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Re: TD gearbox tunnel cover

To: Ed & Kris Curtis <curtis@novagate.com>, mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: TD gearbox tunnel cover
From: Steven Tritle <stritle@epix.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 08:50:09 -0500
I put mine on top of the tunnel too. Just trying to find the definiitive answer.

Thanks for all the response.

steve
52 TD

Ed & Kris Curtis wrote:

> Steve:
>
> If you look at page 140 of Horst Schach's "The Complete M.G. TD Restoration
> Manual", you can see that he installed the rubber snug under the
> transmission tunnel.  Based on that reference, I did the same thing when I
> assembled my TF.  It was a real pain to slide the metal tunnel over the
> rubber.  I am not looking forward to removing it at some time in the future.
> That part of my car had been taken apart in 1960, so that, unlike most other
> parts of the car, I could not tell how it had been assembled at the factory.
>
> Several MG restoration experts here in the Grand Rapids, MI, area were
> surprised when they saw what I had done, and said that they always put the
> snug on top of the metal tunnel.
>
> Ed Curtis
> 55 MG TF1500
> curtis@novagate.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Tritle <stritle@epix.net>
> To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 4:58 PM
> Subject: TD gearbox tunnel cover
>
> >Is the rubber snug fitted before (under) or after, (over) the
> >transmission tunnel ?
> >steve
> >52 TD
> >
> >




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