At the end of Part 58, after rebuilding the driver's door hinges, I included this picture and noted that it was the first time I had ever driven Beck TD with the top up. But there's something I didn't tell you...
Monday, April 27, 2020
Beck TD, Part 60: Replacing the Rear Top Rail
Honestly, when I'm doing something geeky for Beck TD, sometimes the hardest part is deciding the blog post's title. I finally settled on "just the facts, Ma'am" - yes, I replaced the rear top rail. Now to tell you what that is!
At the end of Part 58, after rebuilding the driver's door hinges, I included this picture and noted that it was the first time I had ever driven Beck TD with the top up. But there's something I didn't tell you...
At the end of Part 58, after rebuilding the driver's door hinges, I included this picture and noted that it was the first time I had ever driven Beck TD with the top up. But there's something I didn't tell you...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Beck TD, Part 59: An M41 Shifter
I'm writing this on April 14th, 2020 - almost exactly a month into the COVID-19 quarantine. It was Friday, March 13 when we decided to cancel our Sunday worship services at Lancaster Church of the Brethren, where I work. By the next week, we were doing online church, and the building was basically closed. What a change! All those changes have kept me away from the Grant St. Garage, because I was the person with the tech skills to get us online. It has been a wild four weeks!
But... as I came to understand some things about video production, audio editing and live streaming, the pressure has eased a bit and I made it back to the shop this afternoon. The project of the day: the shifter for the M41 overdrive transmission I laboriously rebuilt beginning in Part 51, extending for multiple posts. When I got that rusty, seized transmission, it came with a coveted remote shifter, but it was totally broken - something heavy had fallen on it and destroyed it. The upper photo is of the remote shifter currently installed in Beck TD, and the lower is of the broken shift extension from the one I rebuild. In addition to that irreparable break, the entire top plate of the shifter had warped and cracked. I needed a new shifter!
But... as I came to understand some things about video production, audio editing and live streaming, the pressure has eased a bit and I made it back to the shop this afternoon. The project of the day: the shifter for the M41 overdrive transmission I laboriously rebuilt beginning in Part 51, extending for multiple posts. When I got that rusty, seized transmission, it came with a coveted remote shifter, but it was totally broken - something heavy had fallen on it and destroyed it. The upper photo is of the remote shifter currently installed in Beck TD, and the lower is of the broken shift extension from the one I rebuild. In addition to that irreparable break, the entire top plate of the shifter had warped and cracked. I needed a new shifter!
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