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    Long Overdue Progress! Making New Door Panels 12/8/24

    you can find the pictures of them for sure (MOSS catalog), they do a pretty good job of showing the illustrations. i dont know if they stock them or not. certainly pictures of the, choke cable, accelerator cables carb linkages, pull starter, heater controls and heater boxes will show the...
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    Long Overdue Progress! Making New Door Panels 12/8/24

    the british cars use them for all sorts of applications and you can find them with different bracketry on them one even is even like a barrel bolt to go on a 1/8" round shaft with the cable coming out the other end. and used for all the controls on the heater. defrotster heater box, choke...
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    Long Overdue Progress! Making New Door Panels 12/8/24

    yes they are used in british sports cars all the time let me find a link dorman part number 03336
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    Long Overdue Progress! Making New Door Panels 12/8/24

    thats really clever, will there be any mechanical attachments or just the magnets?
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    1958 MGA Coupe

    thats what we call BINGO and added the welsh plug with some gasket sealant around it and badda bing badda boom and done!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS everyone
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    1958 MGA Coupe

    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
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    1958 MGA Coupe

    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
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    1958 MGA Coupe

    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...
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    1999 F250 superduty 4x4

    yes and yes, you know you are in deep shit when the cold beers out of the refrigerator are warmer then the ambient temp.
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    1999 F250 superduty 4x4

    and that top spring must be above the inner spring with coil side up, or it hits the hub it was freaking cold
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    1999 F250 superduty 4x4

    all right i dont want you to think i am getting weak and lazy in my old age, (disregard all the work is being done by my son) we finally got the steering gear and other parts in and we put the new steering gear in, center drag link, tie rod end and steering dampner in. we pulled the camper off...
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    Long Overdue Progress! Making New Door Panels 12/8/24

    thats nice , how are you going to hold it all in place?
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    Long Overdue Progress! Making New Door Panels 12/8/24

    it will be interesting to see if you can remove the scratch with your products , or if you are just polishing the inside of the scratch. i never had any luck removing the scratch just in the polishing of the inside of the scratch to make it less noticeable.
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    1958 MGA Coupe

    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...
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