University Motors

During my youtube searches for how to do various car repairs, I stumbled upon University Motors. This shop, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, mostly focuses on MG's, but their youtube postings offer a lot of information on British car repairs. They have tons of videos posted (193 as of 4/2/2012) and continue to add more.

You can check out their shop and latest projects/postings here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Universitymotorsltd

An Electric Triumph Spitfire

I found this post on CNN and thought I'd share...

Dan Busby converted a 1964 Triumph Spitfire into an electric car using a 40-horsepower electric motor and 45 Lithium battery cells that take up the entire space under the hood and where the gas tank would be.

http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/08/an-electric-triumph/?hpt=hp_bn6

Too short, back to the store

I found this youtube video a while back while looking into how to remove the hub. It shows a quick and easy way to remove the rear axle bearing. The Haynes manual says to push the axle hub down the axle to get to the bearing, but with no further instructions than that. The video shows a cheap way to remove the bolts using threaded rods.

Using the same idea from the video above, I purchased some nuts and bolts to try and achieve similar results. Unfortunately, the bolts I purchased were too short. I was able to push the axle hub back, but the bolts were not long enough to fully expose the bearing. I ended making a second trip to the hardware store to get longer bolts to finish what I started. Re-watching the video again, I should have bought threaded rods.

My ineffective setup: (threaded rods that fit through the flange holes would have been better)