- 21. Re: Reassembly, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 09:28:37 EST
- Well, this is my opinion, but I wouldn't use Loctite everywhere on a race engine, know that I'd be tearing it down the following winter anyway. It seems some people go overboard on their use of cert
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00105.html (8,237 bytes)
- 22. Re: MGB Engine Rebuild (2) (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 10:19:51 EST
- You lucky dog. I managed to not be able to talk my way out of a case scheduled to run till the end of March. I've thought about vomitting on the shoes of the prosecutor ... wait, this isn't chunksty
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00106.html (10,369 bytes)
- 23. Re: "Whitworth" (Cresent) Wrenches (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 09:55:31 EST
- [ my drawing ] Ok, as someone else pointed out to me, it isn't really "less of the load", it's keeping the load parallel to the direction of travel of the sliding jaw. In turning the wrench, you want
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00133.html (8,399 bytes)
- 24. Re: MGB Engine Rebuild (2) [really tools] (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 10:11:25 EST
- The context of the original statement went away. Scott Fisher was talking about owning 2 good crescent wrenches, and commented that in the garage circles we run in they're called "Whitworth wrenches
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00134.html (7,410 bytes)
- 25. Re: Are "Whitworth" wrenches ambidextrous? (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 19:53:30 EST
- Thanks for saying what I was trying to say, nad giving it another reason as well. I wasn't feeling terribly articulate when I was writing that this morning. andy
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00152.html (6,636 bytes)
- 26. Re: MGB Engine Rebuild (3) (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 11:12:40 EST
- Use "assembly lube" when putting the engine together. Use it early, use it often. Use it on cam bearings, cam lobes, lifters, gudgeon bearings, rod bearings, main bearings and rocker assembly. Use i
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00199.html (11,246 bytes)
- 27. Re: pulling engines... (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 11:23:26 EST
- I've just used a chain across the tall rocker studs (the ones used for holding the valve cover down, also). Scott Fisher and I used the rocker shaft once, on a head we determined was valuable as a co
- /html/british-cars/1991-01/msg00200.html (6,783 bytes)
- 28. Re: definative Midget book? (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 09:57:34 EST
- Scott, I checked my old mail, and the tools needed were clearly the 18G 389 and 18G 389(B). How you could make such a terribly heinous mistake is beyond my comprehension. Bentley, in some cases (suc
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00086.html (7,997 bytes)
- 29. Re: New to the list (score: 1)
- Author: banta@Eng.Sun.COM
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 90 10:11:14 EST
- How I would go about getting the thing running: Get a Bentley manual on the car. The Bentley & Haynes, combined, will provide you enough information for anything you want to do to the car mechanical
- /html/british-cars/1990-12/msg00149.html (9,302 bytes)
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