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261. Re: My Carbs (again <G>) (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:20:05 -0500; Probably as you guessed, leaking needle valves. The overflow is coming out of the float vents and into the canister. If you get the soft click but without the overflowing, it can be a fuel pump probl; /html/mgs/1998-11/msg01589.html (8,739 bytes)
262. Re: Killing the fuel-pump woodpecker (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 03:18:26 -0500; I have a delco pump in my Midget, and I can only hear it at idle with the top up. I don't mind it actually, gives me a nice soft tick... tick... to enjoy when staring at a red light, like a clock. An; /html/mgs/1998-11/msg01598.html (7,865 bytes)
263. Re: MGB engine on the rise (was Re: MGB dead engine report.) (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:23:52 -0400; Yes, you can. You just have to open the two front engine mounts, and jack the engine up a few inches. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboic; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00020.html (8,531 bytes)
264. Re: MGB engine on the rise (was Re: MGB dead engine report.) (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:23:07 -0400; I was able to find the "Lisle" one for about $50CDN, so I purchased that. So the ridges shall be reamed. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tb; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00023.html (8,647 bytes)
265. Re: Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 03:38:26 -0400; Don't. Use acrylic enamel. Looks better, lasts longer, and if you don't use hardener, it isn't any more toxic than Alkyd. I sprayed my B with Dupont Centari, and it came out great. The paint was $47C; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00076.html (7,933 bytes)
266. MG engine has risen! (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 03:43:17 -0400; Well, the MGB rolls again. Purrs like a kitten. New rings, (in that nice reamed bore!), new bearings, and one new valve, and she's a beaut again. Doesn't have the really sexy lumpy idle anymore thoug; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00077.html (6,685 bytes)
267. Re: Paint Question (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 20:44:39 -0400; Well, I confess that I don't have EXTENSIVE background in alkyd, but I have a lot of spec sheets. Most companies list all their paint flavours with features. One feature sheet I have at hand compares; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00101.html (9,940 bytes)
268. Re: MGB engine on the rise (was Re: MGB dead engine report.) (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:09:41 -0400; Renting a hoist has one major flaw, and that is that you have to work to it's schedule. Around here, they rent them by the day for about $40. Doing the whole job in a day would be a lot of work, and; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00172.html (9,189 bytes)
269. Re: reliability (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 01:01:17 -0400; MGs are more realiable on two conditions: 1. You do all the scheduled maintenance religously. 2. You deceive yourself by forgetting the repairs you do and anything you fix, and also hit yourself on t; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00319.html (9,198 bytes)
270. Re: reliability (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:39:04 -0400; It certainly is fair, on many levels. It's not fair to say "Japanese engineers are better than British engineers because this 1993 car is more reliable than this 1969 car". That would be unfair. Howe; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00398.html (8,670 bytes)
271. Re: reliability (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:40:30 -0400; Hehehe... A fish bonker is like a little baseball bat. They sell them at fishing stores, you carry one so that when you land a big fish you whack it so it won't hop around in the boat until it suffoc; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00399.html (7,980 bytes)
272. Re: PM (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:45:45 -0400; The sump is held on by about 20 bolts. 15 of them will come out easily, the front 5 will make you swear in languages you don't even know how to speak. In a nutshell, you have to open the front two en; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00400.html (8,503 bytes)
273. Re: Low Compression, 77 Midget 1500 cc (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 01:59:13 -0400; These are almost exactly the figures my MGB gave about a week ago. (you might remember the series of posts) For purposes of childish competition, I recovered ONE of the eight compression rings, and a; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00402.html (8,622 bytes)
274. Re: schematic questions (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 02:07:30 -0400; Same diagrams, haynes have them all. Mostly accurate in either case, but you sometimes have to interpolate. The haynes shows "1970" and "1970/71" and my 1970 MGB is somewhere in between the two. BTW; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00536.html (8,213 bytes)
275. Re: Leak down test questions (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 01:16:02 -0400; Well, that's not really the only way. Personally, I would pull the head and inspect everything. That will tell you all you need to know. The leak down test is great to locate problems that might not; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00612.html (9,310 bytes)
276. Re: Fwd: schematic questions (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 01:20:06 -0400; Weird, there must be different editions of the haynes manuals out there. Mine has like 20 pages of schematics for all the years. I'd love to get a hardcover haynes manual for my MGB, I have one for; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00613.html (7,477 bytes)
277. ZA windscreen fits ZB? (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:49:47 -0400; Are ZA and ZB magnette front windscreens -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00625.html (6,344 bytes)
278. Re: differential problem (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:40:08 -0400; Not only did I suggest it, I scored a $35 Moss gift certificate for suggesting it in Moss Motoring! ;> That method works really well. You can get the adaptor for like $1, it only takes a second to gr; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00719.html (8,338 bytes)
279. Re: differential problem (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 02:00:46 -0400; It doesn't work on my Midget 1500. I remember trying it. It wouldn't work on the fill plug. It looked like it MIGHT have worked on the drain plug, but getting the drain plug out and not the fill plug; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00747.html (8,321 bytes)
280. Re: (no subject) (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 03:53:35 -0400; Interesting comment, considering you are handling solid lead, and sanding it into airborne particles of lead, and just basically otherwise crawling with lead. ;> -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Can; /html/mgs/1998-10/msg00786.html (6,599 bytes)

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