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Me either! I've never had one do this either!

 

It was sitting on those stands, which he leveled out using the lasers in the machine. Made it very easy to reach all the adjusters!

 

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out - it's not show car quality, but it looks good and all the little bumps and rusty spots are fixed with new metal.

However, it's been eating coolant - I can't find anything wet and it's not leaving spots but it's def going thru water. I smell coolant on the left side where the radiator is but can't find any leaks. I may have to pull the damn head - with only three weeks till we leave for South Dakota Ima need to hustle on this. I also have to install the trailer hitch on the Audi tow vehicle and wire it for trailer lights.

 

Someone with a lathe and a mill could have done a better job, but it came out OK.....

 

We did a run with the local MG club a few weeks ago and during the drive a weird thing happened - I felt like I was sitting on a balloon that was slowly deflating, and eventually it felt like my butt was down in a 5 gallon bucket!

I figured out what had happened - the seat diaphragm that supports the foam had split. Sure enough, I pulled the seat out and that's exactly what happened. I ordered a new one from Spares and pulled the seat out, removed the top half and set about doing the repair.



First I had to remove the seat bottom cover - I was told the foam would be glued to the frame but it wasn't, so once I got all the clips out the cover and foam lifted right off giving me access to the diaphragm.




I was afraid I was going to have to make a tool to stretch the rubber enough to get the spring clips into their holes but I clamped the seat in my bench vise and used a hook tool and about all the muscles I could muster and managed to get it all done.





Then assembly is just the reverse as they say. Turned out fine and I'll be happy to have a comfy seat for this weekend's drive to Ozarks International for the vintage sports car races.

 

You caught that, eh?

He just jacked it up in the rear then we removed the rear ones and drove down off the front ones...