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61. MGA/ZB Magnette master cylinder doesn't hold a rebuild (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 22:22:14 -0500; When I first put my ZB Magnette on the road, I had to rebuild the combined master brake/clutch cylinder because the clutch was leaking internally. (car would start to creep if you held the clutch dow; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00328.html (8,927 bytes)
62. Re: Leather bearings, wooden pistons..... (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:30:40 -0500; There is some truth in this, any double connector wire will have capacitance, the question is, is it enough to be meaningful here? Often wire is rated this in in picofarads per foot. For very small c; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00378.html (9,520 bytes)
63. Re: MGA/ZB Magnette master cylinder doesn't hold a rebuild (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:08:00 -0500; Well, I think I solved the problem. I took it apart and cleaned it really well and spent a good 10 minutes with my finger down the bore. (make your own joke here) After swearing for the entire time i; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00379.html (9,359 bytes)
64. Re: Early overdrive questions (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:36:33 -0500; The later cars use smaller solenoids that don't need relays. The thought was though that the older style solenoids pulled too much current to run without a relay. It's not a safety issue though, so i; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00380.html (9,152 bytes)
65. Re: MGA/ZB Magnette master cylinder doesn't hold a rebuild (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:03:45 -0500; Actually I do, it is a Lisle brake cylinder hone, it's actually very tiny. It looks a lot like the big hones for engines and works the same way, but it is just much smaller. I got it a while ago at t; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00414.html (8,578 bytes)
66. Re: Lead Substitute (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:19:14 -0500; Phosphorus is a popular additive. I wouldn't expect to smell the actual active ingredient, it would be very very dilute compared to the carrier. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00843.html (6,929 bytes)
67. Re: UK Number plates (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 12:55:41 -0500; IMHO, this whole number plate thing is a rare bit of insanity in a normally pretty sensible British psyche. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/; /html/mgs/2000-11/msg00970.html (6,958 bytes)
68. Re: Laquer paint/2 cents (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:21:42 -0400; the hardener. urethanes on imperfect cars. The modern paints are sometimes more likely to let paint edges and other minor faults show through after the paint cures. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa,; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00308.html (6,979 bytes)
69. Re: Laquer paint/2 cents (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:47:06 -0400; It depends what you call a "proper mask". With an air fed mask you can paint anything. There are filter-masks that SOME people use to paint hardened paints, and that are actually spec'ed as such. How; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00313.html (7,113 bytes)
70. Re: midget 79 (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 13:26:16 -0400; It sounds like it's running lean, but I think you need to start at the beginning and check and set every aspect of the tuning. (valves, ignition, fuel level, mixture)... What scares me about the abov; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00460.html (8,114 bytes)
71. Re: midget 79 (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 13:40:27 -0400; Incidently, points are easily available for any postwar LUCAS points distributor, but the original distributor in your 79 would not have had points, it would have had LUCAS electronic ignition. So li; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00461.html (7,971 bytes)
72. Re: Power Curve of B-Series Engine (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:48:39 -0400; I don't have the details as you do, but this phenomena is very true. When the throttle butterfly is closed, every time the pistons do an intake stroke they experience quite a lot of drag trying to fi; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00518.html (9,766 bytes)
73. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:51:16 -0400; I would think a pretty small percentage of the cars out there nowadays don't have fuel filters. It's pretty much mandatory with fuel injection, and fuel injection is pretty much universal. I realize; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00629.html (8,200 bytes)
74. Re: Castrol R (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:49:51 -0400; Moss sells it. $12.85 per liter, $49.95 for 5L. Price as of the last printed catalog I have, sometime last year. Diaper not included. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00630.html (7,306 bytes)
75. Re: Adding over drive (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:45:04 -0400; It's theoretically possible to add overdrive to a standard 4 speed, but you have to change some internal parts in the tranny. (the mainshaft being the main one, it has to be a few inches longer) The; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00656.html (8,130 bytes)
76. Re: Castrol R (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:24:05 -0400; Indeed. It should be noted that the two oils cannot be mixed, and R should only be used after a rebuild. Not that I beleive R should ever be used, unless you want to just burn a little in the paddock; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00660.html (7,470 bytes)
77. MGB tonneau on ebay (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 22:23:22 -0400; I put a tonneau on ebay that I don't have any use for. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=475737237 -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933 http://; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01071.html (6,616 bytes)
78. Re: Maggot Trans Case (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:01:34 -0400; My magnette was a manumatic and has the original transmission with the bizarre clutch slave, but was factory converted to a manual. The throttle linkage is also bizarre. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ott; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01122.html (7,165 bytes)
79. Re: UK Imported part / buyer B-ware (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:29:55 -0400; That really wouldn't be fair to the seller. Import fees are a bit of a crapshoot, and depend HEAVILY on who you use to import the goods, which is often decided by the buyer. The seller in the UK isn'; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01297.html (8,251 bytes)
80. Re: (no subject) (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:00:48 -0400; The horsepower rating is related to how much the motor can generate at it's maximum torque. An electric motors maximum torque is at 0 rpm, which isn't a speed it runs at for very long, so the circuit; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg01315.html (8,500 bytes)

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