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The Hoopty is back on the streets.

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Teresa and I have now logged a few hundred miles since the Hoopty came back from the shop. Flawless performance once again; 215mm pressure plate and the throw-out bearing were replaced along with the cable (thanks, Carey, for the cable!) at Tif's Foreign Car Care in Annapolis, Maryland.
I brought parts to them, Warren Miles (the saint) lent me his trailer and Chris Robbins donated towing services with a Tahoe in the rain.
It looked like it was going to be an easy job; remove rear body section, unhang the engine and put the new pieces in, rehang engine and body section. ... Except that I took in the wrong pieces and they were absoultely conscientious about not letting me drive off with them installed.
Tif's had my car for almost two weeks, and they were puzzled by its engineering. It was tucked in and indoors every night while they tried to make sense of its guts -- over a THREE MILLIMETER discrepancy!
I'm not really surprised that they were confused. My super-secret gears live in a bastardized swing-axle case, my engine's a 2424 monster and "incorrect" for the car -- and my clutch assembly comes from an early microbus.
Their measurements kept coming up that I needed a 212mm pressure plate, and they didn't want to get it wrong. As it turns out, it needed a 215mm assembly, a part they don't routinely see or ever use, so they didn't know where to look for the size on the old one. Instead of just putting in what I brought them, they used old-fashioned measurements to determine what the replacement should be.
Nonetheless, it was repaired perfectly with exactly the right pieces -- and out the door again for a little under $700.00 -- after lots more effort than that labor cost reflects. Thanks also go to Dave and his crew at Peek Performance for consulting on and supplying the right pieces.
I have to tell you folks, I wanted to do the job myself but couldn't turn the wrenches. I took it to that shop for reasons of integrity and trust, and they didn't let me down.

I just wanted to pass that along. Teresa's got pictures somewhere of our driving fun to and from NYC since we got the car back. We'll be uploading the highlights pretty soon. Mickey actually drove the car last week when we passed through -- and his hair wasn't sticking up anymore when he got back from the drive. It was angled backward at about 45 degrees.

WOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO!

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Teresa and I have now logged a few hundred miles since the Hoopty came back from the shop. Flawless performance once again; 215mm pressure plate and the throw-out bearing were replaced along with the cable (thanks, Carey, for the cable!) at Tif's Foreign Car Care in Annapolis, Maryland.
I brought parts to them, Warren Miles (the saint) lent me his trailer and Chris Robbins donated towing services with a Tahoe in the rain.
It looked like it was going to be an easy job; remove rear body section, unhang the engine and put the new pieces in, rehang engine and body section. ... Except that I took in the wrong pieces and they were absoultely conscientious about not letting me drive off with them installed.
Tif's had my car for almost two weeks, and they were puzzled by its engineering. It was tucked in and indoors every night while they tried to make sense of its guts -- over a THREE MILLIMETER discrepancy!
I'm not really surprised that they were confused. My super-secret gears live in a bastardized swing-axle case, my engine's a 2424 monster and "incorrect" for the car -- and my clutch assembly comes from an early microbus.
Their measurements kept coming up that I needed a 212mm pressure plate, and they didn't want to get it wrong. As it turns out, it needed a 215mm assembly, a part they don't routinely see or ever use, so they didn't know where to look for the size on the old one. Instead of just putting in what I brought them, they used old-fashioned measurements to determine what the replacement should be.
Nonetheless, it was repaired perfectly with exactly the right pieces -- and out the door again for a little under $700.00 -- after lots more effort than that labor cost reflects. Thanks also go to Dave and his crew at Peek Performance for consulting on and supplying the right pieces.
I have to tell you folks, I wanted to do the job myself but couldn't turn the wrenches. I took it to that shop for reasons of integrity and trust, and they didn't let me down.

I just wanted to pass that along. Teresa's got pictures somewhere of our driving fun to and from NYC since we got the car back. We'll be uploading the highlights pretty soon. Mickey actually drove the car last week when we passed through -- and his hair wasn't sticking up anymore when he got back from the drive. It was angled backward at about 45 degrees.

WOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO!

WOLFGANGWOLFGANG'89 CMC FWB, FL Supporting Member
Curious on the pieces use as I have a Porsche 914 1.8L I one day plan to use in my Speedie. All the T4 engine sites say to use the 210mm bus cast iron flywheel to mate with the starter on the T1 trans. Of course the 215 flywheel is forged and superior to the bus one - plus it takes a smaller plate and disc. Apparently the 215mm can be used but it takes machining to get the flywheel teeth to mesh with the T1 starter. Maybe its the trans you used that made it all come together?

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Danny wrote...... You know Cory, you just weren't yourself this year

Well that's because Cory was/is hurting as I was a couple of years ago with severe back problems.
Cory...Screw the minimal successful therapy and bs pain management shots, they're worthless. In the interim, you're in a lot of pain & getting little or no sleep with no real relief. Only way to correct this and do so correctly is with the minimal invasive surgery of Dr. Jon Weingart Professor of neurology c/o Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore MD.
He knows exactly what he is doing and had me 100% with no residual effects is a very short time frame. ~Alan

http://hopkinsneuro.org/spine/doc.cfm/expert/Jon_Weingart
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I have them from the second operation. They asked me just before they asked me to count backwards from 100. I have the plate and screws in a baggie (steralized of course). I'll do the same when they take this out. That bracket is the side where the screws do in. Nice huh. When I go through airport security .....

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Alan, the neck is doing much better. The Ortho doc told me yesterday he wouldn't suggest surgery anymore, and that I'll be one of those 100 percent recoveries because of early intervention. PT agrees, as does chiropractor. Still sore, but loads better. And it feels good to be out amongst the motoring public again.
Here are a few shots of what we've been up to; in the first, she's driving somewhere in northern New Jersey with a shop cloth for a do-rag. In number two, she's coincidentally parked in front of a New Jersey Trooper with his lights on. In the third picture, she's at wheel-height amongst a herd of NYC transit busses, trying to get to the George Washington Bridge.

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A couple more. ... Teresa driving on the return trip from NYC, the sun setting on the inbound leg going north, and the Hoopty's rear-view in the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. I think the third one looks like the launch sequence from Battlestar Galactica. Remember that show from way back?

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And, of course, the SEG. The engine shot is from Tif's, when the car was in mid-work. It got me to thinking. Maybe, if I was sneaky enough, I could shoe-horn the 911's engine out and secretly replace it with Folger's Crystals. Then, if I was equally crafty, I could stick its engine in my car ...
Nah. It probably wouldn't work as well. The third picture is Scoop, the mascot for the NYC trip. He's jammed up in front of the mirror so he won't slide off the dashboard on hard acceleration.

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We took an exit off the 95 for a little back-country excursion in the VW. We followed the roads from one item of interest to another until we got hungry, but along the way we saw this out-of-service bridge over some tracks. Teresa took a lot of the pictures that follow.
At the bridgehead, the field in the second picture was someone's back yard. There was some kind of small-engine and welding business there.
The third one is my favorite iron bridge. It's near the Newark airport, and must have employed a thousand people for years to build. I think it starts in Manhattan and ends near Teaneck somewhere. I couldn't see where it started or stopped.

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I have no idea who the poster is pimping for. Some band -- obviously specific and local to Teresa's neighborhood. What a poster, though. I had to take a picture.
Number two is an I-95 wreck we stopped at to help with EMS until local help arrived. A semi had changed lanes over top of the little compact, and there were four occupants. All were slightly injured, nobody badly. We worked the patients with a few other volunteers until help got there with lights and sirens about 40 minutes later.
The signs in the third picture are just proof-positive that the Sloppy Jalopy was road trip-worthy -- and a decent shot of the bug-killing properties of the windshield.

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We've taken a couple trips back and forth to NYC in the past week and a half. One was in the Hoopty and the other in the Golf. The Golf trip was rather unremarkable, but both resulted in good photos -- and we're behind in posting about a month's worth.

Here are some from MusBJim's visit to the Right Coast.
In the first, we're looking at the arrangement of the fuel cell. Two is Jim trying it out on a test-flight sans engine, and in number three we've figured out where the rear deck went.
What a great dude Jim is -- comes all the way out here to do Carlisle in style and noise, and winds up making the trip without the promised transportation and never misses a beat. Thank the stars Kelly and his Red Baron were here and willing to share the joy.
I think Pineapplehead Jim smiled from beginning to end.


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Now for the legroom pictures.
Jack and his son came all the way to Carlisle from Arkansas with enough room left over to sit in reasonable comfort. This was the first two-person Hoopty trip to anywhere for an overnight, and I think I might have to eat my pride a bit and get one of those luggage rack things you guys are always talking about. Maybe I should have thought more carefully about hacking out the back "seat." It was always good for a backpack or a duffel bag.
The boots are me, and the Adidas are Teresa.
The night shot is in front of her place on West 184th in Uptown. We thought the garage might be a better place to park, so we moved the car after we unloaded it.

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Teresa took an interesting shot at Tif's, too. The black Speedie is plated "57Speed." I don't know whose car that is, but Jim says it's a VS. Any ideas?
Second; Teresa's take on the railroad tracks that the out-of-service bridge passed over. That was a kind of a "smell the roses" day in the VW, and if you haven't done one of those lately ... it's really a good way to find Americana in a sea of commercialism.
The third picture is ... well, us. She's not always the tough guy.

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On a personal note, thanks for the calls and e-mails while I was out; it was very nice to hear from each of you. Now that I can type and look at a screen for more than a few minutes at a time, I'm glad to see that I also have about 1,400 SOC messages to catch up on!
Y'all have been some typing fools!

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MusbJimMusbJim'14 VS SoCal Supporting Member
Cory, my crooked-neck-recovering/Hoopty-passengering/NYC-touring/Crazy-bout-Teresa, BRutHA!!!

Its good to see you're noticeably on the road to recovery (good job, Mother Teresa!). Welcome to the realm of the living.

Cool pics, my favorites include the shot of you & me checking the Hoopty (reminds me that my recent visit back East was one of my favorite 'Buddy' trips). The other very cool shot is the no-flash profile of Teresa driving at sunset. BTW - the band poster you included is for the Jewish rap group 'Fitty Schekel'.

Peace - Out!
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