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I think I'm a week or 2 out from driving the car. I am in an "essential" position and am permitted to go to and from work despite current restrictions limiting number of people in building at one time. We are also able to maintain 6ft apart so as long as no one brings it to work were good. Of course...

andyofcolumbusmerkur wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:52 am

DMV is closed here also, and they said just drive around and don't worry about plates. I don't think cops are even going to pull you over.

Yeah, we'll see. My last real tag expired in 2012, and the last temp tag expired in 2018 IIRC. But hey, I have the most important thing, insurance

Did a little bit of final fitting of the t-5 today. I think I have a reasonable angle on the front section of the drive shaft, and had to "massage" the tunnel sheet metal with a vise grips, and screw driver to get the inner boot to clear, and not have the trans rubbing on the tunnel once it was shim...

If I were in the situation where I felt that the bands/major mechanicals were still OK, then I would risk rebuilding the valve body myself using the Transgo Shift kit and using the the explorer forum link as a guide (along with the kit's instructions). I would also research all other upgrade parts ...

M10 - 1.00 x 20mm is a good answer here. The surface on the yoke is recessed, which makes fitting a socket over the bolt head a little iffy so I'd really would prefer to have a flange bolt, but I cannot find any. So, it's either a hex head straight against the diff yoke and a janky socket fitment, ...

Fans coming on without key in the ignition was a daily occurrence with my XR in the summers at nearly 5000ft of altitude. And that was without driving it hard.

I've been running a "redneck manual steering" on the Brat for a couple years now. It's just a stock TRW rack with the hydraulic lines open to filtered atmosphere. I do plan to go back to power steering, hopefully with a Saginaw pump as donated from a Focus. I've gathered the parts, just need to imp...

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Got on from Jeff at MPM.

FYI my XR has a 02-07-1986 build date, and the crossmember for the trans mount is 12.75" wide overall, not between centers of the slots.

This was back when it was originally installed: http://www.sacsaabs.org/sacsaabs.org/misc/xr_shifter_in.jpg It does include the lever part, which isn't shown. It does not include a knob - just a threaded nub on top of the lever. :) I ended up using an 8 Ball shifter from Kragen as a short term fix,...

Yeah, I had never touched a T5 before I put one in the XR 12 years ago, but someone here gave me that advice so I bought a Triax first thing. Spent more on that than I did the whole gearbox.:) Now, having driven stock shifters I have no regrets. The Triax changes the whole thing. Totally worth it. ...

I got new driveshaft in Oct-nov to go with the world class T5 that landed in my lap in Aug(?). Next will be a shift handle, and probably a shifter as well. Still gotta get a boot, and a surround. So some of my Xmas is gonna be late, but I always tell the wife to not buy me stuff for birthday or Xmas...

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May 2020 bring completed car porjects, and many mile driven in those Merks

That driveshaft I had modified, or maybe more accurately fabbed, cost more then the trans did for me. Of course so did the clutch pedal spring that Herson sent me