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Hello everyone.

Just joined, looks like a fantastic place to generate idea's. I have recently retired and love the idea of making jigs and things to make life easier. This place looks like everyone enjoys sharing their idea's, which is a joy in it's self. I trained as an industrial instrument maker and have an 1966 Austin Healey Sprite that I'm restoring.

All the best to everyone and thanks for your idea's................

Hi Yaculls - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:

Lots of recently retired folks here. :)

How is the Sprite restoration going? Building any interesting homemade tools along the way?

Hi Yaculls,

Welcome! :welcome:

Lots of car guys here (including me!); let's hear some more about your Sprite. How far along is the project?

Ken

Hey Yaculls, welcome to the forums! Used to have a 100-6, so would like to see what you're doing with your Sprite. :)

Thanks for the welcome. I've had the Sprite a few years now and just last winter I decided to take it of the road mainly because I wanted to take the engine out and repaint it. I also had a leak in the duel clutch/brake master cylinder (again) and wanted to improve the brakes. Anyway a long story short I removed the engine and decided to strip it, rebuild it and paint it, which I've just about completed. Just have to refit the head and rockers.

I have replaced the original master cylinder with two Tilton master cylinders, one for clutch and the other for brakes, I had to make a new peddle box for these, which I'm now happy with. I have also added the Frontline front brake upgrade and I'm going to fit the Frontline 5 speed T9 gearbox. So I have plenty of things going on to keep me occupied.

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Very, very cool! Nice work, too. :thumbsup:

I've rebuilt a number of engines over the years (airplane and motorcycle), but couldn't summon the courage to build the engine for my current project car. I wound up getting it from a specialty race engine shop. Next time out, I'm planning to do it all myself.

Huge respect for your work on the Sprite. Let's see some video of it running! :cool:

Ken

Thanks Ken, will post some videos when I get it running. In between times here is some picks of me installing new cam bearings.

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That's a pretty little thing! Even though old cars can be a pain to maintain, they have a nostalgic charm that new cars can't match.

Hi DIYer, I agree, they do have a certain charm and they are much simpler to fix. Not only that there are thousands of people with the skills and interest to keep them running. Here are a couple more photos of the new peddle box I made.

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Neat! Looks like you have enough mechanical and fabrication skills to keep that car running for a long, long time. :thumbsup: