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Re: tire size - 155 or 165 for MGB?

To: mgs@autox.team.net, british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: tire size - 155 or 165 for MGB?
From: DANIELS@LMSBV3.TAMU.EDU (Lee Daniels, daniels@tamu.edu)
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 9:20:26 -0500 (CDT)
With his usual assumed smileys, W. Ray Gibbons wrote:

>>The company engineers solved this by installing 165x14 tires on the
>> driver's side, and 155x14 tires on the passenger side.  Apparently,
>> someone cris-crossed yours.  [...]

To which someone innocently responded:

>        I don't think that the spider gears in the differential will last 
>very long if you mix up the tire size on the rear end. Also I think that it
>would be very difficult to align the front end with different size tires up
>front. 
>       Mixing tire sizes on the same axle (front or rear) is never a 
>good idea, and should only be done if you have no other choice, and then 
>only for as short a time as possable.

HELLO ??  IS ANYBODY HOME ???  HEY, GUYS AND GIRLS, WHEN YOU SEE A POST 
SIGNED BY "W. Ray Gibbons", YOU MAY SAFELY ASSUME THAT HE IS TALKING OUT OF 
HIS, ... WELL, LET'S JUST SAY THAT HE'S NOT PRONE TO USE THE "SMILEY" 
CHARACTER.

Yeah, yeah, I know we had all the banter about whether we should be serious 
in our discussions here, but REALLY!  You may need to carefully consider 
the "tone" of a discussion before jumping right in.  Heh, *especially* if 
the discussion includes Ray G., or Christopher Ball, or any of many other 
twisted minds who have infiltrated our sacred ranks.

-Lee "OK, now I'll go back to my sullen disposition" Daniels

Lee M. Daniels   Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding   Texas A&M 
 daniels@tamu.edu            (409) 845-3726          Fax (409) 845-9351
 '74 TR6  '77 MGB

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