- 1. Oil Filter study (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:25:15 -0800
- Oil Filters.... A friend of mine works for Lockheed. One of the engineers on his staff specialized in filtration. He had spent some time as a researcher for an oil company. He says Wix makes the best
- /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00030.html (7,331 bytes)
- 2. Re: reversing positive ground (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:55:16 -0800
- Years ago an owner of a 1946 or 47 Chevrolet pick-up truck was showing me an interesting factory equiped feature of the vehicle. The starter was activated by a floor switch. When pressed it would als
- /html/mg-t/2005-01/msg00055.html (8,152 bytes)
- 3. Louvers + Re: radiator cover (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:13:41 -0800
- In a trade journal on computer aided design a few years ago, there was an article on air flow testing. One of the examples was louvers tested for a hotrod builder. It turned out the louvers like we
- /html/mg-t/2004-12/msg00076.html (7,626 bytes)
- 4. RE: TD slowdown (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:40:05 -0700
- You might have the same brake lining I use to have. My TC's right rear wheel locked up in the middle of nowhere on the way to GoF Spokane many years ago. The shoes were just rebuilt with a 'soft' wo
- /html/mg-t/2004-10/msg00022.html (8,124 bytes)
- 5. Repairing stud holes (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:30:43 -0800
- Re: oversize exhaust manifold studs There is a thread insert called a Keensert that may be the ticket in repairing the oversized holes on your exhaust manifold. If the DPO drilled his oversize holes
- /html/mg-t/2001-02/msg00103.html (9,320 bytes)
- 6. Re: When should the carbon seal seal? (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:29:54 -0700
- There is a possibility the pulley is too short or spindle shaft too long. The fastening nut may be bottoming-out on the shaft. This would allow the shaft and impeller to move back and open up the sea
- /html/mg-t/2000-10/msg00013.html (7,355 bytes)
- 7. Re: XPAG Oil Pump Prime Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 07:53:43 -0700
- When I worked in an automotive machine shop the procedure was to pack the rebuilt engine's oil pump with vaseline. This was it's "prime". As far as losing prime I suspect a leak from the cap to pump
- /html/mg-t/2000-09/msg00147.html (6,799 bytes)
- 8. Bug sprayer brake bleeder (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:12:48 -0700
- A couple years ago I saw a great idea in Military Vehicles Magazine for bleeding brakes. Get a quart or 1/2 gallon pump-up (hudson type) bug sprayer at your local hardware store and plumb it, with sh
- /html/mg-t/2000-06/msg00150.html (7,210 bytes)
- 9. Bug sprayer aeration issue (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:06:22 -0700
- Good point. I have not tried the idea of using the bug sprayer. I did attempt to get the original article from the subscriber to the Military Vehicle Magazine before submitting the idea, but it appe
- /html/mg-t/2000-06/msg00153.html (7,522 bytes)
- 10. Hub Grease heat (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:06:17 -0800
- Our shop used to receive a newsletter form a national distributor of ball bearings. Each issue had tips on bearing care and I remember one such article was on packing hubs. Basically, it stated to no
- /html/mg-t/2000-03/msg00078.html (6,667 bytes)
- 11. Car radio / cell phone developement (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:49:36 -0800
- There is a company that is developing technology to monitor cell phone "movement" to determine traffic flow, or lack of, on streets and highways. It is based on a certain percentage of drivers on the
- /html/mg-t/2000-02/msg00028.html (6,936 bytes)
- 12. Clutch Roller Bearing in MG B (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:01:19 -0800
- Stewart...stay with the carbon clutch bearing. Like Syd I installed a clutch throw-out ball bearing in my 1967 MG B/GT. I was attempting to "bullet-proof" the drive train. Two weeks later there was a
- /html/mg-t/1999-12/msg00014.html (7,245 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Mg-t] Installing head (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:47:55 -0700
- Rick, Yes...use a light-type general purpose grease and a very thin coating; a thin coating as grease is incompressible and blobs and gobs may keep the head from seating 100%. This will help the gask
- /html/mg-t/2013-08/msg00031.html (8,409 bytes)
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