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121. Re: oil>>>>>slick (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:24:12 +0500; Check the tappet covers below the carbs. If that side of the engine is caked in greasy filth, you've likely found the problem in a perished gasket. Happens a lot. Replacing the gaskets is cheap and s; /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00706.html (7,790 bytes)
122. Re: 67 BGT Caliper Rebuild (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:33:14 +0500; Don't do it. Even though it's held together with regular hex-head bolts, resist the temptation. They were never meant to be split, and it's not part of any refurbishing procedure. The only case in wh; /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00710.html (7,175 bytes)
123. Re: Wooden Dash (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 02:57:13 +0500; Is it just me, or does the wood kit make the rubber-bumper B pictured look rather tacky? The wood itself looks nice, but next to the exposed portions of the plastic dash? Not my cuppatea. -- Jay Tilt; /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00778.html (6,960 bytes)
124. Re: What to do? (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 12:12:25 +0500; Yeah! Or make him DO the work while you loom over him with a big stick. Bash him in the head when he makes a mistake. Even better, clock him with the oil pressure gage. Guarantee he'll never ignore i; /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00850.html (7,041 bytes)
125. Tach Glass (was: '52 Alvis FOR SALE) (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 04:01:21 +0500; Might try a picture framing shop. Once I was in a shop getting something framed, and earlier that day I had smashed the glass in my temperature gage (after extracting a mummified spider). I saw thei; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00112.html (7,036 bytes)
126. Re: VW LUCAS??? (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:33:55 +0500; You know why he chose you as subject for his preaching, don't you? Lucas is the only company Bosch is allowed to make fun of (was, anyway). :) The first place I heard it was (you guessed it) right ne; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00206.html (7,247 bytes)
127. Re: Brake Fluid Loss (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:33:52 +0500; MGB's here in the US had the adsorption cannister stashed there from 1970 on. A superb example of cursed pollution control equipment providing dubious benefit while simultaneously denying us performa; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00207.html (7,125 bytes)
128. Re: MG 1100's everywhere (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 01:26:31 +0500; Posh is about the mildest word I'd use to describe it. "MG-badged Rolls" comes closer. -- Jay Tilton / jtilton@vt.edu (vt = Virginia Tech) http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/J/jtilton/index.html; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00221.html (6,993 bytes)
129. Re: MGA Brake Problem & Update (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 22:18:38 +0500; I've always had a feeling the beasts would be indifferent to blood sacrifice. Hope they had a first aid kit handy. -- Jay Tilton / jtilton@vt.edu (vt = Virginia Tech) http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/J/jtil; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00270.html (7,117 bytes)
130. Re: Brake Problems - Fix it, or don't drive!!! (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:59:36 +0500; For those do-it-yourselfers who are hesitant to shuck out forty bucks for the Eezibleed system, I remind you of my Homebrew Eezibleed page. http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/J/jtilton/mg/eeziblee.html Dependi; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00284.html (7,998 bytes)
131. Re: Canned Spray Paint (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:13:21 +0500; Agree there. Sending unsolicited images or other enormous files through e-mail is not a wise use of resources. Mailbombing isn't the best way to make friends, either. For those who don't have a web p; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00307.html (7,340 bytes)
132. Re: clutch part 2 (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 06:35:27 +0500; Good for you. I feel a peculiar obligation to mention that it's worth your time (and the kid's) to include practical lessons on safety. Too many times I've taken a shortcut or done something stupid t; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00328.html (8,466 bytes)
133. Re: Mailbox soft limit exceeded (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 22:39:50 +0500; It's the result of a combination of SNAFU's. Dissecting the message header shows three key lines. Basically, bgurney hasn't cleared out his mailbox. (Eight megabytes! Sheesh!) An automated representa; /html/mgs/1996-02/msg00412.html (9,066 bytes)
134. Re: Oil/Grease in MGB steering rack. (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 14:32:10 +0500; there cover That's the one. Underneath the cover you'll find three pieces to the damper assembly, one of which is a short spring. The spring isn't loaded enough to make things fly apart, so don't fea; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00165.html (7,844 bytes)
135. Re: Front License Plates (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 02:35:44 +0500; A kit as such isn't required, just the plate holder (available from any of your regular pile of MGB parts dealers) and two screws that go through the plate holder into those holes in your bumper. FWI; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00192.html (8,028 bytes)
136. One word--Burgundy! (was: Why do these things . . .) (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:34:33 +0500; That's the very best argument against black. No need to justify it. Ooooo. That's nice. Mmmmm, yeeah. That's the very best argument for burgundy. No need to justify it. How peculiar. Let's see if I c; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00508.html (7,961 bytes)
137. Re: Front bearings (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:22:27 +0500; I don't think I have to worry about understatement when I say "yikes." Please tell me it was a backyard mechanic who did that and not a pro. -- Jay Tilton / jtilton@vt.edu (vt = Virginia Tech) http:; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00530.html (6,872 bytes)
138. Re: Light blue, Primrose Yellow... (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:22:29 +0500; Golly, Denise. I'm not one to argue with the voice of experience, and I don't want to incur the wrath of Your Holiness, but are you sure you're not confusing Sandstone with Sandglow? As for "babyshit; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00531.html (7,881 bytes)
139. Re: Where are the 76B's ! (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 03:37:57 +0500; Hiya, John. Your 76 wiring is just like my 77. That enormous octopus of wires ain't no fun at all. It's not called "malfunction junction" for nothing. :) I'll admit, your question made me do some ser; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00612.html (9,507 bytes)
140. Re: MGTD frame color (score: 1): Author: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton); Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 00:54:45 +0500; BWAHAHAHA! That one's definitely going in the "Didn't Yogi Berra say that?" file. -- Jay Tilton / jtilton@vt.edu (vt = Virginia Tech) http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/J/jtilton/index.html; /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00649.html (6,725 bytes)

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