Archive for July, 2009

Events

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

This past weekend the Indy had come and gone.  It appeared to be successful once again (at least from the standpoint of someone who didn’t go).  We have the Tofield car show coming up on August 3rd, Rock’N'August from the 4th to the 9th, a set of garage tours on the 22nd as well as a very tentative fun run on the 16th.

I can’t make it out to meetings or ice cream runs anymore but I can cut my losses and go to Friday lunches at the 99th Street Diner.  See you there!

 

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Clutch Replacement

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

I picked up a car on June 25th for a good deal, and had a blast with it until the afternoon of the 27th when the clutch disintegrated into several pieces while on the highway.  Fortunately, a local shop in town had the clutch, pressure plate, and release bearing in stock and for a pretty reasonable price.  I bought the pieces ASAP and had a couple friends help me work on pulling it apart this past Wednesday.  We took our time working on the car.  All in all, including a couple of hours trying to figure out how we were going to get one of the driveshafts out and having food, it was out within approximately 6 hours.

Friday night Chris came over and we got the freshly machined flywheel, clutch, and pressure plate up as well as replacing the release bearing.  Yesterday I had another friend of mine over to help out.  We re-aligned the clutch a couple of times and up went the transmission (and down a few times too).  Hopefully I can get it in today and have the car up and running for the week so I have plenty of time to break in the clutch.