First the clutch;
Robby,
The clutch master cylinder should have either a dimple or a ring just
behind the mounting plate. The parts person will need to know which what
your cylinder has in order to get you the right kit.
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The dimple/ring will be at point A. The ring will goes around the barrel
of the cylinder.
sfisher writes:
>Timothy Lyle Smith complains:
>
>>I figure that since I bought the car it has probably cost
>>about 2 times it's purchase price, in 5 years.
>
>Only twice the purchase price in five years? Either you
>got taken on the purchase price or you've been very lucky
>with your car. :-)
>
>Whenever anyone would ask how much MGs cost, I'd say "Four
>thousand dollars." "Then the one I saw in the Pennysaver
>for $1500 must be a good deal?" they'd ask. "No," I said,
>"it just means that you'll have to spend $2500 to get it
>to work right after you buy it." I think the numbers might
>have gone up over time, but the concept is still right on
>the money.
Perhaps I should have been more clear, and not have skipped a few minor
details. I bought the car in the spring of 1986 for $1500, what a deal :-).
Could have probably gotten the car for $1200 but I was depressed, bad time
to buy things when your depressed. :-|
That summer I put $800 into it trying to fix up the body and stop my 1 qt
per 100 mile leak. Such a silly boy I was. Didn't know sqat about cars
and there I was taking the engine apart and denuding the body. Lucky for
me a local sports car mechanic took pity on me and let me borrow his brain
and the shop manuals. Funny thing about the oil leak, I did a half assed
in the car engine rebuild and the leak ended up being just a bad front seal.
Goes to show you the power of ignorance. :-) Anyways the God of Darkness
missed me somehow and the car ran fine after I was done with it. The paint
even looked ok, just a little orange peel.
Then came winter. I happened to meet a woman who agreed to go out with
me and I took her in the MG of course. I bring her up here because she
is important later on. Just a few days later I was on my way out to my uncles
dairy farm, the place where all the car work is done, and 3 drunks in a
Datsun make a bad left turn and my MG is instantly a foot shorter and has new
curves put into the body where there should be no curves at all. The car sits
at my apartment all winter, the woman dumps me.
Next spring I trailer the car to my uncles farm, in a horse trailer. The car
still ran good enough that after cutting away any protruding bits of metal I
drove it up into the trailer. It then sat on the farm because I didn't have
money to fix it. So I bought a motorcycle and borrowed my uncles car.
Remember the woman from 2 paragraphs ago? Met her 2 years later at the
local roller rink and we tried again. One night in my uncles car she says
she wants to go sking during spring break. The final details work out to
going to Utah but she doesn't have a car and I can't borrow my uncles for the
trip. So what do I start in October? I find the money and rebuild my MG.
This turns out to be a difficult task as the frame is unfix-able. So with a
1971 body from a salvage yard 80 miles away and a 1972 parts car from 20 miles
away I start in. The '71 has been rolled and burned but the body is basically
straight. I ended up buying the entire '72 only because the yard only wanted
$50 dollars more for the car over the cost of the parts I needed. I have
plenty of spare parts! The rebuild cost me $1300.
Last December I fixed the head for no lead, $345. Yesterday I bought parts
for a complete engine rebuild, $309. I have yet to get the block back from
the machine shop but I figure it to be around $100.
The woman? She's mad at me and now lives in Chicago. Too bad women can't
be fixed like MGs. Throw enough blood, sweat, tears, and money at them and
they go again. :-)))))
Tim Smith
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