have a vice or set up ? Align the club head square. 

    Finger over the grip hole. Fluid and flip / spread inside. Pour over tape. I always used plenty of fluid. Align grip before slipping on, be quick. Slide on and final align. Don’t diddle daddle. Get it on and square it up asap 

    Also get the hooked knife blade to cut the old one off. Man I miss Golfsmith for stuff like this. I actually did all my woods once with a steak knife in a Residence Inn room. Wasn't too bad except for not having a vice

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  19. 5 hours ago, blacklab said:

    Yeah, I think I like buying tools to do the work more than actually doing the work. 

    For the transfer and diif make sure you check what the plugs are and have the right tools. On my 01 4Runner the front diff has a screwy hex plug. You use a hex wrench adapter and it's an absolute pain. No clue what the idiot engineer was thinking except all the other plugs use a socket so I have to choose something totally different. You can't any leverage unless you get it off the ground. Breaker bar just hits the ground or is lost in the frame.  And of course make sure you can get the fill plug out before pulling the drain plug :) Only forgot that once and it took a lot of work to fix

     

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