Good Morning Allen,
Thank you, Sir, for the fine advice.
Ed, my apologies for misunderstanding your letter.
I am taking the liberty to open my letter to the list because of the technical
tips it may contain. I hope neither of you will object.
If I feel like this about MG, I can hardly appreciate how terrible the workers
and
British enthusiasts felt seeing the fruits of their labor and the greatness of
their whole innovative industry macerated and expectorated by a self indulgent
government, an incompetent management team imported from a scrap yard, and the
slovenly attitudes of the aforementioned dealers.
Many of the things, on many of my many of my MGs that I had to "fix" upon my
acquisition, were dealer bungles:
e.g.: I have receipts from the original and previous owner of my '74 MGB-GT to
show the fuel tank being replaced 6 times over a 3 year period because of
complaints of fuel fumes in the passenger compartment. After that he just lived
with it. (A remarkable achievement because of how much he smoked in that car!)
The
cause: the "T" fitting on the vent tube was plugged with undercoating (dealer
applied)!!! If I were him, I would certainly conclude the car was a piece of
junk.
BTW, he was charged parts and labor each time a tank was changed!
eg: I'll bet that there are substantial numbers of us who have collectively
removed miles of excess wire from the engine compartments of our cars. The
cause:
oxidation in the bullet connectors. Dealer fix: any time an electrical device
stopped working, some dealer employed grease monkey (sorry monkeys) would (a)
malign MG, (b) malign Lucas, (c) install a bypass or shunt in parallel. Color
coding? Who cares; doesn't matter! Wire ties? Wazzat? When the bonnet was opened
it looked like the work of a Technicolor cob web weaver. My solution? apply a
bit
of liquid chrome cleaner into each half of the connector. wash it out with
water;
blow dry, apply some white lithium grease to either half and reassemble. Voila!
Problem solved.
I can go on, but won't.
Jim
Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/2/99 1:33:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, microdoc@apk.net
> writes:
>
> << Frankly Ed, I can't figure out if you hate MG's or like them. I like them,
> and
> come pretty close to hating everyone who had something to do with causing
> their
> premature death. Dimwits come in all shapes and sizes. Please make some sense
> when you write next time. >>
>
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>
> Jeez, here we have two guys in total agreement, and arguing about it! You
> both like LBCs.
>
> Jim, don't take Ed seriously. Nobody else does! But Ed tends to come thru
> when you need something. Tact is certainly not his middle name, but after a
> sorta rocky start, we get along fine. He even sent me a pen and note pad.
>
> Ed, leave Jim alone! He obviously doesn't understand your humour, as you
> have demonstrated so many times before.
>
> No apologize...and come out as friends! Our LBCs need us all.
>
> Allen Hefner
> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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