Robert, Your Truck really looks great, thanks for sharing all the photos . The engine is also an award winner. Thanks. Charles
Topic Drift....... Yes , my little Metro FHC is a very cool car , I run the living snot out of it . The left rear wheel has been humming for about three years now so I finally took it apart last night ~ . This car has floating rear axles and the LR bearing was disintegrating ! the cage rivets had popped and pieces of broken sheet metal and SWARF were everywhere . I drained the whole rear axle and will now have to disassemble the entire banjo and hand clean it , rebuild the drive hubs with new old stock Japanese made Fafnir 207PP bearings then hopefully the pumpkin's bearings will be O.K. , if not i have a spare one and will pop it in and rebuilt the current one ~ 3.72 pumpkins for these cars are harder to find than hen's teeth , good thing I have one spare stashed away as well as another incoming soon . I took pictures of the loaded up magnetic drain plug and the tub but sadly , I wiped off most of the slivery/gray crud before remembering to grab my camera . I have a few spare hubs I spent hours cleaning and wire brushing , they look like new so I'm well pleased . I know this is an old truck site but you alls often ask me what I'm working on at any given moment . My poor old beat to crap C/10 soldiers right along ~ if I were driving a Brand 'F' , I'd be driving my shoes about now . Why CHEVROLET is and always will be the MOST POPULAR LIGHT TRUCK IN AMERICA .
Pictures Of what Russ ? . I stupidly didn't have my camera handy when I removed the drum , it was a perfect example of why I love Permatex ' The Right Stuff ' so much - the brakes were 100 % dry and oil free ! anyone who works on old British cars knows how rare this is ~ I had a ruined floating rear axle hub bearing yet not ONE DROP of gear oil leaked out . When I removed the axle shaft , the bearing's face was packed with silvery gray crud that was full of shiny bits of gound up bearing ball cage ~ a textbook picture if ever one existed but my hands were dirty and I was excited/pleased to have found the source of my problem so I ripped into it instead of stopping and cleaning my hands & hunting up the camera . I have the camera in my shirt pocket now and my big brother is coming over , I hope he'll take some pix of what I'm doing as The Met Club is always after me to write DIY How-To articles .
Speedy Met LOL ! no , the inner front tire usually lifts off the ground when I'm cornering hard ~ that was the World Famous Mulholland Drive Loop , I was going just shy of 65 MPH as there was a dufus in a freshly restored MGB 100 Roadster in front of me who was afraid to let it out or something else I'd been really moving . It has the original 1500 C.C. 'B' series BMC engine with a modified MGA 1622 cylinder head on it , coupled to a Borg Warner M-35 Slushbox from a 1979 Datsun B210 , an a 3.72 final drive pumpkin from a 1979 MG Midget , the only year that ratio was fitted to North American MG's making it hard to find . I was able to stuff some Michelin 165SR13" Defender radials under the rear , the front is so close I have 145's under there else they'll rub ~ a bad thing indeed . The Sports Car guys I run with , all love this car as it keeps up very well . Sadly I keep breaking wheels in it though and nearly flew off a mountain last summer..... . More if you wish , this is another's thread so I feel guilty about usurping it . I spent all day yesterday overhauling the rear floating hubs, one blew a bearing .
Continued topic drift... Nate, maybe you have done this already, but I'd like to see a complete list of all the STRANGE AND COOL vehicles you've had over the years! Of course with pictures.
Those Old Vehicles Jeezo-Peezo that'd be quite a long list ! . Sadly , I have very few pictures of the ones I had . I fondly recall my two owner 1954 Pontiac Super Chief Coupe , it had factory two - tome paint , yellow ocher and white , skirts , visor and color matching Dealer installed leather upholstery ~ fully optioned with a Dual Hydromatic slushbox tranny , InLine FlatHead 8 cylinder engine and...OOPS ! SWMBO says go time , more later .
