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Most run of the mill tire shops pay no heed to the dots, which is odd, since the shop is wasting money on weights. I've even asked a couple times and had them look at me like a dummy. Mostly Discount Tire.

Nice wheels. Looks like MV8's bead cleaning suggestion may be helpful. You may be lucky that the old tire blew up. At such high pressure, I would have worried about the old magnesium just as much.

Lighter tools? Visit a bicycle shop. Light, combination tools that pack easily. Other good stuff to be had. For those that have a wheel cover/hub cap thing, they have mini tire tools made of plastic so they won't scratch.

Congratulations! Hope it stays fixed!!

The symptoms don't seem to me to point to a bad fuel pump. If the pump stopped, doesn't seem like relieving all load on the engine (clutch) would result in instant restart. It should need to rebuild fuel pressure or at least have a bubble of air. Still think vibration from torque load (+ or -) is messing with a sensor. Low Oil pressure reading telling ECM to shut down? Anything telling the ECM do shut down would do it

Hunch. It has little to do with the clutch it's self. Something, like a crankshaft position sensor is getting out of line. Wobbling, or loose? The engine goes from power torque to braking torque and that still keeps the problem piece off its spot. The clutch eliminates any torque shaking for a moment so, instant restart. Something like that.

No idea what it would mean, just something easy to try.

Have you tried switching the key off then on, before using the clutch?

Congratulations on your Stalker. Hope that will be enough power for you, for a while. Nice to see the U-Haul toy hauler being used. I did check, the are very very heavy. How did it pull.

The mayhem on BAT is winding down. Caterham Super Seven Bid to USD $17,750.00 1991 Westfield SEI (No Reserve) sold for $13,500

Congratulations indeed. You have a super buy there. Enjoy it thoroughly.

Always, always, always set a reserve you can live with.

Regarding the discussion about excess listings on BAT: The Zetec-Powered Birkin S3 auction you were following on BaT has been sold for USD $14,500.

Anytime you get that many competing, it diminishes the "brand." Some people will just wait for more selection to come; think these cars are qquite common; can get one any day; Bids will be lower and some will be unsold. Hope all the sellers have a reserve they can live with.

" The full catalog is available here." Great job, John. I'll take the brunette.

Was the original a one use, crushable washer?

Odd it doesn't have more snaps along the middle of the front/back. Goes over a folding top, hence the "shoulders" outboard of the flat center section? Like for a Miata, but not.

Or, you could put a pressure regulator (adjustable) in line with the dry sump plumbing. Went through that with a 2 L Peugeot mill with a Moroso pump. Called Moroso and was told the pump was for a small block V8. I think I got the regulator from Speedway Motors, or some roundy round supplier.

Put a genuine plumbing valve in the hot water line to the heater. Close in spring. Open in fall. Pretty common practice on CMVs.

Oh, no. Don't let @Vovchandr drag you away for Bezos' party.

Croc's comment about hitting a roll cage is vital. The team once saw fit to remove the padding from my cage..Rally.. Off the mountain, rolled 3 or 4 times (my count vs. Navigator's). Hit cage with helmet on the first roll over and cracked it enough to come over my face. Sucked head into shoulders and didn't hit it again, but scary. Amazing how much one can stretch. I always wore belts TIGHT, enough to have shoulder bruises after a few days' rally. Cage requires helmet and padding.

Dick sold his parts inventory in one group.

Looks like nobody wins the golden thumbs up. The correct answer is Tazio Nuvolari. The story is that at Monza, Nuvolari had the fastest practice time. In the pits, the journalists asked about brakes. He replied, "Brakes are not important. All they do is slow you down." To mess with them, he had his mechanics cut off half the brake linings. Then went out and improved his time. There is a trick to it, of course. The linings then were bolted to the shoe, so if you leave the leading half and cut off the trailing half, you would not lose anything over one or two laps. Or, since brakes were such a terrible weak part in those days, he could have just used them for a lap a bit harder than he would in a race.

Come on guys. Think older.

Oops sorry, Scott. No winner yet.