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Guys, I had an 83 VW Rabbit for 9 years. After the better portion of that period, and at over 100,000 miles, I had the right front caliper lock up. After sitting for a while, it would self-correct, but lock again, down the road. I took it to the dealer and he replaced the entire right front caliper ...

Tom: I read the latest entry in the Restoration Diary. If you can’t find a new transmission mount for 5053 or have the existing mount reconditioned, you CAN repair it yourself. Get some Loctite 120HP epoxy from a Loctite distributor like Fastenal. The 120HP in the syringe dispenser takes a special p...

Tom Y,

Welcome home. I read every one of your reports. Made for a very interesting story and a welcome part of my day. You could always get into travelogs like Rick Steves or Rudy Maxa. Seriously, do you have a resume we could see? Are you locked-in to the NYC area?


Tom

Guys: I just happen to be looking into this as 9129’s engine is starting to go back together. I contacted Roelof about their “Improved Valve Adjustment Bolt for Ferrari Engines”. They have an informative website and Herald ten Hove wrote a quick reply to my queries. It is a kit containing the articu...

Ricar, I like the socket-and-torque-wrench method, if, for no other reason than one is assured of applying the right amount of torque. Although, without the right socket material or some sort of lining, even a socket will leave a mark, albeit a small one. I save my unused lead hammer for concours ju...

William, Definitely get a good grade of epoxy or polyurethane. It must be a two-part coating. I tried to save a few bucks and used a single-part clear coating. Now every time I drop solvent or petroleum distillate on the floor it leaves a mark and if I spill a lot, I wipe it down to bare concrete. S...

Ed: 9129 does not (and never did, as far as I can tell) have air conditioning (boohoo in Oklahoma!!). The original fan blades and the new blades are totally identical except that the originals had a 5/16” bore that stepped down to ¼” in diameter. 5/16” could be construed as actually being 8mm since ...

Tom Kizer, If we all knew all there was to know about early Ferrari 2+2s, then this website wouldn’t exist. The only dumb question is the one that you didn’t get answered. I’ve made the odd misstatement, but learned from it. As we’ve seen, many changes were made all over every model, unannounced and...

Scott, Chris Coios is correct: the original finish on the fan blades was silver as on the major engine parts. I plan to bead-blast and re-paint the blades while I am refinishing some engine parts. Before painting, I will rough-balance using a simple manual mower blade fulcrum. My engine shop says th...

All, I just received my new kick panels from Mark and they are perfect. The material is almost identical to the original. You would have to put a piece of the original material right next to the new to tell the difference, and even then the difference is very slight. The dimensions of the pieces wer...

All: I contacted Kerry Chesbro about the 330 2+2 oil filter arrangement and this is his response: “The later engines (after the break point you mentioned [sometime in the 1965-1966 timeframe]) use two 2804-1 filters. The earlier cars had a main and bypass filters which were different. So your filter...

Greetings: Put me down for a pair for my '67 Series II (No. 9129). Who is running this show, now? I know Tom Wilson was doing it for a while. Thanks, whoever you are. I had a pair of perfect NOS plates for $200 then UPS got a hold of them and bent them around a fence post. I got my money back (thank...

When I got 9129, it had two Fram 2804-1 oil filters. In reading this site, I discovered that the two correct filters should be different. In anticipation of running the engine before Hell freezes over, I bought two NAPA 1050s (equivalent to the Baldwin B50) and two NAPA 1622s (equivalent to the Bald...

Matt: You are too kind. One caveat, though. I looked at my oil filter mount (330) and noticed that the material around each center hole appears adequate for an insert but not precisely concentric, so each situation should be evaluated for the suitability of repair. The major diameter (OD) of the 18 ...

Jim: A steel fitting connects the oil filter and the aluminum oil filter mount. The fitting has ¾-16 (US customary unified national fine thread) on the filter end and 18 x 1.5mm thread on the other, mount, end, with a 24mm tightening hex in the middle. Since only five threads of the fitting are enga...