While you guys were getting snow, I took the MG Midget out for it's first test drive. I needed a few clips installed on the new tonneau cover, so I figured why not bring the car out. These (legal) tires are terrible in the snow! haha.

Came home with a long list of things I need to attend to. For starters, the brake bleed is terrible. It might just be a bad front wheel bearing allowing the disc to push the pads back. The '63 Midget doesn't use taper wheel bearings, so you can't adjust for worn bearings. Seriously. How the British motoring industry made it out of the War era I'll never understand. Annnnyhow, I've got tapered bearings coming...but I have to figure out a shim solution because you can't setup the tapered bearings properly without shims. Argg.

The tach doesn't work, the speedo doesn't work, the driver's side heated seat is on all the time, and it has some other electrical gremlins. But it runs, drives, oil pressure and coolant temps were great!

It is gutless though. Wow is it gutless.

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My rear end is whirring. I checked my rotors and they were the same temp on both sides, so it's not a dragging rotor which Elements are prone too. I'm hoping its just a wheel bearing and not the rear diff. I've been Hooning around a lot this winter so I'll change the diff fluid first and see if that helps. Otherwise it's bearing time. Not a terrible job as I'll be installing upper adjustable control arms at the same time. Just have to wait for it to be not NOT -20 out.

Berz out.

Why don’t you jack up the rear end and spin the tires?

Well, I think I figured out the wheel bearing issue. Long story short, the outer wheel bearing was installed backwards. The inner race is width X (lets pick 3/4" as example dimension for discussion purposes). The outer race is 1/2 of X, say 3/8", and offset to one side. THUS, if the previous mechanic who replaced the wheel bearings puts the outer bearing in backwards, it will be 3/8" from bottom out on the step inside the hub. That means the hun as the potential of moving back and forth on the bearings which are tight...by about 3/8" of an inch. In my case, it was almost a 1/2" of side to side movement, walking on the bearings when I took the brake caliper off. :-O

If we ignore the potential wear between the outside of the bearing, and in inside of the hub, the outer bearing actually met the 'wear spec' in the manual for testing them. Hmmm. I can't measure the outside of the bearing, or inside of the hub accurately enough to determine if there was any wear, but I would suggest they reinstalled into the hub easier than I think they should have. Flipped the bearing around the correct way, reinstalled everything and got runout within spec. Going to give it a test drive later today to see if it fails again, but will be ordering the Moss taper bearing conversion kit regardless. What I really want to know, however, is how this wasn't a problem for the previous two owners (whom I know). Very strange. The only thing I can figure is the front left caliper, which I found to be seizing, wasn't doing anything...except holding the hub/disc in 'about' the correct location. Since I put a new caliper on, which could have the pads/pistons actually compressed, it allowed for the movement? Scary.

New hubs are $110usd, which might be a wise idea for the one side at least. Passenger side was installed correctly.

No adjustment Midget wheel bearing setup:
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Was the freewheeling calipers incredibly worn on one side or do
You think the caliper was literally pushing the wheel off it’s race each time the brake was applied? My brain can’t visialize it. Ha

Brake pads on the LF were definitely worn oddly. Caliper was the only thing holding the wheel from moving a full 1/2" side to side. My roadtest shortly will tell me if I've solved the issue...

The pain is real, the first pic is what my car has looked like since December:okay:

It warmed up enough (4 degrees) to wash the winter car for the first time in 3 months :fuckyea:

Today's job wasn't very mechanical but it was pretty rewarding. I installed a rear view camera and Nav system in it a couple of weeks ago and that had some pretty gory pics of the dash all pulled apart but I was kind of in the zone and totally forgot to take pics. I have a set of Hotchkis swaybars ready to install one of these weekends, I'm waiting to get an exhaust as the rear exhaust section has to come off to install the rear swaybar, want to avoid doing work twice.
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And because I like to test my marriage; another set of wheels for track and tires

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And it’s about time the SVT got an upgrade too, but not today

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give the old wheels some new chrome paint....it looks spectacular immediately

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Trying to plan out a kanjo inspired livery for the civic using the best tool ever

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LUL I used to this too

Finished building my ignition coil bracket. I find this looks way more “period correct,” then thenold one. Well as period correct as individual coils can look on a ‘70s car. Pretty happy. First welding project and first time working with stainless.

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Removed axles, removed outer bearing. Cleaned up and prepped for new bearings.

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The right rear which was making noise seemed almost new. The quiet one, left rear was definitely worn out. So even if I can’t fix the noise in the rear, atleast I know it was worth it on the left side!

15 years old German plastic begins to desolve and sticky...need some new vinyl wrap

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a bit of maintenance mixed with some go fast parts :) Mission Drag Strip here i come !

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After ordering these 6 months ago I finally installed them on my daily driver. Got sick of them sitting on my kitchen counter, and also, on Friday when I was driving in the rain, the old wipers were streaking badly and it felt very dangerous. On sunny days I didn't want to bother, on rainy days I said i couldn't do it...just broke down and did it. Funny how you can procrastinate something for half a year that takes 20 minutes.
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Swapped over the all seasons to the RS and washed both.

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Now have to figure out what tires to run on the SVT this summer. I have 205/50r17 and 215/40r17 but I think I want to run the correct 215/45r17

Bought a set of OG Silver 15x6.5 TE37 last week and mounted on new 205/50 RE71R this week. Just waiting for consistent temperatures before mounting.

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Washed and clayed the wife car. Decided to give beadmaker a try. The slick and shine that this product give is insane. I don't usually see my ceiling light bulbs that clear. Can't wait for it to rain and see how well the water bead off the car. Also ordered Meguiar's Hybrid Ceramic Wax yesterday. Will put on my other car once the product arrives.

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I applied the Hybrid Ceramic Wax to my Cayman a few weekends ago. Haven't been able to test it yet though. Where did you order yours? I had to get mine from the US.

I washed and waxed the daily driver yesterday and also cleaned up and sealed the headlights because they were slight hazy.

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After:
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I love the Black Garnet Pearl in the sun
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Got mine at https://www.carzilla.ca/meguiars-cal...id-ceramic-wax. However it sold out right now. Probably should had bought 2 bottles. Oh well

I cleaned the car inside and out, including a good Collinite treatment on the leather inside. Then I turned my attention to my Harley. I put it on the lift, pulled the rear apart and gave it an alignment. Feeling like getting more done, I put together my front inner fairing and decided to finish the LED swap. Originally, all the gauges and stereo were orange - which I really dislike. Getting the soldering iron to work, I swapped everything over to blue and made my needles red; it was tedious but not too difficult overall. The stereo I had done professionally from a shop in the US as it needs to be waterproof - but I also had them to add amp pre-outs and an internal bluetooth module that works with my handlebar controls.

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Buddy asked me to stretch some tires for him. Not really my thing but I obliged anyways.

185/60/14 on 9.5

Haha. A friend sent me a video of him doing that to a tractor tire in Ontario. You were much more calm.

Today’s vehicle, is an old ski boat my family bought. Previous owner changed the carb on it and it was missing a spacer to keep it level. With the added height of a spacer, the hood for the engine no longer closed. So last year I made one out of lumber. This winter I made a nicer one. First aluminum welding project. Not one bit of evidence remains as I ground every little bit of them off. Haha. Was a fun project. Building experience. Made out of 1.5” aluminum angle.

Pretty simple frame
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But it had this nasty corner.

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My little niece, and my wife are quite clumsy. Last thing I wanted was sometime stubbing a toe and bleeding all over the carpet. So I decided to round it off.

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Weird bracket holding shapes. This is where my lack of aluminum welding experience really sjowed it’s face. Gaps.

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All done

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