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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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