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181. Re: MGB engine removal (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:08:23 -0500
Most use a bracket or a chain attached to the rocker cover studs. Seems scary to suspend this chunk of iron from two little studs, but it's the usual way. Others use a rope or cargo strap around the
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00413.html (7,956 bytes)

182. Re: Replacing the heater core (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:19:11 -0500
Yes, unfortunately, you do. Once you get the assembly out of the car, the heater radiator separates easily. Your local radiator shop can usually repair it, as it's a hefty piece of metal. It's a $25
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00417.html (8,017 bytes)

183. Re: Replacing the heater core (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:45:20 -0500
The front does pop off, but I found that I had to remove the entire heater box to remove the core. Bob On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:54:56 -0800 Barrie Robinson <barrier@bconnex.net> writes:
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00423.html (7,678 bytes)

184. Re: MGB engine removal (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:20:45 -0500
Sure, that would work. You need to have the bonnet off or completely upright to have the overhead clearance for the come-along, but the balance of the engine&gearbox assembly is such that your metho
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00433.html (9,413 bytes)

185. Re: Replacing the heater core (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:03:10 -0500
That you could remove the core easily is an encouraging thing, against the possibility that I might have to remove a core again someday. But the core removal project from my '72 GT was a struggle fr
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00446.html (8,310 bytes)

186. Re: Darn! (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:55:40 -0500
Oh, not the dreaded pedal drip! Both the brake MC and clutch MC are subject to leaking at the pushrod end of the unit. Most of that fluid will drip down the corresponding pedal, but if you have a dra
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00462.html (9,143 bytes)

187. Re: Advice on selling 52 MGTD (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:27:42 -0500
The adverts are in TSO, the magazine. When at the NEMGT.ORG homepage, click on the TSO page, then on the for sale section. At the bottom of the page is the contact information with name, address, ph
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00489.html (8,535 bytes)

188. Re: Darn! (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:21:43 -0500
Bottom mount or firewall mount, the fluid level should be checked from time to time. MG and other makers put that on their list of scheduled maintenance items. Plastic reservoirs sure make the job ea
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00516.html (8,107 bytes)

189. Re: MGB Replacement gas tank (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:31:26 -0500
Waxoyl is a British product that appears to be a mix of beeswax, paraffin and other secret stuff with evaporating solvents to make it liquid. When warm, it is sprayed onto surfaces and into crevasses
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00551.html (8,387 bytes)

190. Re: MGB Replacement gas tank (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:46:54 -0500
Twenty years ago I lived in Maine. Noting that the oil delivery trucks and the vehicles owned by gas station people lacked the attractive rust holes that everyone else had on cars more than three ye
/html/mgs/2004-02/msg00596.html (8,409 bytes)

191. XPAG camshaft & lifters (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:49:52 -0500
In the December TSO, Jim Finne wrote of his observations of wear on camshafts of larger-than-original cam circle when installed with certain lifters. Has anyone opened an engine since reading that ar
/html/mgs/2004-01/msg00233.html (6,997 bytes)

192. Re: MGB Parts - Yours or to the Dump (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:50:04 -0500
When last seen, Norm was slipping around in the snow of Fairfield CT. On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 07:25:56 -0600 "larryrex" <larryrex@awesomenet.net> writes:
/html/mgs/2004-01/msg00390.html (8,435 bytes)

193. Re: safe driving tip (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:19:03 -0500
Once upon a time I was driving my 220Sb Mercedes through the elevated area in Bridgeport. Ahead a cast-iron bathtub fell out of a truck. Surprisingly, it did not shatter. In what seemed to be slow mo
/html/mgs/2004-01/msg00443.html (7,406 bytes)

194. Re: Heritage Ceritificate (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:12:57 -0500
MGB-GTs listed for sale in November issue of CT MG Club newsletter: 1972, in Charlestown RI, Jeff Yorty, 401-364-1693 1974, Tundra Green, 860-927-5338, exit4music@earthlink.net I don't know anything
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00050.html (6,674 bytes)

195. Re: Original Prices of MGs (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:21:35 -0500
An altimiter seems to be an instrument in search of a purpose to me also, yet they were fitted to Duesenbergs. Come to think of it, there was a modicum of ostentation included with their Bentley-like
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00069.html (7,712 bytes)

196. Re: Fw: Headlights (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:47:42 -0500
One of our club members has headlamps with a running light fitted inside. I asked him for his thoughts about your question. His reply is below. Bob Bob, I have a pair of Lucas H4 Halogen Conversions
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00131.html (7,475 bytes)

197. Re: Gauge troubleshooting (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:10:31 -0500
There's another possible cause for optimistic reading and then jerking around. The cable, mechanical tach or mechanical speedo, turns a cup inside of which is a magnet that's attached to the needle.
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00194.html (7,742 bytes)

198. Re: MG's and Skis (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:52:53 -0500
Do you know the tire pressures he uses? I forget (though in truth Ralph Nader actually had them right in his book) but they are quite unusual pressures, like 12 psi front and 26 rear. Inflated to th
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00253.html (8,858 bytes)

199. Re: MG's and Skis (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:29:48 -0500
Ralph Nader always seemed a bit sanctimonious to me, yet it wasn't he who can take exclusive credit for killing the 'vair. General Motors' unsavory activities, once they came to light, may well have
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00254.html (9,480 bytes)

200. Re: MG's and Skis (score: 1)
Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:32:11 -0500
It's difficult, when assessing the guy, to separate what we don't admire in him from information that he brought to public attention. WIth reference to Unsafe At Any Speed, he was not lying in the as
/html/mgs/2003-12/msg00280.html (10,609 bytes)

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