1958 MGA Coupe

some short back ground is needed, about 12 years ago my buddy Jeff S had an extra crew ticket for Lime Rock race track in Ct. the race track was about 45 mins or so away from my home town, where I would go back to visit my parents frequently. so over the course of the next several years i would plan trips to coincide with Lime Rock race events to hang out with Jeff . That lead to going to Watkins Glenn in 2014 with Jeff where I met Eric R. in person and bunch of the other NAMGAR people. As nature tooks its course my trips up north ended. However lucky for me Summit Point Motor sports park is just an hour away and located near by two adult sons.


So some conversations between Eric R and Jeff S lead us to this. My sons joined me at the Summit Point race track with the camper beast (a F250 superduty 4x4 lifted 7.3 diesel) this is the truck we replaced the steering gear, ties rode ends, drag link steering dampner in. it was set up as a high desert camper in Missoula Mt and we brought it east this past summer





the view out the back window




this lead to some light crew activities






which lead to some nice pictures a good time and a beautiful Mark 2 as a pace car








VRG hosted a chili party and the view in and out of the camper









we had a blast.
 
SuperBuickGuy said:
pretty darn cool
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There was one particularly funny moment when the racers we were helping out asked my sons what cars they grew up with and would race since all the cars they were racing are from their generation and they grew up with them, my son looked at them and said I grew up with corvettes and these car's. Made me a proud dad!!! I did my job. in fact in my avatar the young guy next to me is my older son in the race day pictures
 
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pulling my sons axle motivated me for todays work, so if we can pull that big ass F250 axle out how hard could it be to R/R my rear wire wheel hub.

so the ladies were going to Georgetown to do some shopping and my moment of opportunity was upon me. definitely a fat cat today in the heated garage.


so easy work getting the wheel off the runway and wheel off. only one wheel is on a jack stand so the axle is tilted







a couple of machine screws in hub and its pulled off the axle hub





pulling out is no problem every thing looked good



 
next is pulling welch plug i drilled it off center but i should have drilled it in the middle, off center my screw slide hammer didnt work so i mig welded a bolt to it and pulled it off






next came measuring the axle to the hub and pressing it out




 
and the pressing part a 20 ton press, I used an impact socket to get the depth i needed.






then it was cleaning it up dressing/deburring the end of the axle splines and re pressing it in place




 
well I have been putting this task off too long, some where along the way I realized that i had my facet cube pump installed in the worst off all positions with the inlet on top and the out put on the bottom. the car ran great the pump was very clicky so it was not high on my redo list. But today was the day


heres the worst possible way to have these oriented , i must have missed that part of the installation instructions






so todays effort figure out how to reorient it and make a new bracket.

disconnect everything







mock up a new orientation and make a template for the new bracket













16 gauge steel , i used a contour sander to clean up the sheet steel before cutting it





 
bobs77vet said:
no leaks and it much quieter then before!!!
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Nice work Bob! Gave me pause to think about how mine is oriented in my Midget, but while the inlet is slightly higher than the outlet the flow is mostly horizontal. Mine is pretty noisy too, but I always just figured that's the way they are. I can't hear it over the exhaust once it's fired up anyway...
 

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