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Re: Engine replacement options (non-MG)?

To: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject: Re: Engine replacement options (non-MG)?
From: Der schwarze Buccaneer <js-allen@students.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:40:55 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Art Pfenninger wrote:

>       I'm not a betting man but... If you  attempt an engine swap I'll
> bet you never see the road again in your MG. This is the type of thing you
>  should consider "for fun" while your other MG is on the road. 
                                        ^^^^^

        Don't I wish!


> When I was
> in high school I thought it would be easy to swap the steering on a TR3 to
> make it a right hand driver. The last I heard of the car my mother had it
> towed to the junk yard in my senior year of college. The advice that you
> have gotten from the list may have been free but it's worth a million.

        To be honest, mine was sitting in the garage the last six 
years (since just slightly after I finished high school).  It had been 
sitting due to a fuel system fault that I finally decided to get around to 
fixing.  I just dusted it off earlier this fall.  It was buring oil even 
when I parked it those years ago, but not so badly as now.  I think it 
would have been sold from under my nose if someone had been willing to 
pay what the parental unit was trying to sell it for.  My mum appreciates 
the value of it more than its scrap value, thank goodness, so I was never 
worried about it getting towed to the junk heap.


                                                -Scott Allen
                                                js-allen@students.uiuc.edu
                                        
        "At dawn we will face the greatest test of our resolve.  But I 
say this: though starving, hunger will not weaken us; though diseased, 
illness will not cripple us, and though weary, exhaustion will not claim 
us.  We can fight knowing that all true Reiklanders will forevermore 
honour our valiant gesture of defiance, even though our bodies be left to 
feed the beasts of carrion.

        Mind you...we could always surrender."  -Rick Priestly's Siege  


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