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Re: MG Midget Buying Advice

To: "Jon Paschke" <Jpaschke@bak.rr.com>
Subject: Re: MG Midget Buying Advice
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:11:20 -0400
Cc: "midget" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
ABSOLUTELY!!!!

AS far as I know I am the only person on the list that this ever 
happened to and I still do not see the need to pin the thrust washers. 
This got started someplace and has become the gospel truth.

I don't buy it.

Larry

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Jon Paschke wrote:

> Why do some people have to parrot this without more research. Every 
> Triumph
> motor based on this block all the way through the last TR6 six 
> cylinder used
> this thrust washer design. You don't hear those guys crying about 
> pinning
> them. Maybe you should tell them about this.
>
>> factory installation of the thrust washers on the crankshaft, which 
>> tend
>> to fall out
>> of place as wear takes place, with what can be expensive consequences.
>>
>> This last "fault" is a
>> major one for obvious reasons.
>>
>> Most listers have the thrust washers "pinned" or "locktited" securely
>> into place
>> the "next time around" so this "fault"
>> effectively fails to exist.
-- 

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

The bottom line: Sure, there's pain in adopting the Mac. But if I accept
that, I get to use a computer that works, and that pretty much does 
what I
expect and want a computer to do.
Stewart Alsop
FORTUNE.com
Monday, June 25, 2001

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