Some Suggestions for CC

[patrickt]

Great idea, and a lot of the stuff has already been written and posted. The authors could just copy their posts over to that forum at their convenience. Some of the simpler things are the ones that are needed the most. For instance, I posted a detailed message with photos showing a fellow ERA owner how to adjust his clutch fork/slave cylinder free play. He didn't know that he needed to make that adjustment to keep his throwout bearing from wearing prematurely. That's a 5 minute job, very easy, but if you've never done it you can easily "put it off" and eventually your clutch starts to misbehave. Other quicky jobs that come to mind would be how to use a vacuum gauge to adjust your carb, adjusting your timing, the advance in a MSD distributor. that U-Joint lube video that I posted (that was a biggee; got lots of hits), using a bump starter to get the lobes at the right spot and how you adjust your valves, both solid and hydraulic, how to read spark plugs. You know, now that I think more about it, even a "how to change your oil" tutorial might be pretty popular. Everyone that owns a Cobra has not been working on cars since they were a pre-teen and, at Cobra get-togethers, there are owners who readily admit that they know next to nothing about cars. They're a little hesitant to ask questions like, how to I bleed my brakes? Or how do I change my antifreeze and what is this "bubble and burp" business? Nowadays everybody has a digital camera and it's pretty easy to take shots when you're doing something on your Cobra and then post it in the how-to section. I think it's a great idea.