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Depends on the perspective. Looks right looking at a symmetrical empty hole or looks right with the same amount of gap all the way around the air cleaner protruding thru the hole in the hood?

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Depends on the perspective. Looks right looking at a symmetrical empty hole or looks right with the same amount of gap all the way around the air cleaner protruding thru the hole in the hood?

The latter, by far, IMHO.

There is also the width of the stripe along that opening to consider.

Jim

Increasing the opening by 1/2" on each side will leave a 1" silver stripe on the passenger side and a 1-1/2" silver stripe on the driver side. The green tape represents the additional 1/2" opening.

Last weekend I took a friend's 7 year-old son for a short ride in the Roadmaster.

He commented to his dad upon our return: "That car is dynomite!"

He is mildly autistic.

His dad then took the car out with his 4 year old daughter.

Dad had the same emotion regarding the Roadmaster.

(His daughter could not see out the side window nor over the dash.....but I understand that she enjoyed the sense of speed she was feeling.)

I took the car to Champaign this morning. It drew a crowd.

So glad you are able to get RM out and seen as well as the kids getting the seat of the pants feeling.

I made a laminated windscreen promotional flyer for the Roadmaster last night.



Contact me if you would like to have a jpg of this document.

I made two of them to keep with the car. Please let me know if you would like to see any changes (keep it simple!).

The Roadmaster is currently in Indianapolis....I brought her (him?) to the MGC national meet.

Fuel gauge is FUBAR....started going whacky on me about 30 miles into the journey....guage went from 3/4 to 1/2 to 1/4 to 5/8 to 1/2....so I stopped in Crawfordsville to fill up,

Took 10.85 gallons.....

My recommendation....count on the gauge being at least 1/4 of a tank LESS than the gauge shows.

It has been that way for a while. Ask PJ!

All, Rick:

First off, I'm also very glad Rick is getting to enjoy the car! And thanks for getting it 'oot and aboot".

a) Only change I'd add to your Flyer is something along the lines of "currently touring the states".

b) As long as we're spending some money, should we consider having the tach and fuel gauge rebuilt by Nisonger Instruments? Just suck it up, get it done, etc. I think that might be cheaper than looking for another complete set. (It'll still likely be $300 unless someone can "convince" Peter to help out! :-) ) I do think I'd change the fuel sender first before this-- one last try, etc. (I checked it when it was here and it is... uh.... "not new". :-p )

$.02

M

Roadmaster to be shown at MGC in Indy? Can't find any details of meeting on-line - where/when (I live in Columbus, IN)?

Don....we are at the Clarion Waterfront just off the intersection of I-465 and I-74 on the west side.

Most of the information has been posted on the MG Experience MGC Forum.

The guys are out on self-guided tours of Parke County, IN today.

We'll be at the Union Jack Pub in Speedway tonight.

Tomorrow morning about 10:30am we will be a Ray Skillman collector cars in Greenwood, IN

Tech sessions tomorrow afternoon at the hotel.

Saturday morning is car display/show at the indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum from 9am to noon....then to downtown Speedway for lunch and a tour/indycar experience at the Dallara Indycar Chassis factory.

Saturday evening is banquet, awards, and auction at the hotel.

Come on out!



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I'll look at some different gauge sets and get some prices.

I personally do not like the calibration of the Stuart-Warner gauges, especially the speedometer.

I'll take a look at Speedhut and Autometer.

Well...the tradition continues.

I've not been able to get under the car yet....

...but my guess is one of the universals on the differential is FUBAR.




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OK...it is NOT a universal.

Take a look at the coil-over.

What could cause that? How does the one on the other side look?

Broke the shock? Hope the axle is okay!

Guzman has explained the coil over ("spring too short"-- it was cranked up the adjustment quite a bit, as you can see in the pic!)

But I'm more curious about the Steering Wheel! How the Hell does THAT happen?!? Cheap chinese crap meets vibrating steering wheel and operator who clenches?!



M

Max....that steering wheel has wobbled from day one. I remember it doing that on the Power Tour. I believe it broke at the outer rim...then the flex caused the stress fractures at the hub,

We've had a lot of folks in the driver's seat, many who use the sterring wheel to push themselves out of the car. (Same as the fatal error some commit by pulling themselves out of a tourer by grasping an pulling on the windscreen!)

Carl....I agree...but we won't know much until later when we can get under the car and take a better look. Hopefully, the "shiny bits" are just that...."shinty bits".

Lloyd Faust has given some good advise...."Ricki...remove the shock on the other side and take the spring off of it. Then reinstall the shock and move the suspension up and down by hand....make sure it doesn't bind in any position."

Obla-di, obla da.....

That's pretty ugly. Glad it didn't cause any sort of mishap. I believe those are 8" springs and probably around 300 or 350 rate. Perhaps a 10" or even 12" would be better, someone else will have to advise on that. I'm no expert on coil-over units. Be sure to have a good look at the top mount though. It doesn't look like that was the failure point from the photo but the bolt is in single shear so check it out if you don't mind.

I also noticed the wheel didn't feel real solid in Omaha. Never expected it to break though. The car seems to be getting a pretty good thrashing which really, is a good thing. We are learning things from it that we would not otherwise know. Now I do not recall where we got the wheel, if it was VB or ebay or where. -- OK I went back and looked. Page 73 about 1/2 to 2/3 down. Bill Young bought a new wheel for us, I think he got it from Moss Motors. It was installed in early December 2011. Anybody else think that could be a warranty issue?

Jim