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That has to be the slickest repair I've seen on shock towers. D*mn fine welding. Assuming you did both sides, how was it done so that the car rides evenly right to left?

+1 on damping the vacuum signal, this can be done several ways, the simplest being to squeeze down on the vacuum tubes, or put in restriction device(s). The sizes of the restrictions won't matter unless one is grossly different than another. Another "old style" way is to rig some clear...

Seals are frequently standard sizes, can you get the old one out and see if a shop can match it? Weber 32/36 carb bodies wear oblong where the steel throttle shaft rides in the pot metal carb body casting. I've read, somewhere long ago, that it's possible for a machine shop to drill out the...

Fast idle is controlled by an arc-shaped bit in the choke housing that has steps in it. The fast idle screw sits on the steps, sets how much the choke plates stay open. The fast idle screw is only accessible through a port in the choke housing. Getting it all right is enough to make you want...

Yeah, I've heard that early FJs had water issues and needed wheel cylinder rebuilds relatively often - a cousin had one. Aeration in your race car - seems odd. Aeration should only happen if there was air in the system to be mixed with, and the only free surface (air/fluid interface) would...

Castrol DOT 4 GT LMA, sold in pint and quart plastic cone top containers, is pretty much the standard. there are others, of course, but DOT 4 is the stuff, not DOT 3, NOT silicone unless you completely clean out the system- not for simply bleeding.

Pickle fork and BFH, or two hammers on opposing sides when the joint is exposed. Old joints seem to have a certain (HIGH) minimum level of force required, below which one can hammer away all day with zero progress. I grease the tapered stud prior to reassembly, on the repeatedly proven...

If you replace crumbling "masonite" or cardboard or whatever-it-is door panels with something insensitive to moisture....

Merely punching is only part of the chore. All the interior coolant passages are probably similarly gunked up. If your engine doesn't run hot, great. There are coolant flush products sold at your FLAP. Usually you pour in a pint of the stuff, run several weeks, then drain, rinse thoroughly...

My first "large" bimmer was a '69 2500a sedan... you WANT power steering. Steering effort did decrease a good deal when I got new front tires.

Exhaust bracket - that's great news (relatively), and of course opens the old can labeled "while I'm in there"... Can we throw you a (rhetorical) rope to keep you from sliding into the abyss?

https://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/wto/d/kaneohe-bmw-alpina-wheels/7603744281.html Might be the real thing, price alone is certainly in the neighborhood. I think you can see "ALPINA" cast into the rim on the first and third pics at 5 oclock but I didn't zoom in to validate. They look a...

Whom does your local dealer use? Not that they'd be aware, much less familiar, with the nightmare that some CS windshields can be... Keep the body well supported once the ws comes out - per Carl Nelson a lot of the difficulty of installing the ws comes from body flex once it's removed.

Joe, will you have a minimum charge? Who pays shipping? How will you deal with other costs such as degreasing (if needful)?

Hydraulic windows? Well what do I know.

IIRC, Art ran the show when I joined, though I forget the date (might have been in '85). I was about to sell my '72 tii, thinking I couldn't justify having both at the same time, and that I could "always" find another tii. I still have one of the decals Art had made, on the rear passenger...

Fritzie, I think the brittleness of the vinyl and strong tension caused by age caused the vinyl to shrink, and crack. The amount of force needed to stretch the vinyl and hold it in place while the adhesive sets, not to mention the small bond area between the adhesive and vinyl, likely rule out...

I have a pair somewhere, think I saw them a few days ago, and will PM if I find one or both. They're not pristine, could use a polish, and shipping though it must be paid, will not add to their value, only their cost. However, post if you solve your missing-mirror problem before I do.

Only somewhat off topic, ran into an old pal from high school last night, who has been fairly successful in insurance. He revealed, to my surprise, that there is another CS in Honolulu, owned by a moderately famous artist, whose daughter I was slightly acquainted with, decades ago. I havent'...

Drew: if what "We all know" were true, there would be no problem. But then we would all be wrong. It might have been Performance Brakes who (a fairly long while ago) posted a link to what seemed to me a very authoritative article addressing what actually happens when pads clamp rotors. The...