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Re: Getting an MGA started

To: gaughan@highway1.com
Subject: Re: Getting an MGA started
From: dmeadow@juno.com
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:47:44 EST
Can't help with the starting procedure, but the seat belt drill is as
follows:

Contact Clarke Spares and Restorations.  They sell a complete kit for
installing seat belts.  WARNING!  If you want to install 3 point belts in
a pre Mk II (1962) MGA, you may have some body work to do.  Since mine is
a Mk II with the factory supplied anchor points, I don't have the
experience of the earlier models and can't give you specifics.  Todd
Clarke certainly can.

David Littlefield
Houston, TX 

P.S. E-mail me if you need Clarke's particulars.

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:40:05 -0500 gaughan@highway1.com (Bob Gaughan)
writes:
>I'm kicking myself.  Wasn't there a great thread a couple of weeks ago
>about getting an engine started?  It went thru step-by-step what to 
>do.
>I'm in the situation where I just bought a '61 MGA that was running a
>couple of weeks ago and it was then shipped to me.  I turn on the
>ignition, I hear the fuel pump, I pull out the choke, I pull the
>starter, the engine turns over repeatedly, I smell gas, but no start,
>not even a sputter.  My son used a test light to determine that there 
>is
>current to the coil, but later when a I held the spark plug cover a
>couple inches away from the plug-- no spark. 
>
>What should I do now?  How do I verify that there is juice coming from
>the coil to the distributor, etc.?
>
>Can anyone point me to that thread I referred to?
>
>Seperate question-  I need to install seat belts-what's the drill?
>
>Thanks, Bob Gaughan
>

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