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I'm not aware of that many places that do the work, but there are folks like https://www.safetyrestore.com/webbing-replacement/6793-classic-car-seat-belts.html or https://seatbeltrestore.com/seat-belt-repair-services "Seat belt webbing repair" is an actual oddball industry! I can probably ...

There are services that do this, and they're pretty affordable. Usually in the $100/belt range. It's not cheap like the junkyard, but not having to re-engineering anything and ensuring it's all brand-new certified construction feels like the better & safer option. Alternatively, you could just s...

merkurdriver wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 2:29 am Congrats on instant triple Merkur ownership!

Yeah, it usually takes a few months, but no problem getting it out of the way up front.

Had the SAME experience with home HVAC. I even told the dispatcher I knew what the problem was, and if they could just send someone with an inducer fan I'd be sorted. "No, we can't do anything without an inspection first." Fine. Dude came out, told me it was the inducer fan, but there was ...

It's terrifying how often this kind of stuff happens. A few years ago a friend of mine had her XLR towed after it started pouring smoke out of the hood. She had it towed to a shop, who a couple days later said they would rebuild her motor for twelve grand. My first thought was, "Don't trust *an...

Well, this whole thing hit a major snag when I found my clutch fork was shot.... that all happened here: http://forum.merkurclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=38562 But that piece of the puzzle is about solved, so back to the main task. Now that I'm done monkeying around with the transmission, ...

I think I'm probably a couple weeks from getting on the road. This whole thing has taken so long I've lost track of the details of the project. I think the only "major" things left to do are put oil in the gearbox, bleed the brakes, and reinstall the upper intake manifold. But I'm fairly c...

After a few false starts, I made this goofy thing: https://img.sacsaabs.org/xr/xr_hydclutch22.jpg It goes here: https://img.sacsaabs.org/xr/xr_hydclutch23.jpg The whole zip tie thing is temporary - I will pick up some actual hose clips ..... at some point. :) A company called NotcHead makes exactly ...

Yikes! Definitely a lot of leakage. Well, at least you have an answer and know what you gotta do. Pulling the motor isn't *that* bad, although it sucks to have done a HG and then have to pull the motor anyway. But, hey, it's old cars, right? :) You know, when I was in elementary school my neighbor h...

Here's how the master cylinder stays full: https://img.sacsaabs.org/xr/xr_hydclutch20.jpg I'm not 100% confident in this. One thing I didn't account for is the size of the nipple on the reservoir. It's of course 5/16" so there is no "easy" way to connect that to a system based on AN f...

Leakdown really needs to be done with 60+ psi to be of much value. 35psi is not enough to show anything useful. Still, it does seem pretty cut and dry it you're blowing oil everywhere you've got a blowby problem. I'd still wanna run a leakdown test at proper pressure to verify that.

I am about to do clutch work on mine. It doesn't appear to be a fun job.

Here's the final position, fork pivot removed for a clear view. It's actually kinda nice having a giant inspection hole here. You can even see the anti-rotation bolt that keeps the slave cylinder's orientation.

The stop is there for a couple reasons.... One, because the master only has 1.2" of travel and I didn't want someone (me....) to mash the pedal against the master's limit all the time. Two, the slave has no travel limiter so it's theoretically possible to blow the bearing off the base... althou...

I'm hoping it helps with driver comfort. My big issue is the ratio of pedals to steering wheel which I could fix by spacing the wheel out, but then the shifter would be too far. This could be a key ingredient. I've never had this problem in any other car, but I've lived with it in the XR for over 15...