Sid did you get the heater core swapped on the Vee Dub?

Not yet.... Its supposed to be here tomorrow... Fixing to roll that way in moms Corolla. :(

Gunna go to Dumonts and get the bolts for my car and then go pick up dive gear and then IDK what until 7.....

I sent you an email. Come hang at my house before the meeting.

Hanging out at glens house. Survived okc traffic. Good thing the corolla doubles as a race car

I'm telling your mommy

My mommy knows how I drive...


Procured the bolts to fix the Porsche.... Going to fix it tomorrow....

good evening, gentlemen.

Some little bastid got my hopes all up... Left me a VM about the VW while I was in the PCA meeting.... Call him back... He wants to know if I will take 2 payments of 2k or 2k and an '01 Ducati..... I said sorry.... Wait 2 weeks and get the 4k and call me back.... I would LOOOVE to have a bike.... Just not right now and definitely not a Duc right now....

which ducati?

He didn't say.... I'm betting it was rough though... Idk I may call him tomorrow and ask him... If its a 3k bike I will take the deal and dump it... I've got a Duc buyer....

i am betting it is a monster. any takers?

I bet so.... Hes stationed in Hell... I mean Ft. Sill.... So probably a bargin bin Duc... Nothing interesting....


Now if he'd said Triumph Daytona.... I woulda been in a world of hurt....

bah, an 800SS or 1000ss, or 848 or 851 or 907ie.....

Morning guys!!
Separated tranny and engine yesterday, removed some sheetmetal.
Head temp sensor is giving me stress though, it's screwed in very tightly (or has become so over the years) and its hex bolt portion is not accesible with an ordinary spanner.... Not without damaging the fins anyway.... Tonight I'm adapting a ringspanner so it goes over the wire of the sensor and over the hex portion.... (a bit like a crows foot spanner) It'll come out, trust me....

can't you just leave the sensor, and just take the heads off first?

the sensor wire passes through the sheetmetal through a rubber grommet and on the other end is the connector that is attached to a metal bracket (which was attached on the intake runner on the left side).
The proper and quickest way would be to unscrew the sensor. Otherwise I'll be stuck with the same problem later.... and the cylinderhead and sheetmetal would have to stay together until I get the sensor out. (or I'd have to take the bracket in which the connector is fixed, apart... and I don't want to do that... too much hassle)

in the Bentley manual it says that you have to remove some levers from the underside of the tranny (also to disconnect clutch of course). I didn't do that cause I didn't deem it necessary...
Turns out it damn well is... in order to seperate tranny from engine....
Luckily you can work your way around that by removing the startmotor and unscrewing the 9 allen bolts that go into the flywheel.... otherwise I would be fuched,....proper fuched...

Ok guys news on the car front... the 951 is 3 hours away and the owner is in another state right now so I just have to go look at it where it sits... Eff that... If I can't drive.... I can't buy....

Morning, guys.

morning Doc