Scott Gardner wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:32:53 -0700
> > From: Kelvin Dodd <kdodd@West.net>
> > Subject: Re: Chrome dress-up goodies
> >
> > Scott:
> > The elbow you are seeing is the standard early MGB spout which
> > is made out of aluminum. The unit on the Moss motor is one of their
> > repro's which has been ground and polished to within an inch of it's
> > life. The regular production units are as cast. It's amazing what you
> > can do when you arn't driving your LBC
> >
> > Kelvin.
> >
> Kelvin,
> How early is "early"? I have a '72 'B', but the water neck is
> from an earlier car, or so I would suppose, since it doesn't have the
> bracket to mount the air pump. Mine's painted black, but from the
> light surface rust where the paint has flaked off, I'm pretty sure
> it's not aluminum. It will probably be cheaper to just clean mine up
> and re-paint it or have it chromed.
> Also, what year MGB used a six-or-seven-bladed, metal fan blade that
> was painted yellow? In the catalogues, all I find are black
> three-bladed fans and yellow plastic ones. I keep finding parts on
> this car that have obviously been salvaged from older cars, so it's
> kind of a curiousity for me now to find out when they came from.
>
> Scott Gardner
> gardner@lwcomm.com
> www.lwcomm.com/~gardner
Scott,
My '69 B came with the 6-bladed yellow painted fan. The Moss catalog
shows this fan with application from 1968 through sometime in 1973.
Bill
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