Archive for February, 2009

New Transmission is Here

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Showed up yesterday evening, I didn’t really take time to look at it until this morning.  The packaging was awful!  The UPS Store guys really let us down this time.  They just stuck it in a box that was barely big enough and filled it with peanuts!  But, in spite of that, it appears to [...]

New Transmission Coming!

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Got the clutch master cylinder all done and took the car for a nice drive Sunday. All is well there, though I wasn’t able to get any signs of life from the new knock sensor. I know it works because I tested it with it’s external LED… I just don’t have something configured right with [...]

Clutch Slave Cylinder Rebuild

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

What? Clutch slave cylinder? How mundane and low-tech! Ah, but it’s still an old British car at heart. Of course, being an old Spitfire with a leaky master cylinder means paint repair at a minimum, rust repair at worst.  In this case, it’s just some minor surface rust.  I hit it with a wire brush, [...]

A Little Housekeeping

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

No real progress today, just tidying up a bit. Cleaned up the wiring on the left side of the engine… the coolant sensor, the O2 sensor and the new knock sensor wiring. Then realized that I had no idea where to connect the knock sensor signal wire to the MS Relay Board. So, I had [...]