Yeah, thankfully my car isn't nicely painted, and the oil leaking from the
rocker cover has pretty much obliterated the gold color, anyway...
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 10/10/07 9:28 AM, Dodd, Kelvin at doddk@mossmotors.com wrote:
> The factory offered rebuilt components on the replacement/aftermarket.
> These were later sold under the Unipart banner.
>
> My understanding is as follows (please enlighten me if I get anything
> wrong):
>
> Gold Seal assemblies were assembled using all new wearing components.
>
> Silver Seal assemblies were assembled with inspected used components.
>
>
>
> The components were (you guessed it) painted in either gold or silver
> (pretty ugly) to indicate the quality.
>
>
> Can you imagine opening the bonnet of your nicely painted car to see a
> badly painted gold engine sitting there?
>
>
>
>
>
> Kelvin Dodd
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mgs-bounces+doddk=mossmotors.com@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-
>> bounces+doddk=mossmotors.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of 1971-red-mgb
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:04 AM
>> To: MG LIST
>> Subject: [Mgs] gold sealed engine
>>
>> I was reading up on MGB's the other day and someone mentioned a "gold
>> sealed
>> engine" for the uninitiated what does that mean?
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