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Re: A few more days in the life -Reply

To: Matt Kulka <Matt.Kulka@hboc.com>
Subject: Re: A few more days in the life -Reply
From: Arthur Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:26:41 -0400 (EDT)
        The knocking from the oil pan sounds like main or big end
bearings.The water sounds like a cracked head or a bad head gasket.
...Art


On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Matt Kulka wrote:

> 
> 
> >>> Todd Mullins <todd@nutria.nrlssc.navy.mil> 08/15/97 12:57pm >>>
> ...with the spare 18V
> slated for a rebuild Real Soon Now (balancing, porting, 9.0:1 pistons
> and a Piper 270 cam, since you asked)...
> 
> 
> '74 MGB Tourer that needs bodywork, too
> >>>>>>
> Heya Todd (or anyone else who cares to answer),
> 
>   My '74 looks like it's about to get the once over too - what with the
> water leaking out the head seam and that rapping noise coming from the
> oil pan.  I've heard a few good things about that Piper 270 cam, and was
> considering throwing one in.  I don't intend to change the pistons like
> you, but would the carb jets have to be changed to accomodate the cam? 
> If so, is this an easy "you need needle X and jet Y" or is it a
> touchy-feely all-cars-react-a-little-differently sort of situation?
> 
>   (And for those who noticed, yes we did do the Charlotte/Chicago trip
> last weekend - knocking oil pan and all.  Tennessee was pretty long,
> having to go around the landslide on I-40 and the constuction on I-81,
> but we had a great time.  The North Carolina mountains and the Kentucky
> landscape are beautiful.  The exhaust pipe continued to pull loose of
> the manifold, but it wasn't so bad that the floors heated up.  Next time
> we'll allow more time and do it over a few days.  Either that or rebuild
> the seats first.)
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Matt Kulka
> '74 B - Not really a road warrior, more like a road delinquent.
> 
> 


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