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Re: Do MGB's have starter drive covers?

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Subject: Re: Do MGB's have starter drive covers?
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:05:50 -0700
No, it just hangs out there and catches rocks...

on 8/21/02 9:04 PM, F. J. MacFarlane at n5bgy@flash.net wrote:

> On the early MGB's with the inertia-engaged (sometimes called
> "Bendix-drive") Lucas M418 starter, is there a cover for the starter drive
> assembly that sticks out of the rear of the bellhousing?  My 1967 Anglia
> 123E had a drawn sheet metal can that fit into the (cast iron!) bellhousing,
> as an example, but the 1967 MGB I now own has none.  The drive is exposed
> under the trans tunnel to road dirt, etc., so I figure BMC must have fit a
> cover of some sort, and it's just missing from my B.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> F. J. (Lane) MacFarlane
> Houston, TX
> 
> 1967 MGB, mileage unknown
> 1982 Plymouth Turismo 2.2 L 99 kmi (driven by a teenager now, heaven help
> the clutch!)
> 1985 Plymouth Voyager 2.6 L 145 kmi (the rust-coloured Energizer bunny van,
> it just keeps going...)
> 1994 Plymouth Voyager 3.3 L 125 kmi
> unapologetic PO 1967 English Ford Anglia 123E (RIP)
> 


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

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