[Roadsters] Twisties & Posties (Rust) - Heads Up

[peter harrison]

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Just doing some anal tidying up on Eliza waiting for the 5 speed to be 
assembled and noticed that there was rust under ALL the twisties. Posties 
were fine.

My car is a California car, recently (4 years ago) seriously refurbished ( 
by a PO, Bunny)  and other than washing and a few rainy days, not exposed to 
water. The posties typically come with a nylon washer that seems to keep the 
postie away from the paint work, but the twisties (at least as installed on 
Eliza) still had metal contact, since they are not 'flush' and the 
'standard' washer was not thick enough to keep the twistie away from the 
body, hence rust.

So, I just cut some rubber 'gaskets' to shape, polished the paint, polished 
the twistie and reinstalled.

Just an FYI FWIIS ( or is that an IRS)

Peter
Eliza '70 SPL TOADSAN