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Re: Laugh, will you!

To: IfixMGs@aol.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Laugh, will you!
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:33:52 -0400
References: <6e.105c0c37.28ddc591@aol.com>
On Saturday 22 September 2001 06:44 am, IfixMGs@aol.com wrote:
> and fired up, put it into  reverse where it moved forward. Tried first thru
> fourth, and  it moved  backwards... whoa...... Previous owner didn;t have a
> rearend for an MGB handy - he simply bolted in whatever he found at the
> junkyard that fit between the springs and welded the rear ujoint plate
> directly to the diff yoke and welded the shock links straight to the diff
> tubes. A pair of tubing couplers adapted the brake lines, and the e-brake
> ends were welded to the levers.  Shame, too, because it was a really quiet
> 3:55 gear....

 Reminds me a Junkyard Wars episode where they were building dragsters. One 
team lost their forward gears on the first run, so they flipped the diff 
upside down and ran the rest of the time in reverse! Didn't do too well, 
though. ;-)

Eddie
1971 Midget



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