Thread: Project Sebring GT Spyder

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V8, I hope to be posting some collected info this week. I have to admit that the adjustable valve is very intriguing and I am very tempted to pay the price.

Now that the PCV and oil leaks were once again thought to be under control (fingers crossed) I spent quite some time under the car cleaning up the mess. Oil was everywhere. After several hours I think I got most of it.

The next thing on the list was the Lucas turn signals in the front. If you recall, I had trouble with one of them and soldered the wires on. Well, this time one was pretty much destroyed when the tire got into it. Mostly, this was my fault because I pulled out some caster during the front end alignment. Remember when I said that the front tires were better centered now? Turns out that was a double edged sword. The Lucas signals are very long at nearly 3 inches! Most of that length is due to the big rubber boot that is needed to cover the weird connections. The tire contacted the boot and proceeded to rip it and the wires it held to shreds. Luckily, this time it was blowing parking light fuses and not turn signal fuses and I was able to make it home without having to deal with it on the road.





There was no way to make the Lucas lights work as they were so I made a sort of British/USA hybrid. I used the front portion of the Lucas rubber boot, which also holds the lens in (it’s complicated, trust me), and an old school 1157 light socket from a Ford, I think. It was hanging on the rack at Orielly’s. I did have to make a couple of new steel plates to hold the new sockets since the Lucas plate had a hole that was too big. I made those from 18 gauge which is very close to what Lucas used.

You can see how much shorter the new setup is than the old Lucas mess.



I now have a bunch of clearance. I also added a nylon mounting point to zip tie the harness to the body.

These two shots show the before and after on the same tire.





Well, let’s see. I have a replica of a classic British car, but it seems to have developed many of the “classic” British car issues. It is determined to leak oil (remember, if there ain’t any oil under ‘em, there ain’t none in ‘em) and I seem to be plagued by Lucas electric problems even though I only have 4 actual Lucas parts in the car. It’s a curse, I tell you, it’s got to be some kind of curse!!!