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21. RE: tips evaluating '69 MGB (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:12:00 +0100; "...The owner said it ran just a few months ago but we couldn't get it Hmmm. I'd take what the owner said with a pinch of salt - it's his word against the evidence in front of you. Assume nothing. Ha; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00081.html (10,872 bytes)
22. RE: 1970 MGB GT Running on. (Dieselling) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 14:20:44 +0100; Could just be a build-up of carbon deposits on the valves and cylinder heads. Some modern petrols, and petrol additives you can buy at motor factors, claim to clean this, but if you've got a major bu; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00143.html (8,917 bytes)
23. RE: Old School vs New School (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:40:13 +0100; Fantastic! I must admit, my initial reaction was that a Frogeye wouldn't have a hope against a modern 3l V6 car. Then I realised how much weight had been added to the Peugeot, sound system, play stat; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00168.html (8,910 bytes)
24. RE: Odd Problem... (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:52:43 +0100; When you turn the key but nothing happens, do you get a loud click from the engine, or absolutely nothing? If you get a loud click you may have the same problem that I do right now. I'll turn the key; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00038.html (8,059 bytes)
25. RE: MC R&R (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:12:51 +0100; Get inside the footwell of your car. Up on the bulkhead, directly behind the master cylinders, is a big rubber plug you can remove to give you access to the master cylinder mounting bolts. Makes lif; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00208.html (7,482 bytes)
26. RE: Is this for real? (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:00:58 +0100; Nanjing Automotive have stated that production of the MG TF (the new one, naturally!) and the ZT (big saloon) will restart in Longbridge as well as the Chinese production, maybe in 2007. But I have m; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00219.html (8,806 bytes)
27. RE: Bugeye Group..... 1967 Austin A60 Pickup (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:38:54 +0100; ..."Most 12v to 110v inverters I know of require negative ground"... Couldn't you just reverse the two wires going into the cigarette lighter plug? The inverter shouldn't care about the polarity of t; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00223.html (8,554 bytes)
28. RE: Bugeye Group..... 1967 Austin A60 Pickup (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:27:28 +0100; Fair enough point. But, unlike your 8-track, I wouldn't expect Larry's inverter to have an external metal case, grounded to it's -ve supply (although I've never come across one of these devices in pe; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00225.html (8,836 bytes)
29. RE: Insurance (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:48:32 +0100; With all this talk of insurance, one bit of advice that hasn't been mentioned: Once you get the evaluation form, FILL IT IN AND RETURN IT ASAP!!! Learnt that the hard way. I took photos of my previou; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00025.html (9,301 bytes)
30. RE: Insurance (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 14:20:22 +0100; ..."Richard, maybe their insurance company was your's ...... ;-)"... Eric, I Doubt it - I was insured through the MG Owners Club insurance services, I wouldn't have thought they'd be insuring a Vauxh; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00028.html (8,279 bytes)
31. RE: [OT] RE: Insurance / Vauxhall Corsa (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:27:29 +0100; Yep, that's what it would have looked like before driving into the back of an innocent MG BGT... Richard & Sammy ________________________________________________________________________ This message; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00035.html (7,314 bytes)
32. Glovebox key from code (UK) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:11:50 +0100; Anyone know where I could get a new glovebox key cut from the lock code? (preferably in the UK). There's a number on the barrel that says 931 (I'm not too worried about giving out this number publicl; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00146.html (8,976 bytes)
33. RE: Glovebox key from code (UK) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:14:42 +0100; Hmmm - I can't believe the door/ignition key and the boot/glovebox key for my car were EVER the same - the door/ignition key is quite a lot bigger. The PO bought a new lock set (he only installed the; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00150.html (9,305 bytes)
34. RE: Glovebox key from code (UK) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:38:32 +0100; Sorry Paul, my screw-up, of course the door key is the same style as the boot and the glove-box. The car came to me with no keys at all, apart from the ones with the new lock set that the PO had boug; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00170.html (9,359 bytes)
35. RE: Glovebox key from code (UK) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:16:04 +0100; "...having removed the barrel once you should be able to remove the tumblers from it, and that way *any* key that physically slides in will be able to turn it..." An excellent idea - I'll do exactly; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00174.html (8,889 bytes)
36. RE: Glovebox key from code (UK) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:39:29 +0100; Just realised where I got that wrong assumption that one key would do ignition and doors, with a smaller one for the boot. That's the way my Spitfire was... Richard & Sammy ('73 Black Tulip BGT) ____; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00177.html (8,447 bytes)
37. RE: Glovebox key from code (UK) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:51:01 +0100; Well, I came up with a simple solution - I removed the barrel, stuck the new key for my other new locks into it, and then filed down any protruding tumblers. I can now open the glovebox with the new; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00221.html (8,875 bytes)
38. Pints (was RE: Thermometer) (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:52:55 +0100; Bill said ..."A pint must be a pint after all"... Well, your American pint certainly isn't a pint. A proper (imperial) pint has 20 fl.oz. in it, not 16, although those fluid ounces are 4% smaller, ma; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00248.html (7,617 bytes)
39. RE: oil gallery plugs.. (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:23:37 +0100; Checking the Moss UK website (www.moss-europe.co.uk/MossUK/ProductList.aspx?SubSubCategoryID=MGB_DS00 3B1-B) they list just 4 off of core plug 2K8169, so I suspect those are for coolant galleries; no; /html/mgs/2006-07/msg00249.html (8,080 bytes)
40. RE: Engine trouble (score: 1): Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>; Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:39:41 +0100; Hi Roger, and sorry to hear of your disaster! Blue smoke is a sure sign of oil getting into the combustion chamber. My gut instinct on this one is a valve or valve spring failure. But a piston is als; /html/mgs/2006-08/msg00003.html (9,364 bytes)

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