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Re: [Mgs] bonnet release adjustments

To: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>, MG Mailing List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] bonnet release adjustments
From: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:37:24 -0400
I had the same problem but I solved it by unscrewing and screwing in 
the plunger thing on the bonnet.  It can be adjusted using a flat 
head screw driver and then adjusting the nut.  It took a while but 
since have never had any trouble.


At 09:26 PM 9/14/2009, Eric Erickson wrote:
>Aaron Whiteman wrote:
>>List gurus,
>>
>>I can't seem to keep the bonnet locked down.  If I hit a bump, pop 
>>and I'm relying on the second latch to keep it in 
>>place.  Fortunately, it hasn't happened at speed yet, but this bothers me.
>
>Yes, mine has been doing the same for years.  I even added a new, 
>stiffer plate for where the catch mounts to the bonnet because I 
>thought that was flexing and causing the issue.  I have moved the 
>bonnet back and forward and side to side.  Adjusted the catch up and 
>down.  Just about everything you can imagine.  It gets better for a 
>while (for months) and then I hit a bump and it goes (luckily for my 
>track work we are required to have an additional safety "strap" to 
>catch the bonnet if it happened to fall off the secondary catch, so 
>I am not worried about it going over my head).
>
>So please - throw you advice to Aaron because I want to catch some of it!
>
>I am right on the verge of putting pins through my lovely aluminium 
>bonnet because it has "popped" one too many times when I have been 
>on the track - and even though *I* know it ain't going anywhere, 
>track marshals get nervous and I have been black flagged more than 
>once for this, grrrrr.
>
>Thanks for asking that, Aaron!
>
>
>
>
>Eric
>
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Barrie
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