Thread: 51 MG restoration.

Beauty fall night so took the misses out for a nice mid week dinner in Noddy.
Colours are just starting. Gonna be a nice fall I hope.
Cheers men,

Glad you are enjoying it, Mike! I drug my Tiger out of a 2 year slumber and it runs like it always has. Gotta give it a full detail. My Cuda is almost there.
Our Fall will last 2 weeks here, so I need to get things rocking!

Nice to see the Cuda back on her wheels. Lookin good Tom!.
Think I’m going to pull the trigger on the 5 spd kit from Moss so I can perform that final upgrade over the winter.
Then, to start lookin for the next project.. hehehe
Maybe sumtin like this..

Get it on! I, for one, am at my limit. These things will own YOU if you are not careful (or extremely rich).
This Cuda is the most labor intensive and costly thing I have owned. Might be selling something soon!
Gonna happen sooner or later...

Amen to that. I wish I had all the money back I spent on cars...of course I wish I had the cars back also...at least most of them.

Compliment received kind of after dinner the other night.
I get home and on Facebook I see the restaurant changed their profile pic on facebook.
Their new pic below.

Think they owe me a dozen cookies. Ye know,,royalties. Lol.

Pulled the trigger on the 5 spd conversion kit so I’ll be pulling the power train one more time this winter.
Seems to have shuddering now in the mid throttle range which I think might be the clutch. Other symptoms are it is right up at the top of the peddle when she pulls in and frankly, I never separated the halves since ownership so have no idea of the condition.
I do know the clutch was seized to the flywheel after the resto and I had to jack up the rear end and use the brakes while running to break her free.
Besides, I already bought the donor celica 5 spd so was already in for half the job.
I may end up pulling the intake and having a Vv job done to clean up my compression across the 4. Cylinder 1 is at 130 PSI to the 170 across the other three.
May also rebuild the bottom end a bit to replace front and rear seals to modern design.
Would be nice to be the only drip free TD in the area.
Maybe after this, I’ll say I’m done..

If you keep on with this way of thinking you will Never Be Done!

LOL.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Pulled the trigger on the 5 spd conversion kit so I’ll be pulling the power train one more time this winter.
Seems to have shuddering now in the mid throttle range which I think might be the clutch. Other symptoms are it is right up at the top of the peddle when she pulls in and frankly, I never separated the halves since ownership so have no idea of the condition.
I do know the clutch was seized to the flywheel after the resto and I had to jack up the rear end and use the brakes while running to break her free.
Besides, I already bought the donor celica 5 spd so was already in for half the job.
I may end up pulling the intake and having a Vv job done to clean up my compression across the 4. Cylinder 1 is at 130 PSI to the 170 across the other three.
May also rebuild the bottom end a bit to replace front and rear seals to modern design.
Would be nice to be the only drip free TD in the area.
Maybe after this, I’ll say I’m done..

And the Money Train continues.......

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Pulled the trigger on the 5 spd conversion kit so I’ll be pulling the power train one more time this winter.
Seems to have shuddering now in the mid throttle range which I think might be the clutch. Other symptoms are it is right up at the top of the peddle when she pulls in and frankly, I never separated the halves since ownership so have no idea of the condition.
I do know the clutch was seized to the flywheel after the resto and I had to jack up the rear end and use the brakes while running to break her free.
Besides, I already bought the donor celica 5 spd so was already in for half the job.
I may end up pulling the intake and having a Vv job done to clean up my compression across the 4. Cylinder 1 is at 130 PSI to the 170 across the other three.
May also rebuild the bottom end a bit to replace front and rear seals to modern design.
Would be nice to be the only drip free TD in the area.
Maybe after this, I’ll say I’m done..

Originally Posted by Johntoad57

And the Money Train continues.......

Sorry, I just couldn't resit---