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To: ek_john_luthy <luthy@cesd.servtech.com>
Subject: Datsun parts for MG's
From: "Gary R. Burrell" <burrelgr@tuns.ca>
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 12:41:20 +0100
On Wed, 17 May 1995, ek_john_luthy wrote:

>       Now that someone else brought up the subject of datsun cars, I 
> have a friend (not my only one) that has an very old datsun p/u with a 
> 1200 cc engine he is convinced that it shares many parts with a MG mig.
>       If any one knows about this please e-mail me back. His machine 
> shop lost his distributor drive shaft and the oil pump drive shaft.
> :-(((
> 
>       Thanks   LEX 

Well, now that you mention it, my MGB is running very happily with it's
geeenuuuine Nissan (Datsun), rocker shaft and rockers.  I ordered the 
rocker shaft (for my MGB )through a friend of mine (who owns a garage) 
from his part supplier when I was rebuilding my head, and it arrived in 
a genuine Nissan package.  So we went to his computer and sure enough the 
rocker shaft had the same (supplier) part number for both the MGB and 
Nissan B18 ? or B1800  ? truck.  The rockers for this truck (genine 
Nissan) were a fraction of the cost of the MGB ones so we ordered them in 
on the off  chance they whould be the same.  Well they were (actually 
they had been  strengthed in a couple of spots), so I used them instead 
of getting my  old ones rebushed  (it was cheaper).

Suposedly Nissan had bought the engine design from BMC or B(ps)L so the 
parts were basically the same. I don't know of any other parts that fit 
but I would be interested in finding out. 

Gary   


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