Saturday, September 6, 2008

Now, this was started as an afterthought. I wanted to do this as I went along but I've already accomplished alot.

After getting the car and moving up to CT I began restoring her based on the advice the the folks over at MGExperience. They helped out by providing a wonderful checklist on how to restore a car to driving condition. Needless to say I skipped a few steps. Here's what I've done.
  1. Bled the Brakes
  2. Repaired Brake Leak
  3. Repaired Passenger Brake Caliper (it was jammed, blunt force calibration, all good)
  4. Cleaned Carburetors and replaced gaskets, needles, jets, and topped off dashpots with oil
  5. Removed, cleaned, and refurbed heater
  6. Removed radio and replaced cigar lighter
  7. Replaced ignition coil, wires and plugs
  8. Repaired Fuel pump (dismantled and reassembled)
  9. Started up engine, timed and moderately cleaned it up.
  10. Tuned Carbs
  11. Corrected tach, fuel gage, and temp gage
At this point she became drivable and I began to use it as a daily driver. I cleaned up the dash, top, and gauges. Pretty much decided I was just doing cosmetics at this point. Left to do was:
  1. Radio
  2. Carpet
  3. Paint
  4. Gaskets
Not necessarily in that order, but that's what I had to do....little did I know.

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