[TR] THINGS THAT MIGHT LAST FOREVER"!

[Jim Muller]

On 14 Jun 2009 at 10:01, dorpaul wrote:

> tell us what's the been a item in your rebuild
> that DIDN'T NEED REBUILDING because it was as good as new.

Good subject, except for a few points.

I've worked on or taken apart many things on my cars over the years 
only to discover that there was no real problem (or that the problem 
was elsewhere).  The GT6 gearbox rebuild last year was a good 
example.  I was looking for the source of a noise, worried about a 
bad bearing or tooth or something.  Nothing looked untoward however 
so I put it back together mostly unchanged except for renewing some 
of the brass.  Of course, it now shifts much better, has never yet 
crunched a gear (knock on wooden dashboard *! *!).

So you see, the problem is that sometimes you take something apart, 
finds nothing in particular wrong, but use the opportunity to improve 
something.  At the very least you buy peace of mind with your 
trouble.  And then there it the matter of "as good as new".  "New" 
wasn't necessarily all that good in the first place!

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+