In my case, the sound lasted long enough for me to raise the hood and try
to find it only once. It sounded as if it were coming from the back of the
engine, or front of the gearbox, and was just like the original post
described it: like a coat hanger caught in the fan. It's the main reason
I have driven the car only a thousand miles since last year, and most of
that was on one 750 mile round trip. It happened on that trip about 3:30
a.m. 50 miles from home on the way out. Luckily, it lasted only a few
seconds, and never returned. The other times it happened, from in the
cockpit it sounded and felt like the gearbox. Didn't matter whether it was
in gear or not, though.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
'66 BJ8 HBJ8L/36666 "TARHEELY"
'63 BJ7 HBJ7L/20111 ("Resting" the last 10 years)
Why can't they put manholes in the MIDDLE of the lane?
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> From: Tomdamit@aol.com
> To: byers@cconnect.net; healeys@autox.team.net; ingan@globalnet.co.uk;
mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: MG Midget-Weird noises/accelleration-Q from a novice
> Date: Sunday, July 13, 1997 6:34 PM
>
> Hard to say just what it might be with out actually hearing it but I have
> experienced similar sounds twice. Both times, it sounded like it was
coming
> from the engine and I was able to confirm this as I pulled off the road
and
> raised the bonnet before it quit. Sounded like someone inside the engine
> with a hammer! I thought I had a broken ring or valve or disintegrating
> piston- it was that bad!
> The first time, I had the car towed home from the side of the road. It
sat
> in the garage for a week while I cried about finances and why was I named
> Ware instead of Rockefeller or Gates or something! Anyway, I decided
> starting it up again couldn't hurt it anymore than it already was. The
> hammer was still there but I remembered back to my GM car days and
thought
> ,"It could be a loose piece of carbon". I drove the car up the hill by
my
> house and came down in low gear. The vacuum and speed broke up the
carbon
> and it left as quickly as it came.
> Second time was very similar but I decided to keep on going and it
eventually
> went out. Hasn't happened since.
> This may or may not be your circumstance but it's my $.02 worth. Hope it
> helps.
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