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141. Re: University Motors (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:46:15 -0700
My 72B, #262677, has an interesting past. Rostyle wheels, originally blaze red (meaning orange). I acquired it as a rusty body shell and had it professionally restored and painted as black tulip ove
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00021.html (7,790 bytes)

142. Re: MGB generator (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:52:44 -0700
Thanks for the info. I hadn't thought about the regulator but then the smoke is still fresh. Last time I had a regulator and alternator both go out was on my '74 Toyota Landcruiser about five or six
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00022.html (7,721 bytes)

143. Re: MGB running problem (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:12:47 -0700
From your description, my main two thoughts were either a fouling spark plug or a choke problem. So as you said, you can run it a bit while its running poorly and then stop the car and check the spar
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00197.html (10,710 bytes)

144. Re: MG's and Skis and Nader (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:21:15 -0700
Last election (2000), one of my co-workers was running for a local office under the Green Party. Some of his ideas sounded pretty good to an old liberal like me and I even nicknamed him "herbal" at w
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00286.html (7,656 bytes)

145. Re: Rostyle cleaning (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:30:29 -0700
I took all my rostyle wheels to a local place that makes headstones and they sandblasted them for me at a cost of about $5 USD per wheel. Then I spray painted them with a silver spray paint (argent s
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00428.html (8,075 bytes)

146. Re: Speedometer Repair (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:40:57 -0700
Three possibilities come to mind, from my own personal experience - 1. The inner drive cable is broke - this can happen if there is too sharp of a bend in the cable somewhere between the two right an
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00430.html (8,282 bytes)

147. Re: Quicktime Player (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 08:36:50 -0700
Alternately, you could download and install the latest version of Media Player - it will then take over all the media file formats again. But knowing Micro$soft, I would suspect that you would get th
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00029.html (7,413 bytes)

148. RE: Exhaust hoses (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:13:50 -0700
I was thinking bad connection either with the batteries or their connection to the starter or the battery ground. From my own personal experience, when there is a bad ground between the engine and th
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00033.html (7,552 bytes)

149. Re: Bugs (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:42:39 -0700
Bugs? In November? Geez, around here, we lose all our bugs in September. But then with temps in the teens and four inches of fresh snow, we don't have to worry about bugs anytime soon. Meanwhile, my
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00058.html (8,148 bytes)

150. Re: Rear Leaf Springs (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:35:57 -0700
Yes, its common for the new leaf springs to raise the rear of the car by as much as 1 1/2". However, to fix that, there are lowering kits available. They are blocks and extended u-bolts and are a bit
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00115.html (8,291 bytes)

151. Re: Straight 40 (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:46:07 -0700
Yes, I used to use straight 40W and even 50W in my first MGB. That was well over twenty five years or so ago when I was a bit skeptic of the new modern multi-viscosity oils. I don't see any problem i
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00116.html (8,921 bytes)

152. Re: Straight 40 (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:41:33 -0700
I'll have to agree with Max. Because as I mentioned in my email, I remember being reluctant to using multi-viscosity oils back in the late 70s, because they were new and I was a skeptic. And yes, it
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00137.html (9,566 bytes)

153. Re: Looking for a cylinder head... (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:44:08 -0700
I believe I have one but I'm posting to the list so someone can pipe in on whether it is the correct head or not. When I bought my 71BGT, the car came with what was later described as an Austin Marin
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00286.html (7,824 bytes)

154. RE: Why nylock nuts? (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:33:21 -0700
The only place I recall seeing nylock nuts on one of my MGs was on my 71BGT on the bolts attaching the drive shaft to the rear of the transmission. And they very well could have been put there by a p
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00323.html (8,351 bytes)

155. Re: A victim again (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:28:20 -0700
Most programs have a built in protection for this problem just in case another program tries to steal its default status. Eudora is one. Go in it's not the default mailer." Next time you start Eudor
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00328.html (7,456 bytes)

156. Re: MGB - How to put it back together (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:48:00 -0700
Quite a few of us have gone through a complete restore, ending up wondering where something went or how it goes together. So besides the catalogues, this list is the other key resource. Just ask or d
/html/mgs/2003-11/msg00447.html (8,430 bytes)

157. instrumentation death (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:50:54 -0600
Well I almost when a full month without driving my LBCs. I fractured my right ankle on a mountain hike on Sept 1 (Labor Day) and could not drive for a week and then after that, I could only manage dr
/html/mgs/2003-10/msg00017.html (8,195 bytes)

158. RE: Instrumentation death (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:53:46 -0600
I'm not really sure about the ignition relay. But #3 fuse is a distinct possibility. I didn't want to pop the hood in my employer's parking lot thus lending the myth of unreliable British cars to my
/html/mgs/2003-10/msg00024.html (7,741 bytes)

159. Re: instrumentation death - Solved!? (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 14:35:37 -0600
Thanks for the replies to my 72B instrumentation death. As with most electrical problems, it took an interesting turn or two but it may be fixed now. First, the #3 fuse was blown near the top but it
/html/mgs/2003-10/msg00044.html (8,047 bytes)

160. Re: mgb overdrive [tunnel top cover] (score: 1)
Author: David Councill <dcouncil@imt.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:37:09 -0600
I have located what I think is the cover. From your description, it looks like it is. Its an oval black cover with the hole for the shifter. That hole has the four bolt holes that would line up with
/html/mgs/2003-10/msg00186.html (7,974 bytes)

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