Sunday, January 15, 2023
Saturday, December 24, 2022 -- Christmas Eve in Big Bear
Good Breakfast Place
On the main street.
Had to wait a while.
Hike on the Cougar Ridge Trail.
Over 7,000 feet and climbing.
Icy, snowy & muddy on the trail.
Lake is partially frozen.
Freeze line
Sunday, November 6, 2022 -- French & Italian Car Show @ Woodley Park (Van Nuys) - Part 47
Alfa Romeo Montreal.
V8 with rear transaxle.
Boat-tail Alfa Duetto and the later version with the chopped tail.
Sculptural...
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Tuesday, December 27, 2022 -- TJMK's 2006 RX-8 - Broken Right Front Exterior Door Handle
The passenger side exterior door handle had pulled out!
Strange failure...
Took off the door panel and the intermediate panel to access the back side of the exterior door handle.
The window cable mechanism syncs to the door inner intermediate panel. Seems overly complicated.
When reinstalling the intermediate panel, the cable mechanism has to be correctly synced to the window motor for the mechanism to work correctly.
It's quite tricky.
This is the back of the door exterior sheetmetal panel, behind the rear door handle mounting point.
The handle base that's bolted to the panel is broken where the release lever connects.
The part that broke is plastic and looks not so robust.
The front area of the door handle mounting backing plate (plastic).
The backing plate is held in place with two 10 mm head bolts.
Found this small spring at the bottom of the door panel.
Must have come off when the rear of the handle base broke.
The RX-8 has a large plastic intermediate panel between the door inner trim panel and the door structure.
A bit of an unusual design (not like the door panels that I took apart on Toyotas).
Intermediate panel reinstalled.
Will leave the door inner panel off, while waiting for the replacement broken part to arrive (ordered online).
The rotary engine is entirely behind the front wheel centerline (front-mid-engine).
T plans to replace the plugs and coils. Looks like a tough job due to lack of working room.
Cleaned all the wheels.
Very dirty and most are curbed.
Used a file to smooth out some of the curb rash.
From 10 feet away, looks OK.
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