Weather’s great in NC and my newly restored TD is beginning to spend more
time out of the garage getting all the “kinks” out. My new speedo (Classic
MG) and rebuilt voltage regulator (Shadetree) are working just fine. Earlier
reported transmission shifting problems seem to have been caused by too much
play in the clutch linkage. A new clutch link from Moss made a big
improvement. With only a few miles on my engine rebuild, I have been trying
to take it easy. Nevertheless I have gotten the car up to 50. While it true
that this TD is my first LBC experience and I can only compare to modern
cars, but going 50 in a TD (sans top) is a pretty “exhilarating” experience.
I can’t imagine going 65 with 4.3 gears.
But I do have a question. Never having owned a car with solid lifters,
how do you know if the tappets are making too much noise and need to be
adjusted (car seems to run fine). Also, I was under the impression that you
could adjust tappets when the car is idling, but my MG workshop manual seems
to imply to adjust them with the engine off. Should you adjust the XPAG
tappets with the engine running or not? Joe Holtslag
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