- 1. MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Schooler <schooler@erols.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:18:59 -0400
- Would be interested to learn if anyone has experienced a failure of subject part. This oil line is found on all MBG 1800 engines, from 1962 through 1980. It runs from the lower right hand side of the
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00500.html (7,572 bytes)
- 2. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: "David F. Darby" <darby@tri-lakes.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:28:24 -0500
- Hello Bill, I had this part (original) fail once on my MGA. This part gets tired over time. The fittings, at least on the MGA, appear to be Whitworth and, so, my local parts house (US) didn't have th
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00506.html (7,629 bytes)
- 3. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:03:44 -0500
- Hi Bill, When I bought my '69 B in Feb '98 it was leaking from the flex line where it connected to the fitting on the block. Hard to tell until I got all the grime off the engine. The trick seems to
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00516.html (7,480 bytes)
- 4. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:40:37 -0700
- Curious you should mention this. I just replaced mine a few weeks ago. It didn't fail catastrophically, it was just oozing near the end fitting. Bill Schooler had this to say: -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00518.html (8,270 bytes)
- 5. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:00:29 -0700
- Hundreds of originals have failed in the years I've been in this No replacements have failed as yet, and I've used both Moss Motors' and V-B's. Lawrie British Sportscar Center --Original Message-- Fr
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00531.html (8,120 bytes)
- 6. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:12:04 EDT
- I have not had one fail on an MGB, but one failed at about 12 years' age on my TD. Bob On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:18:59 -0400 Bill Schooler <schooler@erols.com> writes: Get the Internet just the way you
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00537.html (8,049 bytes)
- 7. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:16:53 EDT
- << Hundreds of originals have failed in the years I've been in this business................ Guess I "just" gotta add my .02 - This prob'ly adds up to "just" shy of a grand between me, Lawrie & Skip.
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00538.html (7,683 bytes)
- 8. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: dresden@tiac.net
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:22:44 -0400 (EDT)
- In my experience it is a rubber hose, covered with stainless steel Covered with stainless steel braiding?..maybe mine isn't original, 'cause it's just rubber...were they all braided stainless from th
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00540.html (7,285 bytes)
- 9. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: Jethogger@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:31:02 EDT
- Hello Bill. Yes, I have seen many leaking hoses. But what do you expect for a pressure hose 30 to 20 years old. John Rossi
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00550.html (7,171 bytes)
- 10. RE: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 08:20:28 -0700
- after a couple of years on the car. There was no such thing as a good used one. Luckily the lines are one of the repro parts that Moss got right, from the beginning. The teflon lined replacements se
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00556.html (9,042 bytes)
- 11. Re: MGB Oil Flex Line (score: 1)
- Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:39:57 -0400 (EDT)
- I just replaced mine (be careful it cross threads easy) it was leaking at the end that connects to the engine. It may have been original, I'm not sure, it was made of the same type of hose as a brake
- /html/mgs/1999-06/msg00562.html (8,043 bytes)
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