After spending all of December in southwest Florida, we have just spent all of January in southeast Florida. It wasn't intentional, but I think we may have officially turned into snow birds. We weren't visiting very many clubs or shops in Florida, because we have done most of that in the past couple of years. But it is driving season down here, and more importantly it is tech season here with lots of people working on their cars.

One discouraging happenstance immediately after the first of the year was finding out that Bravenet had discontinued their (mostly free) Site that I have been managing for MGAguru.com and from SpridgetGuru.com. They pulled the plug so suddenly that I didn't even have a chance to notify the 140-remaining linked member web sites, so there was no opportunity to make other arrangements. Sometimes free is not such a good deal.

Brake booster functional section drawing

In some spare time, this month I have been updating quite a few tech articles and posting some new pages on MGAguru.com. Some of the more significant ones would be: Failure modes for the power brake booster; Cross reference list for MGA Twin Cam timing cover seal; MGA center arm rest with a stowage box; Electrifying an MGA (a subject coming of age).

In four more Fridays (and a couple of Saturdays) at Tech Central in Bonita Springs, FL, we had good progress on a few projects. The low mileage and very original Miata reassembly project we had

Adapting a fresh V8 into a vintage Ranger

been helping with for two months is finally finished and running, back on the road after 20 years idle. After considerable struggle, the long dormant Jaguar XJ6 fuel tank

Tough go, getting the fuel tank out of the Jaguar

Resetting miles to make up for broken cable

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