Thursday! Tomorrow is our shop Christmas party!
Both of my sons came in to help out today but Andrew called in sick with the flu -- and he had a Calculus III exam at a local college this evening. I sure hope it went well for him!
The young guys were successful in getting the TF right down to nearly nothing. Only the dash remained as I took this picture. The petrol tank and radiator went out for cleaning/repair this afternoon.
Casey finished witht he 1964 MGB overdrive project and turned it over to me. He then began a complete lubrication on the 1977 MGB which has not had a complete lube in 13 years. We performed one of our production restorations on this car about 15 years ago. It still looks pretty good.
Curt spent the day with the TR6 and is, here, remove the cam from the engine.
Mark contined to make progress ont he 1979 MGB LE. Note that the RR dogleg is removed in this picture, as well as the entire RH sill.
I worked, on and off, all day on this rack and pinion for a 1959 MGA Twin Cam. It has turned out to be a very nice looking, and very fine working piece!
At technical time I had quie a flurry of phone calls. One fellow was chasing a 1962 MGA Mark II Deluxe about which I had some knowledge and was happy to provide particulars. Another owner called from Ann Arbor asking for some hints on what to do to start up a 1979 MGB from Texas which he wants to wake from a 10 year nap. Another fellow who claimed to be 6'2" and 300 lbs was interested in buying a 1965 Midget and wanted to know some things -- but I tried to talk him out of the deal because of his size -- Look at an MGB! I told him. A fellow member of the BMTA called enquiring after windscreen glass and fitting. I referred him to Bruce who has fitted more MGB windscreens than anyone but the factory.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Anything that can work silently, without human input is a wonderful thing. One of the guys told me he'd read about removing rust by reverse electroplating. So we make up this container with sheet metal about the circumference as the anode and an MGA master cylinder bracket as the cathode and tried to get that bracket clean. This thing bubbled and hissed all day -- drawing 25 amps for more than several hours. Conclusion? Use the sandblaster!
