Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 308 Tech Session (Fredericksburg, VA)

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

You guys always make me want to live in the Mid-Atlantic region.

rick

--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Michael James <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Michael James <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 308 Tech Session (Fredericksburg, VA)
> To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 2:08 PM
> I just did this last spring myself - in my case, it was
> easily a whole-weekend job for two reasons - one, you'll
> want to replace the pulleys with metal-ones with
> ball-bearing axles to greatly reduce friction on the steel
> cable.  And two, I found it necessary to soak the
> old-greased fittings overnight so I could brush the crap out
> of the pulley teeth the next morning, wash, dry, re-lube the
> parts, and then practice re-spooling the cables so they
> wind/unwind correctly according to their orientation in the
> door.  Plus, if you're installing electricals to
> 'support' the existing motors, that might take some
> time to 'finagle' the connectivity the way you want
> it.  On one particularly bad afternoon, I had to un-tangle
> and re-spool a door window cable five times until I got it
> right.  
>  
> Notice I didn't say anything about re-cutting and
> re-hanging the nylon water-shields behind the leather and
> fiberglass door panels, or the one that's
> 'supposed' to hang inside the door frame itself to
> protect your window motor and your stereo speakers from
> water that runs down the door glass when you wash the
> car....mine were missing.  I shoulda made patterns for
> distribution.....oh well.
>  
> I know Verell and others claim to do this job in a single
> day - they LIED to me.  LOL.
>  
> Anywho, I won't be able to come down until at least
> after the 16th of May.  But if you push it later, I can
> come down and help.
>  
> M 
> 
> --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Matt Boyd
> <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Matt Boyd <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ferrari] 308 Tech Session (Fredericksburg, VA)
> To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList"
> <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 2:23 PM
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I posted this on f-chat on both my local sub-group and the
> 308/328
> group and got precisely zero replies. Well, I did get
> replies from
> Lashdeep, Scott Carpenter, and George Parker, but I had
> told them all
> about the idea prior to posting it on f-chat.
> 
> Any interest from f-list? If not, I'll just do this job
> in my driveway.
> 
> -matt
> 
> ********************
> All,
> 
> I plan to host a technical session in the next month or two
> or so.
> Topic is going to focus on window motors/mechanism. I have
> done this
> on my car before but it is slow again, so I intend to take
> one (or
> both) windows and assemblies out, clean the gunk out, put
> in new
> grease, get everything lined up properly (this is my
> present worst
> problem), and I also have bought the window accelerators
> from Ricambi
> and will put these in.
> 
> Time permitting, I will investigate the power lock problems
> I have by
> starting with taking out the passenger door locking
> mechanism (I need
> to study this more to make sure I know what I'm getting
> into) and
> cleaning grease out of that, too.
> 
> Probably won't get to it, but I also have Birdman's
> fuseblocks to install.
> 
> Perhaps you might want to do the same on the same day, or
> maybe you
> just want to observe so you can decide if you want to do it
> on your
> own. Or maybe you just want to come hang out.
> 
> I plan to host this at the Classic Car Center in
> Fredericksburg, VA
> (http://www.classiccarcenter.net/). The Classic Car Center
> is a
> storage facility for classic cars, and they also service
> classic cars.
> Always a nice variety of cars on consignment and in active
> storage. It
> is located just a couple miles off I95 midway between DC
> and Richmond.
> They have graciously volunteered to help by hosting this
> event!
> 
> Plan for the day would be a fairly early start with coffee
> and donuts.
> Work until lunch, then go for a nice backroad drive and
> lunch (and ice
> cream at Carl's). Follow up with the afternoon
> continuing/finishing
> work.
> 
> The event will take place on a Saturday, on either 4 April,
> 11 April,
> 25 April, or 16 May. Should I rule out any of these dates
> that should
> be ruled out due to already scheduled FCA or other events?
> 
> Who would be interested? I just planned to do this myself
> in the
> garage, but thought others might be interested in joining
> in.
> 
> -Matt
> '85 Euro 308 GTS/QV
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