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141. electrical success and mystery (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:36:27 -0400
Hi ye knowledgeable ones in vaporland, I bought a '76B last May and in my ignorance (which was complete), I hadn't noticed the tach did not work. Just too excited I guess about my 1st real toy car (m
/html/mgs/1999-06/msg01221.html (8,889 bytes)

142. Re: That damn oil spot! (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:17:45 -0400
I learned from the list last year that paint remover and kitty litter did a fair job. I can attest to that to more than a little degree by the many fewer spots on my driveway and garage floor. Proble
/html/mgs/1999-06/msg01234.html (8,626 bytes)

143. Dumb owner's questions-re U-joint replacement (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 May 99 8:03:53 EDT
Here's some ultradumb questions that I would never have the nerve to ask in person re removing the driveshaft/propeller to replace u-joints. 1. with my car ('76B) on blocks and in gear, how do I rota
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00003.html (7,550 bytes)

144. hints on u-joint cap(s) removal (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 12:06:06 -0400
Hi all, sunny days gone to waste with my B's drive shaft on the workbench. The saga of the clunk described in my inquiry of a while ago was explained by the movement of the u-joint in a random third
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00416.html (8,350 bytes)

145. MG collectables (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 May 99 8:15:51 EDT
When I was in Sydney last Spring, me wife and I walked into this cute little store called the Sydney Cigarette Card Co (info@cardframing.com.au). I guess the weird habits of British cigarette manufac
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00871.html (7,273 bytes)

146. RE: Windshield to body seal (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 May 99 9:30:40 EDT
SNIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoa. Heat sink...don't want to start a flame war but wood is a notoriously poor heat sink. Prove to me that the heatsink properties of a wooden clothespin is the rationale. Her
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00876.html (8,790 bytes)

147. engine type question - just discovered my machine is a bastard (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:41:48 -0400
Hi all, I was just checking my numbers...car #, engine #, etc., when I realized, after consulting Clausinger, that my '76B without o/d has a 76B engine listed as an o/d. (18V801 vs 18V802...). I was
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg01003.html (7,519 bytes)

148. Re: Front License Plate Removal 77B (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 May 99 8:17:20 EDT
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 24 May 1999 02:29:00 -0400 Andy, In NJ, we are required to have front and back plates. I put the front plate BEHIND the front rubber bumper of my '76B but sticking o
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg01107.html (8,536 bytes)

149. Re: [Fwd: Parking Lot Dings] (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 May 99 12:45:09 EDT
[snip] I too parked miles from anyone in a parking lot, but it seemed not to matter. The dings appeared. Years ago, I had a stronger vindictive streak. I used to put small stones in the tire 'airfil
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg01440.html (9,420 bytes)

150. used air pump wanted, circa '76 (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 99 13:31:57 EST
Lovely Spring Day and my '76B's air pump has seized. (Why do these things happen as a consequence of repairing something else, like a water pump?) Since I'll be replacing the Z-S with HI4's sometime
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg00155.html (7,984 bytes)

151. Transmission Clunk (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 99 12:46:35 EDT
The orangish devil ('76B) came out of hibernation yesterday for the first time since the end of November. Over the winter, I did my 1st mechanical repair: water pump, successfully. On its (and my) re
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg00557.html (7,550 bytes)

152. wanted: url on techtip re u-joints (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:56:36 -0400
I remember reading a TechTip on how to redo u-joints. Somewhere... Anyone remember where? Bill ** Dr. Bill Saidel Assoc. Prof. Vocal phone (609) 225-6336 Department of Biology FAX (609) 225-6312 Scie
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg00694.html (8,000 bytes)

153. Re: archive (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:40:36 -0400
George, This is one list URL. http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=mgs There might be more. Bill ** Dr. Bill Saidel Assoc. Prof. Vocal phone (609) 225-6336 Department of Biology FAX (609) 225-6
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg01004.html (7,176 bytes)

154. Filling a transmission...what kind of container? (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 09:46:49 -0400
OK, I have some rudimentary engineering background and trying to fill the tranny of a '76B through the side hole from below is a p**-poor design. I guess the electronics wizards designed it. Anyway,
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg01006.html (8,638 bytes)

155. more consistent metallic clunk (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 99 22:40:51 EDT
Hi all, Chapter 1 was a transmission related clunk - I thought. Chapter 2 was a changing of the tranny oil ... messy but done and no metallic chunks. Here's chapter 3 and I request suggestions from t
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg01389.html (7,683 bytes)

156. Re: (forw) FIA homologation #? (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 99 21:18:37 EDT
from the Oxford English Dictionary, magnifying glass version: Homologation: the action of homologating (don't you just love dictionaries). assent; ratification; confirmation. Mostly in legal use. ho
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg01477.html (8,771 bytes)

157. Re: Am I crazy? (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:31:24 -0400
Why do you want the car? After 35 years of driving a car to get from here to there, I did not much enjoy driving anymore because I wanted to be here or there but not inbetween. I decided to buy a fun
/html/mgs/1999-04/msg01755.html (10,267 bytes)

158. Woody is calling again (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:56:43 -0500
I am looking to the wisdom of the list. After not starting my year old '76B since November, my blood has begun to boil and it is time. I had the battery recharged, rehooked it to the car, and turned
/html/mgs/1999-03/msg00011.html (7,964 bytes)

159. Re: [Fwd: Fwd: another Clinton] (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:35:42 -0500
Whoa there now. Liberal democrats must have a sense of humor... It is just black humor. After all, the Republican Clinton is the leader of our so-called party. Bill ** Dr. Bill Saidel Assoc. Prof. Vo
/html/mgs/1999-03/msg00510.html (8,476 bytes)

160. temperature sending unit (score: 1)
Author: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:24:56 -0500
Anyone have a good idea how to remove a 23 year old temperature sending unit? A few hard ones and it began to round despite the tight fit of my open end wrench. I wouldn't want to completely round it
/html/mgs/1999-02/msg00009.html (6,811 bytes)


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