Topic: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?

[Kelly E]

Yesterday I figured out that the clutch slave cylinder and pushrod are shot. Today I ordered new ones plus a new set of windshield wipers. After that a new set of tires and I'm on the road.

[seanbarney41]

Since I have added 2 more bikes to my fleet yesterday I changed my insurance to Hagerty and now I can afford to insure all 5 bikes and my 72' MGB-GT full coverage and no deductibles. So today I resurrected the MGB. I pumped out the 7+ year old gas and cleared the lines. Then put in 10 gallons of fresh gas, pulled the choke, turned on the ignition, waited for the pump to stop and turned the key. It started right up like it had ran yesterday. I warmed it up and it still idles at 50psi fully warmed up.
I need to get the air out of the hydraulic clutch system. It has a high point in the factory system and is hard to bleed. Also it needs new tires before I can start driving the car.

Nice Kelly. My '72 GT  has been half restored for way too long. The girlfriend and I are bidding on a house in Michigan right now (Three Rivers for my MI friends) that has a 30'x30' garage with 10' walls that will be 95% mine (the house has an attached garage too). If it goes through (we are $60k over ask already, Michigan property is crazy right now) then hopefully by the end of February my MG and a couple motorcycle projects will be relocated to the shop from their various storage locations. I will install a lift and get to it.

Ohhh, that is cool Danny!  Hope you can make a deal!  If you do, I even promise not call you FIP! lol

[bear]

Well that's great news about the bike Brian, I'll look forward to going for a ride with you! Are you still in hospital due to the covid, or your other injuries? Keep pushing NDIS for the hand controls, it shouldn't matter whether you're driving a Canyonero, or a Camry......

I'm just back in hospital for couple of minor op's re my original injuries.
They are baulking at hand controls for the Cruiser because of the mileage. The Cruiser has 500'000km on it.

[ekpent]

Here's hoping you make it to Michigan Danny and get settled in to a nice place with your shop etc..  Good Luck !

[RAFster122s]

Well that's great news about the bike Brian, I'll look forward to going for a ride with you! Are you still in hospital due to the covid, or your other injuries? Keep pushing NDIS for the hand controls, it shouldn't matter whether you're driving a Canyonero, or a Camry......

I'm just back in hospital for couple of minor op's re my original injuries.
They are baulking at hand controls for the Cruiser because of the mileage. The Cruiser has 500'000km on it.

Bear, any way to pick up a newer vehicle they would be willing to install hand controls in, or is money for such a purchase not possible??
 I know how serious injuries and all the associated medical bills will devastate a bank account.
What would a newer vehicle with mileage they wouldn't baulk at run in your area?

Hope I am not being nosy.
My mom has to use hand controls after a mowing accident left her with a Ti rod instead of a right knee.
Getting a set of controls installed properly is costly and requires periodic (generally yearly) inspection and tune up.

[70CB750]

Yesterday I figured out that the clutch slave cylinder and pushrod are shot. Today I ordered new ones plus a new set of windshield wipers. After that a new set of tires and I'm on the road.

Never changed clutch slave cylinder, it must be job and a half.

[RAFster122s]

Clutch Slave cylinders aren’t really tough to install or bleed in my experience, just treat them like a caliper. Then adjust the rod according to the book.
Only difficult part of it is the location making you be under the vehicle and it is a two person job on a car if you cannot use a power bleeder on the clutch master cylinder.

Good luck with it Kelly.

Are they Lockheed or Girling units?

[Tintop]

Having changed more than 1 clutch slave, you definitely either need 2 people, or artificial help.  I've always used the 'pull through' air assisted bleeder, makes short work of the job.  Just make sure to keep checking the fluid in the clutch master.  Suck it dry & you start again!  I use to have a secondary reserve unit you could attach to the master to add volume.  It got permanently borrowed .

[BenelliSEI]

Not sure about an MGB but the ones in Austin Healey Sprites and MG Midgets were fun, buried up inside the trans tunnel of the main centre section! Access to the slave bleed nipple was through a tiny opening. We used to do up the hoses, wire the rod in place and bleed them hanging under the car. Then bolt them to the bell housing. I hope the “B” isn’t that tight.

[70CB750]

Clutch Slave cylinders aren’t really tough to install or bleed in my experience, just treat them like a caliper. Then adjust the rod according to the book.
Only difficult part of it is the location making you be under the vehicle and it is a two person job on a car if you cannot use a power bleeder on the clutch master cylinder.

Good luck with it Kelly.

Are they Lockheed or Girling units?

Thats what I meant, location and access.  My CJ7 has a bellcrank and that's simple and easy access.

[bear]

I'm just back in hospital for couple of minor op's re my original injuries.
They are baulking at hand controls for the Cruiser because of the mileage. The Cruiser has 500'000km on it.

Bear, any way to pick up a newer vehicle they would be willing to install hand controls in, or is money for such a purchase not possible??
 I know how serious injuries and all the associated medical bills will devastate a bank account.
What would a newer vehicle with mileage they wouldn't baulk at run in your area?

Hope I am not being nosy.
My mom has to use hand controls after a mowing accident left her with a Ti rod instead of a right knee.
Getting a set of controls installed properly is costly and requires periodic (generally yearly) inspection and tune up.

G'day David,
We have a couple of late model vehicles in the family, it's just that I prefer not to drive them.
I'm attached to my truck for good or ill. I've owned it since 2012 and it will always be a "work in progress".
I have never been able to buy something off the showroom floor and just drive it around, it's just not me.

As for medical bills and disability equipment, we have a tax payer funded medical system and what is called " The National Disability Insurance Scheme " that will help fund equipment like my hand controls.

As for being nosy it's all good. I'm not to precious about my condition. As I've said before I have been lucky enough to have raced motorcycles in one form or another since 1980, me drawing the short straw was always going to be on the cards I new that. I have lost many good mates over the years and just about all of them where a lot more talented than I ever was.

[Stev-o]

Had a shop day yesterday working on the "Ol' Chevy". 

Last time I drove it, went to a great car show, and lost nearly all brake pedal by the time I got home, not a good feeling. Checked the master cylinder and it was nearly empty, turns out my calipers were leaking. After much research, the Corvette forum is very good, this is a common problem.



So, it turns out the OEM calipers made by Delco, tend to have the "lip seals" leak when the car is not driven much.  The calipers themselves are good and I've always been happy with the brakes on this car, but Chevy stopped using this type of seal in '82.
 


There is a company in TX that remanufactures these calipers, they install a SS sleeve and use an "o-ring" seal rather than the lip seal, so all should be golden!  Not cheap but what is these days? 

[Kelly E]

It is a two man job to bleed the clutch. The slave cylinder replacement is easy, 2 bolts, 1 cotter pin and the hose. It's on the bottom right of the transmission on an MGB. I have a pneumatic brake bleeder but I'll be using a horse syringe to fill it from the slave cylinder. MG in it's infinite wisdom put a high point in the hard line right after the clutch master cylinder that is tucked in the drivers side rear corner of the engine compartment. You can see the clutch hard line going up behind the small reservoir.
Filling up the system from the slave pushes the air up and out of the high point and out of the master cylinder. My buddy will be looking into the master cylinder reservoir for fluid to appear in the bottom. When he sees fluid I can stop and close the bleeder valve. Then I'll top off the reservoir and check for a firm pedal.

[Bankerdanny]

Nice Kelly. My '72 GT  has been half restored for way too long. The girlfriend and I are bidding on a house in Michigan right now (Three Rivers for my MI friends) that has a 30'x30' garage with 10' walls that will be 95% mine (the house has an attached garage too). If it goes through (we are $60k over ask already, Michigan property is crazy right now) then hopefully by the end of February my MG and a couple motorcycle projects will be relocated to the shop from their various storage locations. I will install a lift and get to it.

Ohhh, that is cool Danny!  Hope you can make a deal!  If you do, I even promise not call you FIP! lol

Thanks Eric and Sean. The process has been such a pain. SW Michigan is hot, we've been outbid twice already both within 48 hours of the house being listed. We made our offer on the place less than 24 hours after listing. The house is great. Super well maintained and perfect for a couple. 10 wooded acres, no close neighbors, set pretty deep in the lot so when the leaves are out the house will be practically invisible from the road. But the sellers are asking to stay in the house up to 45 days after closing for free, to which we gave a big no, but we did offer 30 days for a nominal cost to the seller.. Bidding is supposed to be closed now and we should find out by tomorrow if we got it. Here's the inside of the shop space

[Kelly E]

He's going to need a month to clean out all of his crap

[ekpent]

He's going to need a month to clean out all of his crap

Big moving sale in somebodies future. Even though cluttered the building looks pretty clean. I see insulation and other goodies in your future Danny if you get the place.

[Bankerdanny]

He's going to need a month to clean out all of his crap

Big moving sale in somebodies future. Even though cluttered the building looks pretty clean. I see insulation and other goodies in your future Danny if you get the place.

Insulation and a 2 post lift.

[Tintop]

He's going to need a month to clean out all of his crap

Big moving sale in somebodies future. Even though cluttered the building looks pretty clean. I see insulation and other goodies in your future Danny if you get the place.

Insulation and a 2 post lift.

Did you include the Deer & it's attachments?  With 10 acres you'll need something like that.

[Stev-o]

He's going to need a month to clean out all of his crap

Big moving sale in somebodies future. Even though cluttered the building looks pretty clean. I see insulation and other goodies in your future Danny if you get the place.

Insulation and a 2 post lift.

Good luck to you Danny...place sounds like a dream

[ekpent]

He's going to need a month to clean out all of his crap

Big moving sale in somebodies future. Even though cluttered the building looks pretty clean. I see insulation and other goodies in your future Danny if you get the place.

Insulation and a 2 post lift.

Did you include the Deer & it's attachments?  With 10 acres you'll need something like that.

+1 on that !

[Kelly E]

Today the new slave cylinder for the MGB/GT arrived. Because of the way the last one failed I took the new one apart and I'm glad I did. There was a bunch of grey pastey grit in it, you can see it on the rag. After I cleaned it up I had to smooth out the front edge of the piston because it was very sharp. Once I got the piston deburred and clean I lubed the seal with red brake grease and the side in front of the seal with SylGlide. I'll be filling up the system from the slave cylinder bleeder valve to get the air out of the high point in the hard line when my buddy gets here.

[BenelliSEI]

Today the new slave cylinder for the MGB/GT arrived. Because of the way the last one failed I took the new one apart and I'm glad I did. There was a bunch of grey pastey grit in it, you can see it on the rag. After I cleaned it up I had to smooth out the front edge of the piston because it was very sharp. Once I got the piston deburred and clean I lubed the seal with red brake grease and the side in front of the seal with SylGlide. I'll be filling up the system from the slave cylinder bleeder valve to get the air out of the high point in the hard line when my buddy gets here.

Kelly.....just have to ask. What’s in a can of “Cougar Gold”?

[Kelly E]

Today the new slave cylinder for the MGB/GT arrived. Because of the way the last one failed I took the new one apart and I'm glad I did. There was a bunch of grey pastey grit in it, you can see it on the rag. After I cleaned it up I had to smooth out the front edge of the piston because it was very sharp. Once I got the piston deburred and clean I lubed the seal with red brake grease and the side in front of the seal with SylGlide. I'll be filling up the system from the slave cylinder bleeder valve to get the air out of the high point in the hard line when my buddy gets here.

Kelly.....just have to ask. What’s in a can of “Cougar Gold”?

It's really good cheese made at Washington State University. My friend Paul that I build bikes with went to school there and buys it all the time plus the cans are really handy.

[BenelliSEI]

Today the new slave cylinder for the MGB/GT arrived. Because of the way the last one failed I took the new one apart and I'm glad I did. There was a bunch of grey pastey grit in it, you can see it on the rag. After I cleaned it up I had to smooth out the front edge of the piston because it was very sharp. Once I got the piston deburred and clean I lubed the seal with red brake grease and the side in front of the seal with SylGlide. I'll be filling up the system from the slave cylinder bleeder valve to get the air out of the high point in the hard line when my buddy gets here.

Kelly.....just have to ask. What’s in a can of “Cougar Gold”?

It's really good cheese made at Washington State University. My friend Paul that I build bikes with went to school there and buys it all the time plus the cans are really handy.

Thanks..... great name!

[HondaMan]

"What did I do...?".
I ignored the "Oil Change Required" message on my Explorer's console, and just pressed the "Reset Oil Life to 100%" button to tell it to shut up.
It's less than 10 degrees out there!