Just what I needed! I have taken this week off to give my MGB a good bit
work to keep it smart and get out on the roads as soon as the salt has gone.
right off the garage now!
Derek
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
To: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>; MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: MGA - Just happy (couldn't resist)
> Way to go Barney!!!! Glad to hear you are back on the road!!
>
> Larry
>
> >>>>On 2/26/00 1:10 AM so and so (Barney Gaylord) said. (And I quote:)
>
> >Hi gang,
> >
> >70 degrees F and partly sunny near Chicago today, great time for a drive
> >with the top down. I finally got the MGA running again, having been off
> >the road since late November because of a very flat cam. This was by far
> >the longest stretch out of service since the (first) restoration was
> >finished in late 1986. So after months of negotiating for a new cam, new
> >timing parts that are sort of adjustable (or at least were supposed to
be),
> >then having to machine an offset cam key to get the valve timing to come
> >out right, and then doing some cleanup work in the engine bay, and
finally
> >fitting K&N air filters into the original MGA air cleaner housings (after
a
> >just a little tinkering), the little beast sings nicely once again.
> >
> >I had an interresting half hour drive around town with the idle set to
> >2500rpm to get the new cam properly run in. Having done nothing to the
> >bottom end and very little to the head I wasn't the least bit worried
about
> >the rest of the engine, so I had plenty of opportunity to shove it well
> >past the red line (several times). Hot diggity! It feels so good to
have
> >an MG that actually runs like an MG again. Now when's the next autocross
> >date? YEEHAA!!! Sorry, couldn't resist.
> >
> >A toast all around,
> >
> >Barney Gaylord
> >1958 MGA with a new attitude
> > http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
>
>
> Larry Macy
> 78 Midget
>
> Keep your top down and your chin up.
>
> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
> System Manager/Administrator
> Neuropsychiatry Section
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
> question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
>
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