drdoom

Mclaren for the win. Adios MV, it's been special.

Word of thanks both to @Trunnion 74 and @Lozza74 for the clever ideas concerning the wiper guide tube. I'd refreshed my wiper drive in the course of a deep Esprit restoration and found the resulting sound of the rack in tube a bit troubling. These notions give me renewed optimism. Cheers

Do locking nuts on exhaust manifolds present a problem in that they clasp too firmly on the studs? I'd expect some unintended stud extractions might occur.

Whom ???

Troubling lesson in the limitations inherent in democracy. America's got a cohort of very wealthy creeps who misuse media disgracefully.

Quite sure I stayed well short of 180 C.

She has yet to be annointed by any other than Biden, I'll bide my time before getting invested in how Harris can present herself well enough to get the job done.

This . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification Also, as routinely viewed on a neighbour lady's car bumper sticker: It's Been Lovely But I Have To Scream Now

Curious as to availability for G-body N/A manifold and system.

The beading tool I purchased on Amazon claimed to cover diameters down to 5/8" however something clearly was lost in translating pipe versus tubing, as it would not fit into the tubing on account of wall thickness. So damned close but " no cigar!" My hub carriers were warmed in the BBQ, FWIW, and the freezer chilled bearing/shaft assemblies just plopped into place. Be careful not to go too high in heating as the alloy will go off temper if the temperature exceeds something like 300F, IIRC.

Try Ditzler PPG 27339, or equivalent, for "Lotus Gold" A04.

Daring here to offer advice I've found that heat alone would not render the AL amenable to being wrought. On the other hand heating and quenching did indeed take the temper well down from the T6 as purchased, permitting beading the 32mm without stress cracks found after treating the as bought tubing solely with heat. Have yet to source my solution for beading the heater transfer pipe tubing, passed on bending the main coolant pipes leaving the direction changes to silicone elbows. Enjoying SOUP greatly!

Out for a lovely cycle earlier today and spotted a pickup truck with the slogan " Resist Tyrants " festooned on the tailgate. A local example of life for the hard of thinking. Unimaginative f&*kwits with a vastly outsized sense of their own intellectual capacity, the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action.

On the bright side, perhaps the nicked ear may have sparked the tiniest bit of humanity in that vacant lot of a soul. As to America's propensities for violence they have at least well served our common interests in their role as world cop, at considerable expense it may be said. Hurry the day that the good people of the USA reconnect with their better natures, it is a fundamentally well constructed society in many ways, and populated largely by good folk. We should all aspire to mutually contribute in shoring up against the worst systems elsewhere. I'm relieved that it was a Republican, pitiful though he was, who took the shots as this would be so much worse had the violence been the work of a Lefty extremist.