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60 MGA tyre clamp

To: barneymg@ntsource.com
Subject: 60 MGA tyre clamp
From: "Simon Matthews" <simon_atwork@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:37:45 PDT
Barney,

The tyre clamp may reach to 1" past the top of the tream on standard size 
tyres, but who runs those? I run 195's and the clamp just about runs to the 
top of the tread.

Simon

You wrote:

>At 02:17 PM 9/28/99 EDT, P. Haase <PLM97@aol.com> wrote:
?>I'm confused as to which spare tire clamp is correct for a 1960 MGA >>1600
>>roadster.  Is it the shorter or longer clamp? ....

>To the best of my knowledge, there was only one type of spare tyre >clamp
>used throughout the production of the MGA.  It reaches from the floor >of
>the boot to about one inch past the top of the tire tread, and was 
> >fastened
>with a big wing nut and an eye bolt which was pinned to a shallow >steel
>loop plate welded to the boot floor.
>
>Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude


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