My first post! I am Very new to MG's and I am reviving a long mistreated 74 midgit. This weekend I took it out for a nice drive and other than some occasional bucking that i attributed to water in th
Reviving a 74 midgit. I last posted about leaking antifreeze from the radiator cap of my expansion tank after a ride. I replaced the cap with a 13 Lbs cap and today after a 27 mile 50 minute ride to
I am not leaking anywhere but out of the outlet on the expansion tank. I am not seeing this on 10-15 minute rides just the longer ones. anything i should know about replacing the thermostat for the f
Okay, I have replaced the missing thermostat and did a coolant flush. And once again after a long ride in traffic she was leaking antifreeze out of the expansion bottle. After letting her cool for a
Kate and mike, I replaced the radiator cap with a 13 lbs one before i attemoted the thermostat change. That when I found out there was no thermostat and a bunch of rust wher it should have been. that
if it was a gasket wouldn't the coolant flow back into the radiator once cooled? I am seeing it full in the expansion tank. It seems to flow from will have the compression test done. ideally today bu
I am going to try and get all the way there. i am not sure about taking the highway i was going to do some back roads that may take longer but aren't highway high rpm's. Or should just punt and take
I know some of you may complain about this, but i want some tunes with my engine noise. There is only 5 3/4 inches depth in the center console and most modern radio are 6" (6 1/2" with wiring) how di
So I figured out how to really sneekely get a radio in the midget (i think someone here gave me the idea) I mounted a new stereo from the bottom of the glovebox after making a new bottom for the glov
I am skinny and was still cursing the designer of the slave. I used a 100ml syringe and some tubing connected to the nipple and pulled on it till i got no bubbles out. Took me about an hour. I used a
Okay took the car out this morning with the sun shining 2 hours later I am in home depot and the sky opens up. Luckily i put the top up but when i was driving home in the total down pour i had water
Took my 74 in to work today saw one parked in someones driveway on the way in and passed a 75+ on the way home. We did the whole honk and wave thing. last week I passed a MGA on a lovely spridget roa
First summer with the midgit. It is 98+ today here in PA. i parked her in the sun for a few hours and when i went to get in the temp gauge read 1950 ( i have a new 1800 thermostat). i drove for about
try home depot. the bolts are on the bottom shelf green box. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.
the problem may have been what brake fluid you used DOT 4 vs DOT 3. If you put the wrong fluid in it eats the seals. I bought a new master and slave from victoria british for about $100. As for blee
I used elmers spray adhesive in my 74 and it worked great. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.te
Brad I will ask you the sane question some one asked me when i was about to JUNK mine last october over a similiar issue....How much brake fluid have you poured through the lines? I went through 3 sm
This past friday at the MG2008 John Twist of MG mechanic fame ripped my car to shreds. The only thing that wasn't commented on was my tires. It was so bad that people came up to me the nest day and s
I removed the radiator from my 74 midget after determining that its clogged to the point of needing to get it recored. But waht i see now is that there is rust pieces in the thermostat hole in the en
I have been having cooling issues for a while. In march or April i and some OSHITer's flushed out a blockage at the rear of the engine block but I have still been having isssues, the heat tranfer dif