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RE: Bumper removal - MGA 1600 Roadster

To: bk996@freenet.carleton.ca
Subject: RE: Bumper removal - MGA 1600 Roadster
From: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:01:42 -0800
Aww Shucks Eric:

        I feel suitably chastened.  I guess I got overly excited from
finally working on a car after the relatives finally went home.  Try
Locktite on the peeling chrome.

Kelvin.

        Kids, don't do this at home.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Stephen [mailto:bk996@freenet.carleton.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 10:36 AM
> To: Dodd, Kelvin; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Bumper removal - MGA 1600 Roadster
> 
> 
> Kevin:
> 
> I know I can always depend on this list and its members for 
> great advice.  I
> followed through as you directed.  With the heat applied, the 
> nuts came off very
> easily, however, the only trouble I ran into was the 
> mis-coloured and peeling
> chrome!  Unfortunately I deleted your reply.  Did  I perhaps 
> miss some important
> little tidbit towards the end of your message?  How did you 
> manage to polish out
> the discoloration and re-attach the peeled chrome?  The 
> valance was quite a
> different matter.  I had alot of trouble breaking it free. 
> Why did that have to
> come off in the first place?  Perhaps a question I should 
> have asked before I
> demolished the rear end!   Appreciate a reply ASAP, as my SO 
> Theresa, is really
> PO'ed thinking of course, that I have done something terribly 
> wrong (go figure).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Just kidding!  Was that cod tongue and cheeks?  Applied a 
> little "Break Away"
> the night before and all went smoothly the next day.  One 
> side had an additional
> rubber washer that wasn't apparent in the catalogs.  I called 
> Moss "tech" and
> was assured that it was likely a DPO addition.  Thanks to all 
> for their advice
> on this.
> 
> "Dodd, Kelvin" wrote:
> 

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