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DrEntropy

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New bushes in-hand.
 
DIG IN< DOC!

HEY< MY CAP LOCK ISN"T ON BUT I CAN"T TYPE LOWER CASE _ WHY?
 
:lol:

Spoken like a true life-long LBC owner, Bob! :cheers:
 
tony barnhill said:
DIG IN< DOC!

HEY< MY CAP LOCK ISN"T ON BUT I CAN"T TYPE LOWER CASE _ WHY?
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Shift key is stuck - cap lock doesn't affect the numbers or symbols keys.
 
Thanks, Mick!
 
No, its an "emachines"....it was the switch key issue but I couldn't figure out what the correction was.
 
DrEntropy said:
New bushes in-hand.
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Careful!
It *starts* with trunnions

Pretty soon, you move on to gudgeon pins.
Then baulk rings
Maybe a new set of knave plates

Then you're checking that accumulator. Having a look for good earths. And the dynamo brushes.

Soon you're struggling to pull the nearside wing away from the scuttle.

It never ends I tell ya! :jester:
 
I ain't no newbie at this...

I already *expect* to be drawn into th' whole enchilada. :wink:

It's always them pesky knave plates, innit?!

Blast-n-darnn!! :shocked:
 
& then its disassembled & all over the garage for the next couple of years.....& your Moss distributor is a happy guy!
 
This MUST be done in a timely manner. "Timely" bein' before the Alfa folds in th' middle.

I'm beginning to avoid openin' both doors at the same time. :jester:
 
Well, Mickey has a trailer......
 
But he's lookin' for a <span style="font-style: italic">much older</span> basket case Alfa! :devilgrin:
 
INFURIATING!!!

Right side all but done. Assembled, hung, sprung. Workman like, serviceable.


Left side, welll...

The idler arm rear bolt is FUSED to the I.D. of the arm! Gotta be rust. Two days of PB, heat, BFH, profanities not utter'd in decades. NOTHING has made a difference. Bolt head hex is now FUBAR. Cutting the bolt head off is next. Still won't get me to point of disassembly but I'm workin' from home, tools are rudimentary. No six-point sockets, blah, blah, blah... :madder:
 
Don't think you're alone, Doc...the left trailing arm on my Corvette came out easily...the right not so easily....& the right spindle was shot & frozen to the bearings....got everything new for both trailing arms & got them rebuilt...when we started putting the differential back together, we found a bad side yoke on the passenger side (I should've looked at it when the strut rod on the passenger side was bent in addition to the problems with the spindle)...now, I'm dead in the garage until the new yoke arrives!
 
gah.

At least you can blame the PO for your issues... ~I'm~ th' DPO in this case. This is "The Cobbler's Children" stuff. Neglected this poor thing for a decade, now getting to all the things I ignored for so long. Tho I *swear* I'd greased those trunions once or twice. :shocked:

I "found" the missing V-8 lower bushings I'd remembered buying... they were on the left side pin. Replaced back-when as a "field repair". Now THEY'RE rusted to the pin. I may be callin' you soon with a 'laundry list' of pieces I need to mitigate prior lunacy.

At least the RIGHT side looks presentable now. :jester:
 
Gimme a yell.....I have some polyurethane items in stock.
 
Have bushings, gonna need "hard" bits. Idle arm and bolts, possibly the inner lower fulcrum "pin". Depends on how "vigorous" I get with th' die grinder n' cut-off wheel. And my level of patience. :smirk:
 
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