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1. RE: 1275 back plate needed... (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:23:42 -0500; Let's assume, for the sake of conversation, that you are unable to locate a new back plate: Just where are these three cracks located? I'd be real tempted to send the thing out to a good machine sho; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00051.html (11,254 bytes)
2. RE: How do you (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:26:09 -0500; take it to a machine shop, and let THEM worry about it. May require EDM, to remove. And, no, I don't know ANYTHING about the EDM process, or what it stands for. However, when the special tap used to; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00109.html (10,155 bytes)
3. RE: How do you (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:58:54 -0500; Ahhh. Thanks, Chris. Very interesting website. Re: my 356's ring gear. If I had elected to use new parts, the cost of 356 my transaxle rebuild & upgrade would have exceeded $7K. That little exercise; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00119.html (9,526 bytes)
4. RE: I'll try again... (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:26:21 -0500; My next door neighbor, when I was a little kid, was a Pontiac dealer (this was in the early to mid 50s). Later on, in life, I sold new VWs (just long enough to learn that I did NOT like dealing with; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00120.html (10,758 bytes)
5. RE: And then there were 399 (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:17:37 -0500; I remember a descriptive phrase, from Car & Driver (in the pre-Yates days, before it lost all credibility), describing drivers of Ferraris, and other exotics, as "greaseballs, and wealthy illiterates; /html/spridgets/2006-02/msg00181.html (11,670 bytes)
6. RE: Help needed now - Brake light switch (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:08:17 -0500; Can't help you, there. But, I CAN tell you that the replacement switch, that Moss sells, is a Chink-built piece of crap. When my second Chink-built replacement failed, last summer, I got to looking a; /html/spridgets/2006-02/msg00241.html (11,307 bytes)
7. RE: Help needed now - Brake light switch (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:20:33 -0500; OOPS!! Belay the disassembly! I just remembered that I never even had to take the Lucas switch apart. I just kept loading it up with Gibbs Penetrant, until it was freed-up, and the corrosion dissolve; /html/spridgets/2006-02/msg00242.html (11,959 bytes)
8. RE: 1275 back plate needed... (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:23:42 -0500; Let's assume, for the sake of conversation, that you are unable to locate a new back plate: Just where are these three cracks located? I'd be real tempted to send the thing out to a good machine sho; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00248.html (10,261 bytes)
9. RE: How do you (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:26:09 -0500; take it to a machine shop, and let THEM worry about it. May require EDM, to remove. And, no, I don't know ANYTHING about the EDM process, or what it stands for. However, when the special tap used to; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00307.html (9,191 bytes)
10. RE: How do you (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:58:54 -0500; Ahhh. Thanks, Chris. Very interesting website. Re: my 356's ring gear. If I had elected to use new parts, the cost of 356 my transaxle rebuild & upgrade would have exceeded $7K. That little exercise; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00317.html (8,470 bytes)
11. RE: I'll try again... (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:26:21 -0500; My next door neighbor, when I was a little kid, was a Pontiac dealer (this was in the early to mid 50s). Later on, in life, I sold new VWs (just long enough to learn that I did NOT like dealing with; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg00318.html (9,663 bytes)
12. RE: Brake fluid question (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:52:53 -0500; I'm running silicone fluid in my '72 Midget, going on 5 years with no problems. I'm going to go back to Castrol Girling fluid, for the '73 that I'm working on, now, and flush/renew the fluid in the s; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01106.html (9,931 bytes)
13. RE: Brake fluid question (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:50:27 -0500; Correct. They will NOT mix, although they can both be in the same hydraulic system together. This does NOT mean that I'm advocating that anyone drive their car with BOTH types in the system, topping; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01111.html (8,780 bytes)
14. RE: Brake fluid question (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:04:14 -0500; The two articles you refer to are exactly the ones I was referring to. Mr. Adler s monthly column, in Vintage Truck magazine, is called Notes from the Corrosion Lab , and contains some very good an; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01116.html (10,124 bytes)
15. RE: Brake fluid question (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:14:12 -0500; Agreed. Guy also mentioned (in our off-post discussion)the possibility that one could "pre-condition" a seal for an adverse reaction to the other. Looking back, the only time I can remember converti; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01117.html (9,169 bytes)
16. RE: Tire availability? (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:46:42 -0500; Yeah, Kuhmo offers one of the only 165 x 15 radials available, in the US, at a very reasonable price. And, you can be sure that the cheapest part of any Porsche is the owner...... Verdstein is the on; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01132.html (9,755 bytes)
17. RE: Tire availability? (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:05:47 -0500; Yes, they were/are. I guess I should have known better. But, my judgment was impaired by the terrible shock & awe ($$$$) of a Porsche 356 transaxle rebuild, followed by having to spend "matching fund; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01147.html (8,350 bytes)
18. RE: Tire availability? (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:06:07 -0500; Yeah, it was NOT a pretty sight. The usual 356 transaxle failure: sheared differential carrier bolts. Of course, before they shear, they work loose, and egg-out the bolt holes in the ring gear, and d; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01155.html (10,283 bytes)
19. RE: Tire availability? (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:10:37 -0500; Yeah, the wife deserves it. She's got a good sense of humor, and is amazingly tolerant, for a non car-babe. Bud Osbourne "Shock & Awe"...356 Transaxle. Matching funds on wife...good on ya! :) Cap'n B; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01156.html (7,623 bytes)
20. RE: Tire availability? (score: 1): Author: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>; Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:29:45 -0500; You'd have LOVED it! They're quite addictive. Driving a properly set up, well maintained 356 is an awesome experience. Compared to other cars of that era, the 356 is a super-star athlete. The down si; /html/spridgets/2006-03/msg01159.html (10,225 bytes)

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