- 1. HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 22:28:37 -0500
- Okay, call me a fool...I recently purchased a lovely 1975 MG Midget. So, that's not the bad part...I bought it really cheap and it has some problems. Hee hee...don't we all! It's headed to the shop o
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00053.html (8,543 bytes)
- 2. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 22:40:36 -0700
- General opinion of most is to stay away from the additional cost and trouble of converting. If your shocks leak, don't buy new ones, get rebuilt ones from Peter C. - World Wide Auto Parts. less expe
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00054.html (9,889 bytes)
- 3. RE: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:38:42 -0400
- 1. Shocks - Get them at World Wide Auto Parts. Email Peter C on the list. Do not pass go, do not collect anything from any other company. Just get them from Peter. He has the best rebuilt lever shock
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00060.html (8,047 bytes)
- 4. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:50:56 +1000
- For a road car, your mechanic's advice is almost spot on. The only time I have found tele conversions worthwhile is for competition rally cars, and only then on the front. The reason being that the
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00070.html (12,469 bytes)
- 5. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:48:34 EDT
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You will find that the Haynes diagrams are more like a schematic than a wiring diagram. They do not place the devices in proper position as they are found in the car. Al
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00075.html (8,544 bytes)
- 6. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:48:36 EDT
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I was going to chime in and recommend Peter C. for rebuilt shox, but I see I am too late. EVERYBODY beat me to it!!! See what being an honest business man with a good pr
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00076.html (8,385 bytes)
- 7. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:27:52 -0400
- I know I'm echoing what others have said here, but Haynes and Bentley are the probably the most common sources for this info. But watch out for the Haynes diagrams - they are rather inconsistent. So
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00078.html (9,688 bytes)
- 8. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 12:32:44 -0400
- 1) Well in my opinion, get the lever shocks from Peter C. Do Not convert to a tube shock. It screws up the geometry of the suspension. Esp up front. 2) Use a Pillow? 3) Make it yourself? 4) There ar
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00079.html (10,487 bytes)
- 9. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 12:39:39 -0400
- I gotta tell ya. I think Allen owns stock in the Hi-Liter company, he repeats this often. Must explain why he always has time to dig out those odd web sites. Larry (who did not see 1/4 inch of wiring
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00080.html (8,738 bytes)
- 10. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:47:58 -0700
- Bentley Publishing still lists : The MG Midget 1500 Driver's Handbook (1979) The MG Midget Mk 2 and Mk 3 Parts Catalogue: 1962-1974 The MG Midget MK 3 Driver's Handbook (1974) But I don't see the Mi
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00081.html (8,894 bytes)
- 11. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:57:01 EDT
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I only repeat it because it works, and people don't remember anything they read until it applies to them. Maybe I could sell enlarged copies of the wiring diagrams. I ju
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00082.html (8,090 bytes)
- 12. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:59:28 -0500
- <<(who did not see 1/4 inch of wiring hilited on the wiring diagrams in What kind of "wiriing diagrams..." are in a Brewery??? Enquiring................ Anon
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00083.html (7,989 bytes)
- 13. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:13:17 -0400
- must I should have commented on this in my previous message. This sounds *exactly* like my car. I have a 1275, so trans, etc. are different from yours. My problem is (I think) excessive play in the
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00085.html (10,619 bytes)
- 14. Re: HELP...need advice! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:13:26 EDT
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OK. I brought the enlarged wiring diagrams. I also brought my bag of pens with the hiliters in it, just in case. I worked on the brakes and the radiator. (This particula
- /html/spridgets/2001-06/msg00086.html (7,900 bytes)
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