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1. Re: TD side curtain door retaining straps (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:48:19 -0500; Hi Doug, It's 5.0 inches from inside of rexine on the wheel arch to outside edge of strap on my TD. Bob /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.; /html/mg-t/2006-03/msg00008.html (7,714 bytes)
2. Re: radiator leaks (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:08:51 -0500; Just last weekend, Click & Clack, the Car Talk guys on NPR, were talking about this. They related that some years ago a reactor leak in a US submarine just could not be located. The skipper sent out; /html/mg-t/2006-03/msg00013.html (7,928 bytes)
3. Re: under dash cover board (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:30:55 -0500; There may have been a drawing for this panel in TSO some time back. I remember seeing one somewhere, and TSO is most likely place. Bob /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team; /html/mg-t/2006-03/msg00019.html (7,725 bytes)
4. Re: Winscreen bracket Installation (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:41:46 -0500; Pictures from someone will be worth a thousand or more words on this question, I suspect. Let me know if you don't get better advice, and I can try to tape paper to my car and draw a template that m; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00006.html (9,252 bytes)
5. Re: Cold Weather Starting (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:27:22 -0500; Hi Scott, Five seconds should be closer to the mark than five minutes. Check that there is slack in the choke wire when knob is fully pushed in. Doesn't have to be much, just enough to ensure that th; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00014.html (8,977 bytes)
6. Re: Cold Weather Starting (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 13:16:29 -0500; Did the TD fire up and run happily this morning? Temp was 15F in Guilford at 0600. I didn't even consider driving mine. The TD will run fine but I would freeze. BTW, cover about 1/2 the radiator sla; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00016.html (7,336 bytes)
7. Re: Next Problem... (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:43:48 -0500; Hi Scott, Many believe that the switches now available are low-quality devices. There are three or four guys in our club whose new switches have failed within the first driving season of their lives.; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00022.html (10,390 bytes)
8. Re: Moss third brake light ?? (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:04:21 -0500; The Moss third brake light is pictured in catalogue. It's a third light that can be set on top of the fuel tank and wired to illuminate when brake lights go on. You can buy theirs or make up one. Buy; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00030.html (10,618 bytes)
9. Re: Length of time (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:36:24 -0500; Five minutes or less is my guess--have never thought about it. Bob /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00045.html (7,223 bytes)
10. Re: Moss third brake light ?? (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:23:46 -0500; I don't know the answer to your question; sorry. My car was built just before turn signals were fitted. Though it has the two-wire sidelamps on front fenders and the cutout for the switch in the und; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00046.html (9,254 bytes)
11. Re: Next Problem... (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:51:36 -0500; I finally got to looking at Ron Francis site and found the SW32 switch. It is described as 1/8 pipe thread. Is that compatible with the TDs threads? Bob /// unsubscribe/change address requests to maj; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00061.html (8,141 bytes)
12. Re: Next Problem... (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:29:54 -0500; Thanks for the reassurance. I will order a switch today. Bob on /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at ht; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00063.html (8,047 bytes)
13. Re: Shifting Technique: Is this Normal? (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:32:52 -0500; Hi Scott, The momentary pause in neutral is normal good practice but the gearbox popping out of second after a quick shift is not. Synchro on these 1930-something boxes is primitive, but it works, an; /html/mg-t/2006-02/msg00086.html (8,122 bytes)
14. Re: Oil pump priming -1953 TD (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:05:43 -0500; Hi Michael, The "late" TD pumps, commencing about engine #20972, have a priming plug at the top. With the plug removed, one pours oil into the hole while someone turns the crank or pulls the starter; /html/mg-t/2006-01/msg00010.html (9,495 bytes)
15. Re: Oil Priming. (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:54:47 -0500; Eliot's pressures seem to be fine. As MG described in the MG Operation Manual, in the section on Instruments, "A pressure between 25 and 40 lb (1.75 and 2.8 kg/cm2 ) is shown under normal running co; /html/mg-t/2006-01/msg00021.html (8,699 bytes)
16. Re: Oil pump priming -1953 TD (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:19:18 -0500; True, it does take a bit longer for pressure to pump up when engine has been unused for a month, but it should snap up to full pressure with 1/2 second or so. To minimise that time when pressure is; /html/mg-t/2006-01/msg00022.html (8,816 bytes)
17. Re: Oil Priming. (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:39:39 -0500; Quite right. We do obsess about oil pressure. Mae West achieved fame in several ways, one of which was a good turn of phrase. She took credit for "too much of a good thing is never enough" and "nothi; /html/mg-t/2006-01/msg00024.html (7,956 bytes)
18. Re: Oil pump priming -1953 TD (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:58:03 -0500; Ingenious priming mechanism you worked up. Possibly a TSO article in the works, with photos? As for the gauge, I believe it's self-purging of air. Mine has been disconnected twice and neither time h; /html/mg-t/2006-01/msg00028.html (8,269 bytes)
19. Re: Attachment of Cowl Rubber (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:48:38 -0500; It's attached with nails, little flat-head nails. They are steel, but those in my TD have darkened to the color of old brass. The heads are about 1/8" diameter; I don't know the wire gauge or their; /html/mg-t/2005-12/msg00026.html (7,597 bytes)
20. Re: earth strap location (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:03:17 -0500; Facing the flywheel end of the engine/gearbox assembly, it fastens to one of the bell housing bolts on the left side of vertical center line. Memory says that it's the one at approx 11 o'clock, but; /html/mg-t/2005-12/msg00039.html (7,890 bytes)

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