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1. Re: Stainless braided brake lines--OK for street? (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:17:20 +1000
Well, over here at least they're not street legal for the simple fact that you can't tell if they're leaking - and part of the annual rego check is a visual check of the brake lines. Tim Pearson Sydn
/html/mgs/2001-06/msg00384.html (7,123 bytes)

2. RE: MGB fastback (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:21:55 +1000
hmmmm... bit behind on this one, but it reminds me of a custom fastback done by an australian dealer in the late 60's - they did a new b with the fastback, bootlid removed, the boot area carpeted, fe
/html/mgs/2001-06/msg00385.html (7,535 bytes)

3. Re: Smoke and Oil (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:08:06 +1000
probably due to excess crankcase pressure from the blocked PCV. Also, exhaust smoke is not necessarily oil - what colour? It's fairly easy to set up SU's so badly that you get horrendous amount of d
/html/mgs/2000-07/msg01022.html (7,299 bytes)

4. Great LBC spotting weekend... (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:08:59 +1000
Just a brief rave.....lovely weekend, took the B up to the Mountains via Bell's Line (lovely twisting bits....) and stayed with some friends. Beautiful weather, great roads, car running magnificently
/html/mgs/2000-07/msg01025.html (7,446 bytes)

5. Re: What did Abingdon do during the War? (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:26:41 +1000
There's a chapter in MG by McComb that talks about the war work. It included the cockpits for the albermale bombers, power eggs (engine and mounts) for Merlin aero engines, tempest fighter components
/html/mgs/2000-05/msg00421.html (7,229 bytes)

6. early B's and air vents in the dash? (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:14:05 +1100
Before I start, I'm talking UK/Europe/Aus spec here.... B's up to 71 had the radio panel in the middle of the dash. On 72-76 cars, this had migrated down to the centre console, and the rectangular ho
/html/mgs/2000-02/msg00245.html (8,325 bytes)

7. Sydney get together..! (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:57:18 +1100
OK Neil, count me in. Think your A will actually run for a couple of hundred miles without breaking something??? <VBG!> On a related note - went up to Lithgow on Sunday - 100 miles up into the Blue M
/html/mgs/2000-01/msg00785.html (7,507 bytes)

8. RE: Aus built MG's (was Distributor advance curves) (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:16:33 +1000
Ah yes,well, mine is an Australian built one. MGB roadsters were built from CKD kits in Aus from ?1963-1972. (have to check - figures at home). GT's were imported. Aus built cars were prefixed with a
/html/mgs/1999-10/msg00001.html (8,283 bytes)

9. MG Garage & MG Cafe..... (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:06:05 +1000
Further to Neil's comments.... MGF's in Aus are sold through a chain of dealers called MG Garages - which as someone pointed out, just shows Rover Australia's lack of knowledge of MG history. The Syd
/html/mgs/1999-10/msg00362.html (7,202 bytes)

10. mga exhaust manifold on mgb??? (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:56:40 +1000
Was looking in Burgess (How to power tune your mgb engine) on the weekend - in the exhaust section he mentions that the MGA "style" exhaust manifold is good for 3-5hp in the midrange. Now this prompt
/html/mgs/1999-10/msg00719.html (6,850 bytes)

11. Distributor advance curves (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:53:39 +1000
Does anyone, by chance, have the advance curve for a Lucas 25D4-40943A This dizzy was the factory special tuning part, listed in 1965-66, and supposedly it has a markedly different advance curve to t
/html/mgs/1999-09/msg01542.html (7,183 bytes)

12. Pinging, compression ratio, and advance.... (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:07:10 +1000
OK then gents (& ladies): There is always a certain amount of debate over what is the correct timing to use to prevent pinging and get best performance. Everyone seems to have their own ideas, which
/html/mgs/1999-06/msg00766.html (8,694 bytes)

13. RE: Pinging, compression ratio, and advance.... (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:16:08 +1000
<snip> 97? 97???? NINETY SEVEN?????????? Jeez mate, we haven't had 97 in this country for about 15 years!!!!! For a while I was getting away with driving onto the airfield and putting 20 litres of 1
/html/mgs/1999-06/msg00773.html (7,933 bytes)

14. Re: BRAVO! Moss Motors (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 12:58:06 +1000
Yeh Eric, know how you feel. I've had (repeated) trouble with one supposed MG specialist here in Sydney - problem is, the troubles they've given me have been things like duff re-co'd parts - which yo
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00254.html (7,706 bytes)

15. re:high idle and plugs (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 13:05:42 +1000
Just a thought - I had almost exactly this problem - turned out that the carb throttle bodies had been rebushed, but they had been drilled all the way through, with the bushes only pressed half way t
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00255.html (7,233 bytes)

16. Re: Help, My Seat's too High! (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 13:10:38 +1000
Similar problem. I could never understand why original road tests of the B always commented on thighs hitting the steering wheel - until I replaced cushions and diaphragms and gained the height that
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00256.html (7,506 bytes)

17. tyres (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:47:47 +1000
Heya Neil, Just got new tyres on my B last Tuesday. Got Michelin MX 165/14. Couldn't get anything else in that size, but the B had those on before, and I was pretty happy with them. Maybe they don't
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00437.html (7,002 bytes)

18. Tuning Book (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:24:17 +1000
Excellent as a historical document, not a patch on the Burgess "how to power tune the MGB engine" as a practical guide. It's very interesting, but Burgess gives more and better info. Tim 66B rdstr YG
/html/mgs/1999-05/msg00445.html (6,616 bytes)

19. SU Needles (score: 1)
Author: "Pearson, Tim" <tpearson@westpac.com.au>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:19:06 +1100
I don't know about the situation in the UK, but here in Aus there is a company called Midel who stock the whole range. I just went round with a list of needles I wanted, and the bloke just went mutt
/html/mgs/1999-03/msg00918.html (7,008 bytes)

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