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#71
Maintenance and Modifications / Re: Stuck Pot Joints
Last post by tmsmini - April 02, 2024, 07:17:08 AMI have the tool which has almost always worked in the past, this time the tool just eventually bent. I think the clip is jammed at this point.
#72
Maintenance and Modifications / Re: Stuck Pot Joints
Last post by MiniDave - April 01, 2024, 05:26:31 PMI use a 12" long brass drift and a 3-lb hammer - they will come out! 
Put the drift against the outer corner of the pot joint and give it a solid whack - you're going for momentum and inertia here, not trying to break the joint. Turn the joint 180* and go again if you need to....
Put the drift against the outer corner of the pot joint and give it a solid whack - you're going for momentum and inertia here, not trying to break the joint. Turn the joint 180* and go again if you need to....
#73
Maintenance and Modifications / Stuck Pot Joints
Last post by tmsmini - April 01, 2024, 02:52:28 PMI guess this is just a run of bad luck. Diff seals were leaking and I went to remove the pot joints and neither will come loose. They were new from Somerford. I know there was a bad batch many years ago and I got one. Seven was able to press it off once it was removed from the diff with the side cover. But Seven is no longer. All I have done is bend my tool.
#74
The Lounge / Re: F1 - 2024
Last post by MPlayle - April 01, 2024, 01:49:39 PMSounds like your F1 "silly season" is starting early and covering more topics.
#75
The Lounge / Re: F1 - 2024
Last post by MiniDave - April 01, 2024, 12:26:33 PMThat would seem to me to dilute the market for both series.....
Rumor has it that Horner has formed a coalition with the Thais who own 51% of Red Bull to oust all of the Austrian members from F1 - so not only Marko but also young Mateshitzloadofmoney too. This will put him over both Red Bull and the RB junior F1 teams as well as RB powertrain.
I wonder how Honda is going to do in 2026 after "selling" all of their F1 engine/power unit guys to Red Bull in 2023, when Red Bull hired them all to continue their efforts for the Red Bull team only?
2025 will be a fascinating year if even a small percentage of the driver changes that have been prognosticated come to be!
Rumor has it that Horner has formed a coalition with the Thais who own 51% of Red Bull to oust all of the Austrian members from F1 - so not only Marko but also young Mateshitzloadofmoney too. This will put him over both Red Bull and the RB junior F1 teams as well as RB powertrain.
I wonder how Honda is going to do in 2026 after "selling" all of their F1 engine/power unit guys to Red Bull in 2023, when Red Bull hired them all to continue their efforts for the Red Bull team only?
2025 will be a fascinating year if even a small percentage of the driver changes that have been prognosticated come to be!
#76
The Lounge / Re: F1 - 2024
Last post by Brit_in_TX - April 01, 2024, 10:00:06 AMLiberty Media (the owners of Formula 1) have bought MotoGP. I wonder if this will finally result in a joint F1 and MotoGP weekend, it has been talked about on and off for years.
#77
Restorations / Re: 79 Canadian Mini
Last post by cstudep - March 31, 2024, 06:32:32 PMYour car looks absolutely great! Well deserved 1st place I would say 
#78
Maintenance and Modifications / Re: Lightweight Starter Batter...
Last post by 94touring - March 31, 2024, 02:51:41 PMI used one for awhile. It's sitting dead on my shop floor. Will try and get the info off it tomorrow.
#79
Maintenance and Modifications / Lightweight Starter Battery
Last post by Shrimps - March 31, 2024, 01:14:52 PMWhat is everybody using for lightweight starter batteries these days? With all the fancy battery tech out there nowadays, looking for something other than a standard flooded lead acid as I'd like to save some weight. It's easier to buy a lighter battery than have to lose weight myself.
My 2/2010(!) flooded battery needed some assistance after my car sat for nearly 10 months. Otherwise started surprisingly easy, thankfully.
Anyway, not sure if I want to go crazy & try out a Lithium powersport battery, or someplace in between with smaller (than flooded) AGM like a PC680 type. I am inherently cheap so I'd like to keep the cost at/under $150.
My 2/2010(!) flooded battery needed some assistance after my car sat for nearly 10 months. Otherwise started surprisingly easy, thankfully.
Anyway, not sure if I want to go crazy & try out a Lithium powersport battery, or someplace in between with smaller (than flooded) AGM like a PC680 type. I am inherently cheap so I'd like to keep the cost at/under $150.
#80
Restorations / Re: 79 Canadian Mini
Last post by skmini - March 31, 2024, 11:23:35 AMOf course, this is 1st place in "Restored British Sports Car", but the TR6 and MGA beside me are also in really good shape. There was also an MGB that had just been restored.