Congratulations Bud. .060 over, it probably runs a bit faster huh?
Larry Hoy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Bud Krueger
>Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 5:48 PM
>To: MG List
>Subject: It's Alive (77B)
>
>
>Finally! Yesterday afternoon the commuting machine came alive after more than
>three months in various stages of undress. Did its 20 minutes at 1800-2000 rpm
>for the bedding-in ceremony, then back into the garage for retorquing and
>resetting. Nothing exotic, ended up with .060" over 8.7:1 pistons, a sleeve in
>#2 cylinder, valves redone, mild regrind cam, new oil pump, double row chain
>system. While checking for oil pressure I put my compression gauge on #1 and
>read 165 psi after the third compression stroke (without the rings seated yet).
>Yesterday, while doing the cam bed, I intentionally left the crankcase breather
>pipe open ended -- not a sign of smoke!
>
>More to come - many lessons were learned - I'll be putting some web pages
>together on the entire process.
>
>--
>Bud Krueger
>http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
>52TD
>77MGB
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