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I have been a long time getting to this. Been out of work lately with a bad knee. I have knee surgery scheduled for Thursday, so I treid to finish up all that I had hanging for now on the midget. I managed to get the exhaust pipe put on today. All one piece from the manifold to the end past the diffeential that you see in the picture. I am anxious to test it out and see if all my modifications actually work. My worst worry is vibration from the flywheel that I converted myself for the datsun 5 speed conversion. Plus I want to see if the rear end whines with the new gears in it. Alas, it will have to wait until this knee gets better and then I have a shoulder surgery coming as soon as the knee is done. I'm ready to hear it fire up. I will keep it a straight pipe for the test out.
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Hooo boy, good luck on your knee.
 
Good luck with your surgeries, hopefully that dream of driving your Midget will keep you motivated through the painful bits.
 
Good luck with the work on the knee....I love the color under the tail of your car!
 
Good luck, looks good!! I hope that pipe doesn't bang the axle on bump rebounds!
 
I note two things, all that color is supose to be black, not a big deal.

The emer brake rod that is going just above the new exhaust pipe is supost to be straight. Just might effect your brake operation as the curve will make it a bit short.
 
bugimike said:
Good luck, looks good!! I hope that pipe doesn't bang the axle on bump rebounds!
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I don't think it will. The straps are tight right now. The tank is empty, no boot lid, top, etc. Oh, and I painted everyting underneath a light color after blasting and repairing it so that it will be easier to tell where any leaks are coming from. I'll check on that e-brake line. I might have bent it hanging the pipe.
 
Thanks for all the good words about my knee surgery. I cleaned and wire wheeled the muffler and tailpipe (monza) and then painted it all but the chrome tips with a black high heat paint. Just something to try and keep my mind off it all. Tomorrow morning is the surgery and I can't even have a beer now to calm down. I have to convince my wife to finsh with the furniture she has in the basement before I can try and fire it up. The weather turned nice now and it would be a good time to start it up.
 
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Ok.much has transpired since my last post. Made it through surgery but had to wait in the ops station for 2 hours until I could move back into an outpatient station to be released. After the first IV injection I was a gonner. Woke up in that area where I left. He found the problem and removed some cartilage, but it was a bad tear and I will not be allowed to bear weight on it for weeks. I must remain on this orthosis machine for 2hours three times a day. My mom and wife were both there and when I got out but were not able to see me until I got back into the outpateint thing. The Nurse said that the doctor talked to me but I don't remeber anything about it. He told my wife and mom all about it, but I prefer my info staright from the source. Anyway, it turns out that I have to be on this machine that continually flexes my knee joint. My mom tells the doc,"I have one of those" and she did (got it at a yard, estate sale or something). The doc was freaked out by this and asked her to describe it and that is the machine. Indeed, I am on it now. Thanks again for all the encouragement guys. I see the doc again on Tuesday, but will call him today and ask some more questions. I am very debilitated at the moment. Percosets are my friend.
 
Good deal, not fun at all and I speek as one with a complete knee replacement. However, this too shall pass and you will be pleased with the result.
 
Good to hear you made it to the other side. Rest well, you've got a Spridget waiting for you when you feel better.
 
I'm feeling a bit better today and talked to the doc on the phone and spent 4 hours on the machine already. Doc said it ok to use crutches, just don't put full weight on it. I'm think of going down in my basement this evening and just looking around a bit. Two thinks I am missing from my dash that I am redoing are the little crome dot pointer thing for the heater air flow control and the blue dot lamp holder for the bright light indicator. Vicky Brit and Moss don't show either in their catalog. I could also bring one of the fenders in a warm room downstairs and work on it. Its all bare metal and just needs some minor bondoing and probably a bunch of sanding. I can do this sitting a a table or whatever while resting my leg. Doc said he had to remove a flap of cartilage that was getting bound up in the joint and this left a hole where the flap was , he said he drilled holes down in the hole and placed a blood clot in the area so that scar catilage will form. Looks like I won't be walking on it for a while.
 
Is ok to do what you can, but let me tell you your ability is not what you think and won't be for awile.

Spend your time here and naping and watching TV and such for a few days, get that stuff out of your system.
 
jlaird said:
Is ok to do what you can, but let me tell you your ability is not what you think and won't be for awile.

Spend your time here and naping and watching TV and such for a few days, get that stuff out of your system.
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I am going totally insane from watching TV, Dvds, etc. I'm not a sit still and relax kind of person. I'm most relaxed and happy when I am tinkering on something. Perhaps you are right Jack, maybe I will just lay around and take it easy till my next doc visit on tuesday, but its hard.
 
Kim,

Take it easy. It's far to easy to overexert yourself and set back your recovery. But good that you're feeling ok.
Speedy Recovery....
 
regularman said:
turns out that I have to be on this machine that continually flexes my knee joint. My mom tells the doc,"I have one of those" and she did (got it at a yard, estate sale or something). Indeed, I am on it now.
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So what you're really saying is that you've got the time now to figure out how to adapt the mechanism to make the roof electric /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif

feel better!
 
JPSmit said:
regularman said:
turns out that I have to be on this machine that continually flexes my knee joint. My mom tells the doc,"I have one of those" and she did (got it at a yard, estate sale or something). Indeed, I am on it now.
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So what you're really saying is that you've got the time now to figure out how to adapt the mechanism to make the roof electric /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/driving.gif

feel better!
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Hey, man I don't think this would work, but I did have thoughts of rigging up an old power window motor and cable to clip on the windsheild and you could hook it back to a place on one of the supports and do what you are talking about. Haven't had my top on for 7 years so I havent been able to play with that for a while.
 
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