After reading the Jag page disease list from David Littlefield's mail, I
feel that I am becoming a Hypochodriac. Especially the Shipwright's
disease. I just wanted to put a Pertronix ignition in, discovered ripped
steering boots when getting ready to time the new set up. Two weeks later,
new boots, got back to timing to discover my harmonic balance (pulley) has
rotated about halfway around the TDC point. Needed to set values anyway, so
might as well find and mark TDC on the top instead of the bottom. Easier to
see that way. Need new timing light, took wife to store and mentioned
father's day. Cleaned valve cover while off to set valves and put in new
gasket. Change oil and managed to spill all over my clean valve cover.
That's why I got that spay can of gunk anyway. Didn't short anything out.
Now back to resetting the toe-in. Is there and end in sight? I hope not,
'cause I'm having a ball.
Dave 72 B
-----Original Message-----
From: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
To: danray@bluegrass.net <danray@bluegrass.net>
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>; EMPcoLWE@aol.com
<EMPcoLWE@aol.com>
Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: "Project Drift"
>The syndrome is well-known in the medical community and is officially
>designated "Shipwright's disease." For these and other identified
>medical conditions see: http://www.jag-lovers.org/saloons/disease.html
>
>David Littlefield
>Houston, TX
>'62 MGA MkII
>'51 MGTD
>'88 Jaguar XJ-S
>
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:10:51 -0400 "danray" <danray@bluegrass.net>
>writes:
>> Eric:
>> In the military, we call it "Mission Creep" -- which is why we have
>> such
>> things as Bosnia/Kosovo. (Much larger scale, but your dollars
>> nonetheless
>> are being spent on a grand scale). I haven't had the pleasure,
>> yet...my time
>> will come, soon.
>> Also the reason why I'm driving my orange-peel, pitted,
>> warped-lidded B
>> until I get a homestead with a garage (or go to the
>> aforementioned)...the
>> temptation to start removing paint, sanding and replacing primered
>> lids is
>> very powerful...(come to the dark side, Dan...it is your
>> destiny...hhh
>> sss...hhh sss...)
>> Of course, removing the paint means replacing all the rubber...and
>> the
>> seals, Pulling the engine to do the compartment, and... oh....nooo!
>> That's
>> probably the point when the wife says she's pregnant. hehe.
>>
>> Dan
>> 73B
>>
>> > Hello List
>> > I'm in the middle of stripping the paint off my MGA. It didn't
>> start
>> out
>> > that way, but one thing lead to another, and...
>> > That's one question I have. My Step father calls this tendency
>> "project
>> > drift" and I was wondering if others have different names for it.
>>
>
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