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manufacturing error (was MGB temperature)

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Subject: manufacturing error (was MGB temperature)
From: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 17:29:07 PST
Ulix told a story:

> I once read a story of a guy who replaced everything under his hood to 
> keep his car from overheating, and got so frustrated that he eventually 
> pulled the engine apart, only to find a rag in a water passage that had 
> been forgotten in there in the factory...

A friend had an MGC that ran just fine.  One day, he removed the intake 
manifold and discovered that it had been cast with a thin sheet of metal 
completely closing off the intake to one cylinder.  It was at least ten, 
maybe fifteen, years old at this point.

Denise Thorpe
thorpe@kegs.saic.com

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